Patrik Laine’s Falloff is Wild

[TS Quint]

27 points in 35 games while playing with 2 4th liner on 5v5 .

He plays with 4th liners on the PP?


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

 

[Sensatauro]

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...

 

[BullLund]

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.

 

[wetcoast]

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.

 

[viceroy]

Heatley was vastly better player. Both are dickheads though.

Both? Heatley got a man killed for crissakes.

 

[Frank Drebin]

I love patrik can’t help it

 

[Maurice of Orange]

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.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

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.

 

[Plural]

Both? Heatley got a man killed for crissakes.

True, not a good comparison. My mistake.

 

[frederixx]

He missed nearly a whole year and is now playing on 1 leg. He should have probably undergone surgery but opted out.
So his numbers are more than decent on a questionnable 2nd line (would be a 3rd or 4th line on any decent team)

 

[golgoXIII]

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.

I think it will probably look a lot like Jonathan Drouin contracts

 

[NyQuil]

He's like a DH now.

 

[Novice]

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the world's largest ocean plastic accumulation, located between Hawaii and California. Spanning 1.6 million square kilometers, it consists of plastics ranging from large fishing nets to tiny microplastics.

Formed by the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, it's not a solid "island" but a concentration of approximately 1.8 trillion plastic pieces weighing 80,000 metric tons. These plastics harm marine life through ingestion and entanglement and fishermen around the area are alarmed about their increasingly empty nets.

Researchers claim it is the biggest pile of floating trash in the world, but a small number of hockey fans insist that the title belongs to ice hockey player Patrik Laine. A clear difference between the two is that while the Garbage Patch empties nets in the ocean, Laine somehow keeps filling them with pucks.

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the world's largest ocean plastic accumulation, located between Hawaii and California. Spanning 1.6 million square kilometers, it consists of plastics ranging from large fishing nets to tiny microplastics.

Formed by the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, it's not a solid "island" but a concentration of approximately 1.8 trillion plastic pieces weighing 80,000 metric tons. These plastics harm marine life through ingestion and entanglement and fishermen around the area are alarmed about their increasingly empty nets.

Researchers claim it is the biggest pile of floating trash in the world, but a small number of hockey fans insist that the title belongs to ice hockey player Patrik Laine. A clear difference between the two is that while the Garbage Patch empties nets in the ocean, Laine somehow keeps filling them with pucks.