Player Discussion Patrik Laine: ruining the tank

[V13]

Laine can also play the point on the PP with his rail gun shot of his.

He has the best cannon on the team (sorry Cole)

 

[Ozmodiar]

DAL, CAR and DET are two teams in top 10 that seems to have had a split (I checked some of their forwards PP% on Frozen tools)

Dallas stack it but they have depth (parity) there so some pieces are interchangeable.
Car have gone with 2 D - quite uncommon now for unit 1 - but like to have Jarvis and Aho on 1st unit.

Detroit take a balanced approach. True true.

 

[Victoire HuGo]

Dallas stack it but they have depth (parity) there so some pieces are interchangeable.
Car have gone with 2 D - quite uncommon now for unit 1 - but like to have Jarvis and Aho on 1st unit.

Detroit take a balanced approach. True true.

Aho and Pavelski were seeing less than 65% of the available PP minutes.

 

[JianYang]

Fantastic to see that!!

I'm soo hype with this acquisition!!

Why is this dairy cow wearing a Laine jersey?

 

[HomaridII]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1830373758168703190

 

[Barriwhite]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1830373758168703190

Quite possibly the cutest Habs gf ever

 

[Whitesnake]

Great to see Heineman shaking hands with Laine. Clearly he was not going to miss that day...Swede had to come and see what this new Finn was all about!

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Great to see Heineman shaking hands with Laine. Clearly he was not going to miss that day...Swede had to come and see what this new Finn was all about!

Where'd you see that ?

 

[red devil]

Where'd you see that ?

Patrik Laine arrives in Montreal | Montréal Canadiens

The official National Hockey League website including news, rosters, stats, schedules, teams, and video.

www.nhl.com

 

[LV426]

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Patrik Laine arrives in Montreal | Montréal Canadiens

The official National Hockey League website including news, rosters, stats, schedules, teams, and video.

www.nhl.com

I hope they didn't make him eat toast.

 

[Seven7]

#92

 

[dinodebino]

Never stepped on the logo. Rispek!

 

[KevSkillz4]

#92 fit perfectly on him !!

 

[Treal]

there he is!

Neat! Reminds me of the last time I was this excited for a new player's first locker room visit

 

[Team_Spirit]

The locker room badly needs a refresh

 

[rahad]

Unless Dach/Laine have instant chemistry in the preseason, I'd have Laine with Suzuki to start the season. He's our most paid player now he needs to play with a top line center. Slaf or Caufield can play with Dach and Newhook.

Why on earth you want to destroy the C-S-Slaf chemistry? Laine should start the season in the second line with Dach and Newhook. He did nothing for us yet. It would be absurd to remove Caufield from the PP1 for Laine on day 1.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

The locker room badly needs a refresh

They need to take down Lafleur’s picture and replace it with modern legends like Desharnais.

 

[HabzSauce]

They need to take down Lafleur’s picture and replace it with modern legends like Desharnais.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

Unless Dach/Laine have instant chemistry in the preseason, I'd have Laine with Suzuki to start the season. He's our most paid player now he needs to play with a top line center. Slaf or Caufield can play with Dach and Newhook.

I actually think Dach’s a better passer than Suzuki is. I like Suzuki better because he’s got a killer shot. I don’t think it hurts either CC or Laine to be with either of these players.

I would absolutely keep CC on the first unit PP to start the season though. Makes no sense to remove him. If his shoulder is still wonky and Laine’s is better, then sure flip them. But I think CC’s a better bet to have a good season this year.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

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Awesome. I need one for my garage.

 

[Naslundforever]

Why on earth you want to destroy the C-S-Slaf chemistry? Laine should start the season in the second line with Dach and Newhook. He did nothing for us yet. It would be absurd to remove Caufield from the PP1 for Laine on day 1.

pp was 24th in the league. CC’s 9 goals ranked 34th. We’re really used to mediocrity aren’t we. Scratch that, mediocrity would be a pp ranked around 16 semantically.

 

[le_sean]

pp was 24th in the league. CC’s 9 goals ranked 34th. We’re really used to mediocrity aren’t we. Scratch that, mediocrity would be a pp ranked around 16 semantically.

Maybe if they replace Mike “I can do it all by myself and I’m blind from the right eye” Matheson with Hutson, we could see an improvement.

 

[Naslundforever]

Maybe if they replace Mike “I can do it all by myself and I’m blind from the right eye” Matheson with Hutson, we could see an improvement.

I agree he’s meh on special teams (almost like he has too much time to think), I’m just scoffing at the idea there isn’t lots (looooots) of room for improvement at every position on pp1, including the « un-toucheable » cc-Suz-Slaf line.

edit - I have Hutson over Matheson and Laine over CC to start the year on pp1 because I feel they are almost obliged.

 

[WeThreeKings]

 

[Rapala]

Sounds like a recipe for mediocrity.

Is there a top 10 PP in the NHL that “spreads it out”?

TB, Rangers, Oilers, Leafs, Carolina, Vancouver, Col, Fla …. None of them do this.

Nope they don't. They look to play the entire two minutes while tiring out the opposition.
We started getting some of those lengthier PP's happening towards the end of last season.
Unfortunately bad decisions put an end to some of the better ones needlessly.
They were however very good Power Plays and definitely kept the momentum rolling on our side.
Personally I like a healthy competition for those prime minutes something we've never had enough depth for...
Until now.