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LW Patrik Laine - Tappara, FEL (2016 Draft)

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not a very entertaining game for sure but the bolded one are interesting case
0:55 a pass
1:21 pass
1:47 goal! (shift starts at 1:17)
4:00 fail hahaha
4:38 had a good look
5:04 shouldve passed to him!
5:45 little rush
10:14 turn over...throws right into the middle for a scoring chance
11:04 nice chance there. got a shot through in that tight spot
11:10 look at that release!
11:15 shootout attempt
 
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Loffer said:
Good reply. And he surely means it. Wouldn't be surprised though if he's been adviced to give that spesific answer to that spesific queation, as well.
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Yeah, he has also publicly said he sought the help of psychologist for his problems and even used to call him/her after every game. But he also added he hasn't needed to call in a while anymore. And this happened last season, I think.

People need to remember he was 16 years old that time and oh boy, how much my life would suck if I was still being judged from the things I did or said at that age.
 
Im the Vatman said:
Yeah, he has also publicly said he sought the help of psychologist for his problems and even used to call him/her after every game. But he also added he hasn't needed to call in a while anymore. And this happened last season, I think.

People need to remember he was 16 years old that time and oh boy, how much my life would suck if I was still being judged from the things I did or said at that age.
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I don't think anyone wants him to judge him forever for things that happened when he was 16, it's just amusing, to me at least, to hear him talk about the incident at 17 like it was ages ago and how he is a different person now. I'm really glad he sought and got help for his issues, though.
 
Periwinkle said:
Great wrister on that goal!

They ran a small profile on him on the sports news (really, it could have been a lot better, not much content to it) but he was asked about the middle finger/death threath incident and his answer was that he was younger then, he doesn't recognize that person anymore...

it was a year ago :laugh:

Good for him for maturing, though.
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This isn't too uncommon for teens though to mature that much within a year. I have personal experience from it aswell

I really don't see that incident as anything worth emphasising anymore.
 
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Laine just cemented his status as the 1st overall come the the draft day. The game is over, guys. If it ever was not. - Disperse! :yo:
 
Was taken out of Ilomaki's wing in ot but i wouldn't want Laine there either with that skating.. Still losing way too many battles cause of mediocre skating. He needs to get better at skating before i place him with Matthews and Pulju.
 
agreed in this that line should be nr 1 on draft. if he score many points during season there should not be question if he nr one. this guy if scores many points also so big in size and very skilled and very fast and very atletic and very and so on..

so please dont go and say some canadian is nr one. if laine not nr one when/if scored many many points then only beaucause laine is from fin. get rid of nationality. laine if scored many many points deserve the 1st line spot at NHL team very soon and not anyboty else. remember first liners always score many points but if superstar put in 3rd line corner then stardom not shining. thanks
 
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Tuomaz said:
Was taken out of Ilomaki's wing in ot but i wouldn't want Laine there either with that skating.. Still losing way too many battles cause of mediocre skating. He needs to get better at skating before i place him with Matthews and Pulju.
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I wouldn't call it "taken out/demoted" when he gets to play with Jani Lajunen as his center in OT.

And in my opinion Laine is actually one of the best for Tappara in 3vs3 because of the skill set he has and he has more room to work with it. 3vs3 is not all about speed, if you can protect the puck well which Laine excels at with his big body, I would say it's really hard to take the puck away from him. At least against Lukko he did well in OT also.
 
hockeygrandpa said:
agreed in this that line should be nr 1 on draft. if he score many points during season there should not be question if he nr one. this guy if scores many points also so big in size and very skilled and very fast and very atletic and very and so on..

so please dont go and say some canadick is nr one. if laine not nr one when/if scored many many points then only beaucause laine is from fin. get rid of nationality. laine if scored many many points deserve the 1st line spot at NHL team very soon and not anyboty else. remember first liners always score many points but if superstar put in 3rd line corner then stardom not shining. thanks
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Go back to bed grandpa.. although I haven't heard anyone say that a "canadick" is going 1OA, it's absolutely ridiculous to put Laine as the consensus number one and crying that if people don't agree it's because he's Finnish? That's embarrassing..
 
hockeygrandpa said:
agreed in this that line should be nr 1 on draft. if he score many points during season there should not be question if he nr one. this guy if scores many points also so big in size and very skilled and very fast and very atletic and very and so on..

so please dont go and say some canadick is nr one. if laine not nr one when/if scored many many points then only beaucause laine is from fin. get rid of nationality. laine if scored many many points deserve the 1st line spot at NHL team very soon and not anyboty else. remember first liners always score many points but if superstar put in 3rd line corner then stardom not shining. thanks
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This is solid and well articulated point of view. In my opinion, many points is not enough. But I agree with you, many many points deserve 1st line spot.
 
he should easy play world hockey championchips at spring next time. lets see. may many points during season and at spring of course available before even the draft. he´s atletics are good enough today and running better during season of course. i can clearly see him banging goals an opponents at rink. very high skilled already. hope coaches of fin feel alright during spring an not put best players at corners or outside team as usual :handclap:
 
hockeygrandpa said:
he should easy play world hockey championchips at spring next time. lets see. may many points during season and at spring of course available before even the draft. he´s atletics are good enough today and running better during season of course. i can clearly see him banging goals an opponents at rink. very high skilled already. hope coaches of fin feel alright during spring an not put best players at corners or outside team as usual :handclap:
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Honestly i'm just gonna join the hype and say yes. This year Finland's problem was goal scoring; Laine's the ideal solution.
 
hockeygrandpa said:
he should easy play world hockey championchips at spring next time. lets see. may many points during season and at spring of course available before even the draft. he´s atletics are good enough today and running better during season of course. i can clearly see him banging goals an opponents at rink. very high skilled already. hope coaches of fin feel alright during spring an not put best players at corners or outside team as usual :handclap:
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Only problem to get Laine participating Finland, in men's world championships next spring.
Is that Finland's head coach Kari Jalonen, and team management ( GM Jere Lehtinen and his assistants) select's old star players in the team.
Whose old merits are the most valuable, than young goal-scorer prospect. ( Laine)
 
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teravaineSAROS said:
Honestly i'm just gonna join the hype and say yes. This year Finland's problem was goal scoring; Laine's the ideal solution.
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I agree with you.

But problem is that there's every spring the same Kalervo Kummola's sauna-club buddies ( Immonen,Pesonen,Aaltonen,Kontiola,Pihlström, T Ruutu) into team.
And their old merits are the most valuable, than young future superstar prospect.( Laine)
Who has killers instincts for goal-scoring.
 
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If he can shoot like that.. Oh boy.. He can score goals in the NHL.
So - only things holding Laine back from first overall, are skating, defence, maturity and ability to do something else besides just protect puck because of his size. Guys in NHL are bigger, so he won't be as big a fish as he is in the Liiga pond.
But all of Laines weaknesses or areas of development, are stuff you can actually work on. So he's a diamond in the rough, and being September, this means he is a legitimate candidate for first overall.

Anything can still happen of course, he can fail to progress or he will start filling the rafters with 30 NHL scouts..
 
Laine's skating seems to have improved quite remarkably. It's still not a strenght, but at least it's now acceptable. About Barkov's level.
 

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