{"id":210466,"date":"2025-09-26T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/210466\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:08:25","slug":"dobson-reinbacher-guhle-rifai-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/210466\/","title":{"rendered":"Dobson, Reinbacher, Guhle, Rifai, Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things are not going well for the Montreal Canadiens\u2019 defense in their preseason contest against the Toronto Maple Leafs this evening. After failing to appear on the bench for the third period of tonight\u2019s game, the Canadiens\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0that recently\u00a0acquired<\/a>\u00a0Noah Dobson<\/a>\u00a0will not return, without specifying any injuries.<\/p>\n

Shortly after, Senior Editor of RG Media, Marco D\u2019Amico, shared<\/a> that defenseman David Reinbacher<\/a> had also gone to the dressing room with an apparent injury. Each of these injuries comes on the heels of Sportsnet\u2019s Eric Engels report<\/a> from earlier, that defenseman Kaiden Guhle<\/a> was held out of tonight\u2019s contest for maintenance purposes.<\/p>\n

In all fairness, there were no specific injuries alluded to in any of the updates, and teams are quicker to pull players in preseason due to precautionary reasons. Still, it is cause for some concern as Montreal ramps up for the 2025-26 campaign. Despite earning a playoff spot last season, the Canadiens learned there\u2019s little wiggle room in postseason eligibility in the Atlantic Division. Fortunately, even if there are mild injury concerns to start the new season, the Canadiens only have two matchups against postseason teams from a year ago in October.<\/p>\n

Additional injury notes:<\/p>\n

On the flip side of tonight\u2019s contest, the Maple Leafs are also dealing with injury concerns on their blue line. During the game, Toronto announced<\/a> that Marshall Rifai<\/a> was removed due to an upper-body injury. Unlike his opponent counterparts, it was unlikely that Rifai would have cracked the Maple Leafs\u2019 opening night roster regardless of availability. The Beaconsfield, Quebec native spent all of last year with the AHL\u2019s Toronto Marlies, scoring three goals and 13 points in 67 contests.
\nMoving to another Original Six organization, any chance for the Chicago Blackhawks to gauge forward Joey Anderson<\/a>\u2019s potential for a depth role has passed. Earlier today, Charlie Roumeliotis of WGN Radio reported<\/a> that Anderson underwent a procedure for a chronic issue, which will cost him the rest of the preseason. Despite playing in 18 games for the Blackhawks last year, Anderson had long odds of making Chicago\u2019s opening night roster, spending much of last season as an assistant captain with the AHL\u2019s Rockford IceHogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things are not going well for the Montreal Canadiens\u2019 defense in their preseason contest against the Toronto Maple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[265,96,3566,5,402,18725,1748,3083,264,21,5147,4,778,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-210466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-canadiens","9":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","10":"tag-david-reinbacher","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-injury","13":"tag-joey-anderson","14":"tag-kaiden-guhle","15":"tag-marshall-rifai","16":"tag-montreal","17":"tag-montreal-canadiens","18":"tag-montrealcanadiens","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-noah-dobson","21":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115270523663566968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}