{"id":936758,"date":"2026-10-17T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936758\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T19:30:09","slug":"canadiens-reinbacher-kapanen-to-make-season-debuts-against-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936758\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens&#8217; Reinbacher, Kapanen to make season debuts against Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defenceman <a data-player=\"27132b9c-dd3a-414e-b632-87094f6dd4d5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/david-reinbacher\/27132b9c-dd3a-414e-b632-87094f6dd4d5\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">David Reinbacher<\/a> and centre <a data-player=\"e01e3a2e-7c20-4441-82df-e112a4e18418\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/oliver-kapanen\/e01e3a2e-7c20-4441-82df-e112a4e18418\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oliver Kapanen<\/a> have been inserted into the lineup ahead of the team&#8217;s game against the Buffalo Sabres, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens recalled Reinbacher from the AHL&#8217;s Laval Rocket ahead of the second half of a back-to-back against the Washington Capitals on Wednesday, but he did not appear in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal made the move after Mike Matheson missed Tuesday&#8217;s game with a lower-body injury that has been classified as day-to-day. The 21-year-old Reinbacher will replace Adam Engstrom in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 fifth-overall pick played in just two NHL games last season, recording one assist. He is set to be paired with Arber Xhekaj.<\/p>\n<p>Kapanen will re-enter the lineup after being sidelined with a lower-body injury to start the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old was a key part of the team last season, recording 22 goals and 37 points across 82 games. He will draw into the lineup in place of Owen Beck.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Fowler will start in net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defenceman David Reinbacher and centre Oliver Kapanen have been inserted into the lineup ahead of the team&#8217;s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-936758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}