Patrick Laine injured in pre-season game after knee on knee

[Edgelord]

It's a flukey injury, I give it that. The response Pare gave was cowardly. You know if something like that happens in your opponents home that someone's knocking on your door. If you're trying to make it into the league, the worst thing you can do is turtle. You fight back. Hell, you might even win and look at what that does for you back in Toronto.

Make a name for yourself and the dignity of the sweater you got on and stand your ground.

And FWIW what WiFi did was absolutely deliberate, made moreso apparent because he kept his gloves on. He wasn't out to hurt Pare, he was out to send a message. Pare should have dropped gloves and fought him.

yup, not answering the bell is a bad look

 

[Cap'n Flavour]

It's a flukey injury, I give it that. The response Pare gave was cowardly. You know if something like that happens in your opponents home that someone's knocking on your door. If you're trying to make it into the league, the worst thing you can do is turtle. You fight back. Hell, you might even win and look at what that does for you back in Toronto.

Make a name for yourself and the dignity of the sweater you got on and stand your ground.

Pare was never going to make the Leafs roster and if turtling like that gets Xhekaj a long suspension into the regular season (which it should) then that's more than he ever would have contributed as a player.

 

[swiftwin]

Yes. Clean hits. Try again.

False. He had multiple high and late hits.

 

[PatrickEaves]

100% correct. Look, we can all say from the sidelines that what Xhekaj did was awful and could have had horrendous consequences. He deserves to be suspended for it. But if you're an AHL plug throwing cheap shots at NHL stars (yes I know Laine has struggled but still), and then refuse to fight as other teams want retribution, you deserve what is coming. If you don't have respect for the game, don't step on the ice.

The hit was already dirty as shit, but Pare trying to weasel out of the fight and forcing Xhekaj to do this makes me hate Pare even more. Man up and face the consequences of your action, if you can't do that, get the hell of the ice.

100% correct. Look, we can all say from the sidelines that what Bertuzzi did was awful and could have had horrendous consequences. He deserves to be suspended for it. But if you're an AHL plug throwing cheap shots at NHL stars (Naslund), and then refuse to fight as other teams want retribution, you deserve what is coming. If you don't have respect for the game, don't step on the ice.

The hit was already dirty as shit, but Moore trying to weasel out of the fight and forcing Bertuzzi to do this makes me hate Moore even more. Man up and face the consequences of your action, if you can't do that, get the hell of the ice.

 

[swiftwin]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1571534290370035712

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Disgusting hits from Xhekaj when he was a no-name rookie in pre-season.

That's the way the NHL works. If Xhekaj made the NHL because of his willingness to throw dirty hits in pre-season. You can't blame Pare for doing the same.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

i dont wanna go through 13 pages, is Laine ok?

 

[SensontheRush]

Lol, Laine needs to learn to protest himself. Jump out the way of that hit or dump it in earlier and go get it instead of stick landing betweeen 2 guys with a super wide base. No wonder he's had injury issues his whole career.

That’s on him.

Laine was clearing by Pare, that's why Pare had to use his knee to stop him. Pare was caught drifting the other way and lost body position. It's pretty clear what happened.

 

[swiftwin]

i dont wanna go through 13 pages, is Laine ok?

Judge for yourself

 

[BlueSeal]

Pare was never going to make the Leafs roster and if turtling like that gets Xhekaj a long suspension into the regular season (which it should) then that's more than he ever would have contributed as a player.

Pare gets to live with turtling like a coward, wearing a Leafs sweater, which will last longer than any suspension Xhekaj gets.

 

[Edgelord]

Judge for yourself
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Its not even a knee, its more shin on shin and Laine's knee gave out

 

[miscs75]

And on the ice.

The 2 shifts a game he gets, yes

 

[Empoleon8771]

100% correct. Look, we can all say from the sidelines that what Bertuzzi did was awful and could have had horrendous consequences. He deserves to be suspended for it. But if you're an AHL plug throwing cheap shots at NHL stars (Naslund), and then refuse to fight as other teams want retribution, you deserve what is coming. If you don't have respect for the game, don't step on the ice.

The hit was already dirty as shit, but Moore trying to weasel out of the fight and forcing Bertuzzi to do this makes me hate Moore even more. Man up and face the consequences of your action, if you can't do that, get the hell of the ice.

Subbing in the Bertuzzi/Moore situation doesn't at all change my mind at all with that. And frankly you can easily argue that statement is just as applicable to Moore as it was to Pare here.

 

[Martin Skoula]

Pare gets to live with turtling like a coward, wearing a Leafs sweater, which will last longer than any suspension Xhekaj gets.

Oh no, not the 30th forward on the depth chart!!

 

[Leaf Fans]

The 2 shifts a game he gets, yes

And the ones after his first two shifts.

 

[Oilslick941611]

I don't want to go off on an unrelated tangent. Both Edmonton and Toronto have multiple other star players and good foundations and would likely still be top 8 teams in their conferences.

The main point is comparing the loss of Laine to the loss of McDavid/Matthews is patently absurd. And if having Laine is the only chance of competing, your team is not going to be competing.

especially since he's played 82 games twice in his career and almost 7 years ago and regularly misses between 30-40 games a year

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Judge for yourself
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ooooh, ok

 

[CapSpace]

f***ing garbage play by a f***ing scrub. f*** the Leafs.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Laine was clearing by Pare, that's why Pare had to use his knee to stop him. Pare was caught drifting the other way and lost body position. It's pretty clear what happened.

Pare stepped up, that's it, he doesn't lead with the knee. Laine needs to protect his own ass there. Instead he has his head down and makes a superwide base trying to stickhandle between two guys at the blueline.

It's why he's had injury issues and consistentecy issues his whole career.

I feel bad for him personally but idk if it's the leaf factor as to why people can't see the situation objectively, Laine just makes bad decisions too often.

 

[TheKrebsCycle]

Unfortunate . Was interested to see how he fit w the young Montreal squad

 

[JKG33]

Subbing in the Bertuzzi/Moore situation doesn't at all change my mind at all with that. And frankly you can easily argue that statement is just as applicable to Moore as it was to Pare here.

What Moore did was far worse than this.

 

[TheKrebsCycle]

both players need to learn.

Pare needs to learn to avoid situations in which he can hurt people, and Laine needs to learn to not be so casual trying to split two guys in such a wide stance. Pare stepped up into it, hes as much to blame as Laine is.

What was embarrassing was Pare not defending himself when getting pummelled. Maybe he felt guilty. Not something an NHLer does. Send the scrub back to the AHL.

Soon enough

 

[Crede777]

Pare should have realized you can't take out a star player and not answer the bell for it, incidental or not.

 

[Bridges31]

Pare should have realized you can't take out a star player and not answer the bell for it, incidental or not.

Yup and that’s how it should be. Take care of it on the ice because the league won’t.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

i dont wanna go through 13 pages, is Laine ok?

We don't know. He's getting a MRI done tomorrow.

 

[All Mod Cons]

Pare should have realized you can't take out a star player and not answer the bell for it, incidental or not.

He took out Laine.