Patrik Laine ignited Montreal’s offence with 12 goals in his first 18 games with the Canadiens, but has been held scoreless in six straight and was benched in the team’s loss to the Ducks on Sunday. Is the honeymoon phase over for Laine and the Habs? Domino’s That’s Hockey examines.
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Laine is stuck with Dach and Newhook, he’s outproduced both in less than half the games they played. The vast majority of points he got were without them because they are playing that badly.
Yes, defensively Laine is lackluster, which is why he shouldn’t be put with two other guys that are also atrocious in defense (-27 and -14).
MTL needs to make some moves to finally have a 2nd line worth the name, Demidov will eventually be there, but that still leaves 1 spot open in trade, ideally a true 2 center.
He thinks he's better than he really is.
Who could have seen this coming? Hah. I love the guy but he’s a liability 5 on 5 all too often. 11 of 18 points on the PP is exactly who he has always been.
Toronto Maple Leafs are on their 9th one night stand(this is the year), but we know, in fact, this is not their year.
Great job guys and Cheryl. 👍
I think Evan’s would be a better center for Laine because at least he plays with some imagination which Dach and Newhook seem to lack. 🤔
Laine is a one trick pony and will always be a minus player. The Jets have done fantastic without him. The Jets traded Laine for Dubois and then traded Dubois for Iafollo, Villardi, and Kapari who play every game.
The guy with the terrible haircut is exactly right
One thing I don't like about Laine he's hesitant and kinda lazy . You can tell his heart isn't in the game lately
who is this dolt Frankie?
Hockey is about skating… the man isn’t skating just waving his stick around. Don’t know what to say.
Trade Laine to Vancouver for Hoglander and a 1st, retain 50% salary. Montreal needs more picks, Vancouver needs a winger or a center to add scoring power and make up for the loss of JT Miller.
Complete idiott. Always has been, always will be.
Trade em back to Winnipeg. Solves 2 problems at once
This is so shameful how unfairly patrick laine got treated. Please explain to us how is patrick laine suppose to perform when the center Kerby dach only got 9 assistance in 52 games? And how about Alex newhook third guy on the trios only got 5 assistance in 52 games with 9 goals???those are the players that patrick laine is forced to play with? If this is not abusing patrick laine then tell us what that is?
Stopped watching when the DEI hire started talking.
Told ya montreal fans lmfao 🤣
"Montreal has a standard that all players are expected to meet"… But I thought he was playing bad.
Reality has sunk in in Montreal town.
I like Laine when he play hard and is on his game. Saying this, teams he played for complained when he didn't put the effort and his lack of commitment at times