Patrik Laine’s Falloff is Wild

Making this thread is wild. Laine may not be the best 5v5 guy, but he's literally a premier PP gun. That's valuable as hell.

Imo without Laine you boys wouldn't be as tight in the playoff race as you are now.

He is a consistent threat to score. With Caufield on ice at same time on PP can really see how opposing PKs have a tough time.

Reading journalist rag in Laine even now though is crazy. Montreal media is the worst in the league. That's tough when you got Toronto's media in the game...
 
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He plays with 4th liners on the PP?


How many of his 10 even strength points come with those 4th liners?

To be honest I don't expect the guys he's playing with to be in the league in a few years. To be a 4th liner you need defensive awareness which those guys don't really have, and they don't have the offensive skill to be top 6 either, so they probably won't have a role to fill in the NHL going forward.

The team is just in a spot where they severely lack depth on offense.
 
Laine has just 6 points in his last 14 games… 2 goals in his last 16 games.

while averaging barely 13 minutes TOI in that 14 game span.

over his last 2 seasons he has played in a total of 52 games out of a possible 164.

in those 52 games, he has 33 points. over an 82 game season, he’d be on pace for just 52 points.

wowza.

8.7 million dollar cap hit.

such a weird career.
What's wild is anyone thinking this wouldn't happen, look at his career, so sporadic.
 
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Something is wrong with Laine, just look at him closely, nowhere near the same guy he was with Winnipeg.

I believe he’s dealing with something personally that he’s playing though to the end of the season.
 
Best PP player in the league.

5 on 5? Not so much. But he's coming from a long time off. He's slowly but surely improving. I don't think he'll ever be a guy who drives the play but he can certainly finish it. One of the most interesting storylines next year we'll be seeing how much he can get on a contract. No doubt his goals are extremely valuable but they come almost exclusively with the man advantage.
 

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