Player Discussion Patrik Laine: ruining the tank

[HabzSauce]

Fair.

MSL is to blame then.

Or maybe Laine pulled himself out to save the tank??

I think the TANK might be pulling the strings here. MSL just the scapegoat

 

[BargainBinSpecial]

That's cool and all but Laine took a couple of clean hits and he got injured.

Bodes well for the future. If he's not injured and MSL removed him from the game to protect him... says a lot about the player and the team.

Just target Laine if you're the opposite team, nobody is going to do anything about it.

Exactly the point, bottom six blows. Serious re-tooling is required and signing Laine long-term is now more questionable than ever. Hopefully, he comes back next game, scores a ton more until the 2026 trade deadline and the Habs turn him into 2 firsts, top tier prospects and future picks.

 

[Jeune Poulet]

I think Werenski's behaviour is inexcusable and shows an unprofessional like conduct on his part. Sure, your feelings got hurt but trying to intentionally injure your former teammate that you despise is gutless at best. Grow a pair and brush it off, that's what grown man do. It's not a boxing rink. Unfortunately, despite the league's best efforts to eliminate fighting in the game, old mindsets still endure and these situations still happen.

It's a contact sport, not figure skating. The Jackets finished their checks legally and he folded like a cheap suit instead of fighting through it. Now everyone is going to wonder if he was really hurt or if he didn't come back because he was a coward.

The reaction to Laine's shitty comments by the Blue Jackets is precisely what St-Louis always says he wishes his players had, BTW: a pack mentality.

That's what Columbus had last night. They are not a good team but stepped up and were extra motivated by Laine's classless comments. Even Dante Fabbro, a guy who wasn't even there back then, took part and played intensely. Can't believe we dumbly passed up on this right-handed defenseman, BTW. Another genius move by Hughes and Gorton right there.

Anyways, the recent events do, in part, explain how a player with such a gift for scoring ended up being packaged with a 2nd to be shipped out of town by the Jackets. Laine's got a shitty attitude and is soft. Hopefully he learns from that and comes out of it stronger. At the price we paid, I can't complain about having a solid goalscorer.

 

[The Last Red]

Nobody has attacked Waddell on it here or in the press either. I'm not talking about the physical threat, I'm talking about the public outrage for one and acceptance for other for saying the same thing. Makes no sense.

If the observation was wrong, then it's wrong from both of them.

If the observation was correct, then it's correct for both of them.

That's how logic works.

Like I said above, no one is going to attack DW from within the CBJ org., they’d be fired immediately. Laine is a player on an opposing team. That’s life, fair or not.

 

[sampollock]

lets hope PL learned a lesson
so we all can move on

 

[BargainBinSpecial]

It's a contact sport, not figure skating. The Jackets finished their checks legally and he folded like a cheap suit instead of fighting through it. Now everyone is going to wonder if he was really hurt or if he didn't come back because he was a coward.

The reaction to Laine's shitty comments by the Blue Jackets is precisely what St-Louis always says he wishes his players had, BTW: a pack mentality.

That's what Columbus had last night. They are not a good team but stepped up and were extra motivated by Laine's classless comments. Even Dante Fabbro, a guy who wasn't even there back then, took part and played intensely. Can't believe we dumbly passed up on this right-handed defenseman, BTW. Another genius move by Hughes and Gorton right there.

Anyways, the recent events do, in part, explain how a player with such a gift for scoring ended up being packaged with a 2nd to be shipped out of town by the Jackets. Laine's got a shitty attitude and is soft. Hopefully he learns from that and comes out of it stronger. At the price we paid, I can't complain about having a solid goalscorer.

Again, I'm not defending him for going on to the press and criticizing the Jackets like that. It was a silly question by some reporter looking to cause controversy and Laine fell straight into it.

The Jackets knew he was mentally vulnerable and targeted him all night to mess him up. That's what I'm not comfortable with. Also, Werenski continued trashing him after winning the game. That's just not cool. The Jackets and Laine decided to part ways amicably and settling old arguments like that was just unacceptable. This is hockey, not a boxing match. The Jackets organisation should have brushed it off, but instead destabilized the Habs by going after their best goalscorer. For a league that is advocating for player safety, it's quite contradictory.

Anyways, as an organisation you realize you can no longer think of the possibility of signing Laine long-term. He's injury prone, soft and ackward. Best you can hope for is that he continues lighting it up and so flip him for top tier talent.

 

[The Last Red]

Again, I'm not defending him for going on to the press and criticizing the Jackets like that. It was a silly question by some reporter looking to cause controversy and Laine fell straight into it.

The Jackets knew he was mentally vulnerable and targeted him all night to mess him up. That's what I'm not comfortable with. Also, Werenski continued trashing him after winning the game. That's just not cool. The Jackets and Laine decided to part ways amicably and settling old arguments like that was just unacceptable. This is hockey, not a boxing match. The Jackets organisation should have brushed it off, but instead destabilized the Habs by going after their best goalscorer. For a league that is advocating for player safety, it's quite contradictory.

Anyways, as an organisation you realize you can no longer think of the possibility of signing Laine long-term. He's injury prone, soft and ackward. Best you can hope for is that he continues lighting it up and so flip him for top tier talent.

We have more than a full year to make that decision, let’s see where we, and Laine, are then.

 

[sampollock]

"We were hitting him in specific places, and the Blue Jackets players knew exactly what they were doing... And it had an effect, he was forced out of the game."

I think that, most likely, someone somewhere said that he shouldn't be sent back into the game.

The goal was to get him out of that game." - Renaud Lavoie

"Marc Denis: "It seems your team targeted Patrik Laine tonight. Does this have anything to do with his comments earlier today?"

Mathieu Olivier: "No comment

 

[Habssince89]

I'm not upset the CBJ players didn't like his comments, but lets get something straight and that's Laine's mistake was being brutally honest. He's going to come back, score some goals, and we're going to just move forward. This is a non issue

 

[sampollock]

I'm not upset the CBJ players didn't like his comments, but lets get something straight and that's Laine's mistake was being brutally honest. He's going to come back, score some goals, and we're going to just move forward. This is a non issue

smartest post in a few hours

 

[GHJimmy]

I hope CBJ Roster and fans are hurt and ego'd by Laine's comments, he's complete honest and I don't expect any other Finnish to act the same way if he were in those same shoes. People are soft now

 

[1909]

I'm not upset the CBJ players didn't like his comments, but lets get something straight and that's Laine's mistake was being brutally honest. He's going to come back, score some goals, and we're going to just move forward. This is a non issue

Might be a non issue… But CLB players were pissed off and wanted badly to win this game and hurt him in the process. We don’t know yet the nature and seriousness of his injury, but let just hope he won’t be away for too long.

With Laine in the line up for the whole game, Habs would have had better chances to win it. And instead of being close to .500 record, they are now 3 games below. Different impact on a mentally fragile team before a long trip against contenders.

I hope CBJ Roster and fans are hurt and ego'd by Laine's comments, he's complete honest and I don't expect any other Finnish to act the same way if he were in those same shoes. People are soft now

It is very rare that players crap that hard on their former team. I think he was stupid, not brave.

 

[HabzSauce]

Laine vs Ohio

 

[GHJimmy]

It is very rare that players crap that hard on their former team. I think he was stupid, not brave.

They looked like a complete mess in CBJ to get laine to that point of wanting to be traded. I can care less about their ego's being hurt lmao

 

[Tyson]

They looked like a complete mess in CBJ to get laine to that point of wanting to be traded. I can care less about their ego's being hurt lmao

There are things better left unsaid and Laine should know that.

 

[GHJimmy]

There are things better left unsaid and Laine should know that.

I get that, but what is wrong with small talk that cause a little head shake? Exactly TOO SOFT.

 

[Tyson]

"We were hitting him in specific places, and the Blue Jackets players knew exactly what they were doing... And it had an effect, he was forced out of the game."

I think that, most likely, someone somewhere said that he shouldn't be sent back into the game.

The goal was to get him out of that game." - Renaud Lavoie

"Marc Denis: "It seems your team targeted Patrik Laine tonight. Does this have anything to do with his comments earlier today?"

Mathieu Olivier: "No comment

Well it's official that Laine is blessed with the ability to shoot a puck because he is a f***ing idiot.

I get that, but what is wrong with small talk that cause a little head shake? Exactly TOO SOFT.

Evidently the soft issue is Laine because they forced him out of the game.

 

[GHJimmy]

Evidently the soft issue is Laine because they forced him out of the game.

If i can get a "Hoe's mad" type of meme on Laine's picture, this is the reason for the meme to have

 

[Tyson]

If i can get a "Hoe's mad" type of meme on Laine's picture, this is the reason for the meme to have

Was Laine accurate with what he said? Possibly but did he need to say it?

 

[GHJimmy]

Was Laine accurate with what he said? Possibly but did he need to say it?

It's quite evident there is always some locker room shenanigans and elephant in the room type of situations, and just to see Laine's perspective, it made a whole lot more sense in why he made those comments, They've should've been more open public to show support, it seems they didn't do that to Laine when he struggled. Let egos more hurt. Softies.

 

[1909]

If you are a real team player, you don’t give ammunitions the other team by saying certain things. Laine and Habs paid for it yesterday.

 

[Marioesque]

but did he need to say it?

Nope.

And they don't need to ask those questions either, but they do because then they get clickbait and faux outrage when he overshares and agrees with Waddell.

 

[Apoplectic Habs Fan]

Maybe it will become a rivalry and we have Laine to thank, or likely be irrelevant shortly as our attention spans are nothing

Lets be honest, if MtL had some tough guys and not fake ones last night, they woulda handled things differently as well

Frankly once they saw Laine being targeted, Johnson and Fantilli should have be ran right back

 

[japhi27returns]

I'm a bit surprised at the reaction this has generated within the fan base. Considering the stuff players in other leagues have said in similar situations (past player facing former team), Laine's not saying anything too radical. Laine was just being honest and frankly him getting injured and some questionable defensive breakdowns and goals were what made the big difference than his comments pre game.

It was a sloppy game with barely any physicality. Goaltending was terrible overall.
I swear the loudest voices here didn’t watch the game, which makes sense, they seem to hate the team, generally.

If that effort was the BJ’s motivated then maybe Laine had a good point, that there is a loser mentality in that room. Because they played poorly, hardly a statement level game for anyone that actually watches hockey.

 

[sampollock]

Nope.

And they don't need to ask those questions either, but they do because then they get clickbait and faux outrage when he overshares and agrees with Waddell.

press did not help, but does not excuse PL