David Reinbacher will not be joining the Rocket on the road

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Crédit:

David Reinbacher’s last game with the Rocket was on March 21. He hasn’t played since then, and it will be a while before he returns.

At least, the Rocket announced that the defenseman did not accompany the team on their road trip this week. And no, it’s not because he was recalled by the Canadiens.

Note that the Rocket also says Reinbacher is being “evaluated daily”, which isn’t very clear.

The Rocket plays tonight in Manitoba and will play a second game in as many days tomorrow, again against the Moose.

There are also two games scheduled for the weekend (Saturday and Sunday) against the Abbotsford Canucks. Then, the Rocket will play on Friday, April 11 (in Rochester) and Saturday, April 12 (in Syracuse), but Reinbacher could possibly return to the game on April 11 because there are four days between the game against the Canucks and the one against the Americans.

This means the defenseman should miss at least the next four games of his team. Again, we know the Canadiens organization wants to be cautious in his case, but we don’t know what’s going on with him.

And it’s normal to worry about his health status. Did he aggravate his knee injury?

David Reinbacher returned to the game on February 19 and has played eight games this season with the Rocket.

And since his return, the Canadiens’ affiliate team has played 16 games.

This means the defenseman has only participated in 50% of his team’s games since he was given the green light by the doctors to start playing again.

What’s unclear is that neither the Rocket nor the Canadiens are sharing concrete news about Reinbacher.

The organization wants to respect “the protocol” in his case, but still: it’s really unclear right now when it comes to Reinbacher.

We need to pay attention to this case.

The defenseman was seriously injured at the start of the season, he returned to the game faster than expected, and now it seems more complicated.

Hoping it’s not too serious.

In Overtime

– Adam Engström won’t play tonight either. But he is on the road trip, unlike Reinbacher.

– Good point.

– Oops!