{"id":937862,"date":"2026-10-18T17:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937862\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T17:42:15","slug":"jacob-fowler-gets-start-for-canadiens-with-oliver-kapanen-david-reinbacher-in-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937862\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Fowler gets start for Canadiens with Oliver Kapanen, David Reinbacher in lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jacob Fowler will start in goal for the Canadiens on Saturday at the Bell Centre against the Buffalo Sabres (7 p.m., SNE, TVA Sports) while forward Oliver Kapanen and defenceman David Reinbacher will make their season debuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fowler has a 2-1-0 record this season, along with a 1.91 goals-against average and a .906 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kapanen missed the first seven games this season with a lower-body injury after posting 22-15-37 totals as a rookie last season while playing in all 82 games. He will take Owen Beck\u2019s spot in the lineup and play on a line with Kirby Dach and Jake Evans.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1018-spt-habs-8411_305815427.jpg\" alt=\"Two hockey players skate during a pre-game warmup. \" class=\"wp-image-100311245\"  \/>Canadiens\u2019 Oliver Kapanen (91) and teammate David Reinbacher (64) take part in warmups in their regular season debut in a game against the Buffalo Sabres in Montreal on Saturday.   Evan Buhler \/ Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reinbacher was called up from the AHL\u2019s Laval Rocket on Wednesday after posting 0-2-2 totals in four games but didn\u2019t get in the lineup that night in Washington. The Capitals won that game 5-4 with goalie Jakub Dobes allowing five goals on 24 shots, dropping his record to 1-2-1 with a 4.63 GAA and a .842 save percentage. Reinbacher will take Adam Engstrom\u2019s spot in the lineup and be paired with Arber Xhekaj. Defenceman Mike Matheson will miss his third straight game with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s great to be back,\u201d Kapanen told reporters after taking part in Saturday\u2019s optional morning skate at the Bell Centre. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to watch games in the stands and you can\u2019t play and can\u2019t skate. So it feels good to be back on the ice. \u2026 It feels good now and I\u2019m ready to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard,\u201d Kapanen added about missing the start of the season. \u201cYou were healthy at (training camp) and when the season starts you get a little bit injured and you can\u2019t do much about it. But I\u2019m excited to be back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will be the second game in five days between the Canadiens and Sabres at the Bell Centre. The Canadiens <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/hidden-game-hockey-canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">won 4-3 in a shootout Tuesday night<\/a> with Fowler stopping 13 of the 16 shots he faced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Canadiens and Sabres will meet two more times this season with both games in Buffalo on Dec. 18 and Jan. 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StuCowan1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">x.com\/StuCowan1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Fowler will start in goal for the Canadiens on Saturday at the Bell Centre against the Buffalo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-937862","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\/937862","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=937862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}