Habs Daily: Laine And Reinbacher Updates, Dach’s Fight, Waivers

Here are the Montreal Canadiens news items, highlights, and stories you may have missed on Tuesday.

Montreal Canadiens News

The day started with some unfortunate news, as top prospect David Reinbacher will be forced to miss four to five months of action due to a left knee injury that required surgery. He’s still very young, but given how poorly his Draft+1 season unfolded, missing the majority of his Draft+2 season is concerning to say the least. As for the impact of the injury on the lineup, it opens the door to one the possibility Adam Engstrom or Logan Mailloux could end up starting the season with the Canadiens. [Impact Of Reinbacher Injury On Canadiens Roster Construction]

Tuesday night’s game was another of the crazy-town banana-pants variety, featuring several fights, injuries, shenanigans, tomfoolery, fiddle faddle, some tommyrot, codswallop, a little tarradiddle, jiggery-pokery, fiddlestickery, and general humbuggery. Kirby Dach ended up fighting supertroll Ridly Greig, while Arber Xhekaj was once again kicked out for retaliating after a dangerous play by an opponent. When the teams actually played a little hockey, defenceman Jayden Struble stood out, a continuation of his strong play throughout camp. Oh, and the special teams were rotten, but that’s not really news, is it? [Canadiens Instant Recap And Highlights: Angry Dach, Furious Xhekaj, and Solid Struble]

In an attempt to lift spirits following the Reinbacher diagnosis, we discussed three areas that should still excite Canadiens fans as we prepare to start the 2024-25 season, including phenom Lane Hutson. [Three Reasons To Still Be Excited About Upcoming Canadiens Season]

The Canadiens proceeded to announce Patrik Laine would only miss two to three months, and would not require surgery. The news was met with an avalanche of happiness from Habs fans, which goes to show how much they’ve endured in the last few years. [Canadiens Receive Good News Regarding Patrik Laine Injury]

27 players were placed on waivers by their respective teams on Tuesday afternoon. [NHL Players Available To Montreal Canadiens On Waivers, Oct 1]

National Hockey Now Network

Tensions are starting to boil over between the Boston Bruins and restricted free agent goalie Jeremy Swayman. While Swayman has missed out on the first two weeks of Bruins training camp without a contract, team president and alternate governor Cam Neely openly expressed his frustration on Monday with the first public disclosure of official details made by either side of the ongoing contract negotiations. [Boston Bruins]

The Washington CApitals defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets in Nationwide Arena by a final score of 3-2. There were a few names in particular who stood out on the stat sheet for the Capitals. [Washington Capitals]

This is certainly going to be a hot button topic that you could apply to nearly half of the NHL, if not more. However, when the Boston Bruins and Jeremy Swayman’s camp exchanged blows publicly on Monday, it perhaps changed the landscape of their negotiations for good. As a result, general manager Tom Fitzgerald should pursue the 25-year-old goaltender in a New Jersey Devils trade. [New Jersey Devils]