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Coming over
- Updated: May 18, 2016
MONTREAL – After spending the last two seasons in the pro ranks overseas, Martin Reway is ready to bring his game to North America.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Canadiens announced that they’d agreed to terms with the 21-year-old forward on a three-year, two-way contract through the 2018-19 campaign.
The signing came just one day after the Prague native and his Slovakian contingent wrapped up preliminary-round play at the World Hockey Championship in Russia where they earned a fifth-place finish in Group B, but failed to advance to the quarterfinals.
The Canadiens’ fourth-round selection – 116th overall – back in 2013, Reway was eager to get the deal done and begin preparing for his first full season on this side of the pond since plying his trade with the QMJHL’s Gatineau Olympiques between 2012 and 2014.
“I’m really happy to be joining the Canadiens. It’s a great day in my career, for sure. All of my family worked hard to help me when I was younger, and I always had this dream of signing my first NHL contract. Now, it came true. I’m happy that it all paid off,” said Reway, who started last season with Sparta Praha of the Czech Extraliga, before joining Switzerland’s National League A squad Fribourg-Gotteron HC in mid-November.
“I want to play in the NHL. Of course I want to make the Canadiens, but I’m pretty sure that this year I’m going to play in North America no matter what happens [at training camp]. If I don’t make the team, I’m going to go to the American Hockey League [in Saint John’s] and work hard there to give myself a chance to play for the Canadiens again,” added Reway, who collected 73 points (22 goals, 51 assists) in 67 regular season games since making his pro debut with Sparta Praha in 2014-15.
Reway believes the move to Switzerland late last year will pay dividends upon his arrival in Montreal, which could come as soon as early July for Development Camp on the South Shore. It afforded him the chance to experience a playing style that he believes more closely …
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