David Reinbacher: 'My goodness, he really needs to develop properly.'

It's especially when you look at the players selected after Reinbacher in the 2022 draft that you realize just how much talent was still on the board when the Canadiens took the stage to announce their pick of the Austrian.

Ryan Leonard, Matvei Michkov, Zach Benson, Matthew Wood, Callum Ritchie, Gabriel Perreault…

These guys are already established as regulars in the NHL and as players who have already demonstrated their respective potential in the world's best league.

You can't criticize the Canadiens' pick at this point, but you can still say that there are other players from that draft who are already doing very well in the NHL.

And Reinbacher still seems far from that stage in his development… 

We need to be patient with him, but we still have to hope that his development goes in the right direction over the next few years.

Because when you select a player with the 5th overall pick, you always expect that player to help you for several years…

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