Laine injury may work out for best. If Dach doesn't get injured we don't draft Demidov. For sure they won't lock up Laine now. Maybe teach Hughes a lesson he needed to learn? Kapanen gets chance to play on NA ice also. In long run a good thing.
Don't try in life? Don't take chances? Don't do your job?
I agree about the Demidov/Dach scenerio, but this is a trade you want you your GM making 10/10, and gets an asset for it too.
This Laine experiment is far from over in Montreal, and maybe this experience for Laine makes him a stronger version of himself, a hungrier version, a more mentally strong human...Maybe this teaches Laine a lesson he needed to learn?
But teaches Hughes a lesson?! I certainly hope not.