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Reinhart thinks he is NHL ready thanks to Team Canada WC camp exp:

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=721226

Once that sinks in and Reinhart goes about preparing for his first NHL training camp, he will draw from the experience he had in early May with Canada's world hockey championship team. The Kootenay Ice forward thinks he's ready for the pros because he joined Team Canada for its training camp and exhibition game against Switzerland in Zurich.

"I got a little taste of it at the international level for a couple days in Switzerland," he said Friday at the NHL's annual scouting combine. "It was pretty amazing to see how I handled practice one compared to practice three and really picked up the pace and felt comfortable pretty quick out there."

Reinhart had to think quick well before he ever stepped onto the ice. He got the call from Hockey Canada on Friday night and needed to decide whether to get on a plane to Europe Saturday afternoon.

"It was a pretty quick turnaround to kind of drop everything and go over there," the 18-year-old centre said. "It was a tough decision at the time but really turned out to be a positive experience. It's really paying off right now."

Reinhart didn't have much more to prove. He had represented Canada the under-18 world championships twice, winning gold in 2013, and then was on this past year's world-junior team.

Named WHL player of the year for putting up 105 points in 60 games with the Ice, Reinhart is third among North American skaters in NHL Central Scouting's final rankings.

But it didn't hurt Reinhart to show what he could do surrounded by players who will soon be his peers. He already knew Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly, Flames centre Sean Monahan and Canucks defenceman Jason Garrison, but being on the ice with them in that environment was a different story.

"He didn't look out of place," Team Canada coach Dave Tippett said in a phone interview Friday afternoon. "He carried himself like a pro player. He picked up the things we were trying to do in the drills very well. The biggest thing you could tell, and it's probably a little bit because of his upbringing — he wasn't intimidated by the situation at all and just jumped in there and played."

Even though Reinhart was an extra forward for the exhibition game, Tippett liked how he made the most out of his eight or nine minutes of ice time. Had an injury occurred before the team left Zurich, there was some discussion about adding Reinhart to the team, which would've made him the youngest by two months over Nathan MacKinnon.