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Tonight marks the final stretch of the Canadiens' training camp. All the players still with the team at this stage of camp will travel to Quebec City today for tonight's game against the Senators. They won't all be playing, of course, but they'll be in 418, as the saying goes, andthe team will remain in Quebec City after tonight's game until Friday PM. It remains to be seen what the players will do other than skate in the morning at the Centre Vidéotron... It's not hard to imagine that the Habs will follow in the Sens' footsteps by taking part in a few activities in the Quebec City community…The end of camp for the Habs also means the start of camp for the Rocket. Pascal Vincent and his men will conduct the Rocket's first official practice sessions this morning at Place Bell in Laval. An intra-squad game is scheduled for tomorrow, while preparatory games will be played in Ontario on Friday and Saturday (in Belleville). We spent the summer wondering if it was October Yet? Tomorrow is October 1st!#35 players – including Filip Mesar, Sean Farrell, Joshua Roy, Alex Belzile, Laurent Dauphin, Jared Davidson and Jacob Fowler – will take part in the Rocketcamp. Looking at the list of invited players, it's obvious that the Rocket will once again be very competitive in 2025-26.
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– Rocket de Laval (@RocketLaval) September 29, 2025
Especially since Adam Engstrom, Florian Xhekaj and Owen Beck are expected to be sent back to Laval in the next few days.
Reinbacher, the team's fifth overall pick just over two years ago, was injured (again) during a pre-season game against the Maple Leafs, this time to his hand. If the doctors' prognosis is good, Reinbacher could play on October 24 in Rochester, by which time he would have missed only five games, which would not be catastrophic, we agree. Especially since he's currently able to keep his cardio with his hand in a cast or splint. It's always easier to stay in shape when you have an arm or hand injury, rather than a lower-body one.#Except that an employee of a Québécois medical establishment – and reader of the site – wrote to me over the weekend to say the following:
“If David Reinbacher is ever able to completely heal a metacarpal fracture in four weeks, it will be quite a medical surprise. A simple fracture without displacement, which is the best possible diagnosis here, means three to six weeks of immobilization. After that, if all goes well, it's a minimum of two weeks' rehabilitation. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm willing to bet that Reinbacher will miss more than 4 weeks of activity. It'll be at least 5 to 6 weeks. According
to this health professional, Reinbacher is more likely to miss ten or so regular games, rather than five. Nothing catastrophic, but with the accumulation of missed games in his case, that would be far from ideal. That said, I'm not going to bet a cent on David Reinbacher's health, whether our health reader likes it or not. content-ads]Note that I can understand the Habs unveiling a fixed timetable of just four weeks rather than saying four to six, or four to eight weeks. Or even six weeks, that's it!Who else but me is going to count the days and weeks to see if Reinbacher according to the Habs' estimates? Theonly thing the Canadiens didn't see coming in this case is that if Reinbacher isn't in uniform with the Rocket by October 24, they'll have to deal with headlines like: Delay in David Reinbacher's recovery, or Catastrophe and MAJOR turnaround in Reinbacher's case. Except that these second and third titles won't be published on DLC; they'll be published on sites that don't respect you as readers.
