Patrik Laine’s Falloff is Wild

This "fall-off" will help the Habs in the long run when they sign him for $6M × 5 years, which will be nicely cap-controlled.

The contract will be vaunted as one of the reasons why the Habs have gone back-to-back.
 
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All His goal highlights look nearly identical . He gets setup from his teammates and shoots from the nearly the same spot on the face off circle
 
The guy has 27 points. Don't think teams care about him that much anymore, he's just not that much of a threat anymore.

That's a 60+ pts clip , with injuries / missing time / new team. He's been a welcomed offensive weapon on the Habs PP.

He hasn't been perfect or at his peak but certainly wouldn't describe him as a "27 point player".

He's been a solid gamble so far and one of the reasons why Habs are competing for a playoff spot.

Hopefully the rest of his game improves under Marty St-Louis.
 
That's a 60+ pts clip , with injuries / missing time / new team. He's been a welcomed offensive weapon on the Habs PP.

He hasn't been perfect or at his peak but certainly wouldn't describe him as a "27 point player".

He's been a solid gamble so far and one of the reasons why Habs are competing for a playoff spot.

Hopefully the rest of his game improves under Marty St-Louis.
He is what he is. A head case that will miss about half the season and score maybe 50 points. Nowadays he's not even a top 50 player in the league.

He's never been a top player in the league. His best season he scored 70 points. Now for a couple of seasons he was one of the best goal scorers in the league, but that was 6+ years ago.
 
He is what he is. A head case that will miss about half the season and score maybe 50 points. Nowadays he's not even a top 50 player in the league.

He's never been a top player in the league. His best season he scored 70 points. Now for a couple of seasons he was one of the best goal scorers in the league, but that was 6+ years ago.

...no one here says he is...however calling him a "27 point" player without adding any of the context to it isn't really being honest either...
 
He is what he is. A head case that will miss about half the season and score maybe 50 points. Nowadays he's not even a top 50 player in the league.

He's never been a top player in the league. His best season he scored 70 points. Now for a couple of seasons he was one of the best goal scorers in the league, but that was 6+ years ago.

That's fine , hopefully he can stay healthy for a bit , his last injury was a freak accident.

Even if he's not a top 50 player , he's certainly a top 6 player and a legit sniper. If he can become a PP specialist and round out the rest of his game that would be ideal.

Time will tell.
 
At this point, one thinks he would have learned how to play even a modest amount of defense. Laine makes Ovechkin look like Jere Lehtinen.
 
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At this point, one thinks he would have learned how to play even a modest amount of defense. Laine makes Ovechkin look like Jere Lehtinen.

It's odd because he was doing quite well on the defense against the best players in the world during the Four Nations tournament.

He just seems to be very selective of when to put in effort, and when not. I'd like to see how he performs in a big game scenario.
 
This is Laine. Better get used to it. When he is good he is really good, but when he is bad he is really bad.

The good thing is that he appears to be "surviving" his minutes on the ice right now. Not too many goals against when he's playing 5on5. As long as he's not an outright liability on even strength, he adds value to the team as a PP specialist. And if he can get his game going a little bit 5v5, he adds a ton of value.
 

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