The coach wants more from Laine.
Patrik Laine has to fight his way to serving Montreal’s stars. AOP / USA Today Sports
Patrik Laine The station in the Montreal lineup is a hot potato in Canada’s hockey mechanic.
A Finnish striker who earns $ 8.7 million has stuck out of the top chains Canadiens pilot Martin St. Louis in compositions.
In the last match of the training season, Ottawa Senators received Laine in the third chain in 15 minutes of playing time Josh Anderson and Jake Evans with. The “Tesoma cannon”, who recorded one of the ice and power figures -1, did not reach power points.
“I know he has a good shot and he is effective with overwhelming, but we have to look at his game details in the most even field,” St. Louis commented before the game.
A place of two tops could not be found even if Zach Bolduc Due to injury, he had to stay aside for the Ottawa Koto.
Laine has also been seen during the training season in the Montreal Hierarchy of the lower chains.
RDS channel supplier Martin Lemay Previously suggested that the treatment of Finns suggest that St. Louis is trying to send a message to the expensive player.
– I’m trying to understand what they want to try by putting Laine Becin (Owen) and Velonon (Joe) with. This is not a test, but punishment and consequence, Lemay thought.
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The Canadiens Monday’s exercises gave an indication of the chain compositions the team will go to the NHL season. For the Laine, the situation is sad.
Tampere has been planted in a quad chain with Anderson and Evans, along with which Laine also played his last training match.
Laine played 52 regular season matches last season, where he scored 20+13 = 33. In the playoffs, the striker fell completely outside the line -up. Laine later said that the reason was a finger injury that prevented gaming.
Montreal’s number one fuck is the expected stuff in Monday’s practice: Cole Caufield–Nick Suzuki–Juraj slafkovsky.
However, there are joyful news in the second chain. In practice, 22 years old Oliver Kapanenbeside the megatalent planted next to Ivan Demidov and Alex Newhook.
Montreal opens his season on Thursday night against Toronto Maple Leafs.