This guy has to be a poster here, it's all too familiar. Ok, which one of you is it?
I think it was.the aavgard poster
then he disappeared here. Now you see this tweets from that guy.
Well, in a way his refusal to acknowledge the weaknesses in his own game are either disingenuous or unrealistic.
I think many has explained this. If there is 1 guy who knows and will acknowledge he sucked its Laine.
Here's the full tweet:
#NHLJets Laine tells
@PekkaJalonen "When you're having contract negotiations, one thing always is who are you playing with. With the merits I have, somewhere else I'd have an opportunity to play with the best players. Everybody who understands hockey knows that." 1/2
#NHLJets Laine adds to
@PekkaJalonen "There are top lines and then there is our line. But I play with the guys I'm told to play." Pekka's story
https://www.iltalehti.fi/nhl/a/ef2c162d-e23e-4b60-b8b3-986d2da28043 … Thanks to Pekka for translation.
This was an overblown tweet that everybody reacted too
AstrophysicalJet said:
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What 3rdline players avg. 17 mins a game?
Were talking about 5v5 vs PP here.
Apples to oranges.
Laine's 5v5 time is usually quite down but his PP time gets his avg TOI up.
There's no doubt most games that Patty's line was rolling 3rd off the bench.
This is true
Play better defensively and he may get more time on the top line against the other team's best and with the empty net.
They were out there to chase 100 points not play defense.
You just scored an empty goal your line. Why in the heck you still out there to get another point with 2 goal lead?
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I think Laine main point was he was expecting top line role start of last season.
Was depleted in start of October cause the coach didnt even try it. Or play them a single game!
Came to euro series looks like was happy end of October and it continued to Nov.
Now December his line still is the 3rd optio for Maurice.
Starting mid dec his play went south. Might be due to bad back also. At the same time the team overall pkay went south also.
After Mid Feb with his Dad visit he started playing again like the Laine of first 2.25 years. Into the playoff.
Laine knew he wasnt good that 3 months amd he acknowledge that.
But he also been saying for 2 year now. He should be given a top line role with what he has accomplished.
People who keep statig Laine doesnt deserve it only keeps pointing at that 2 month period.
While Laine been stating with his interviews before his slide that he wants top line spot.
Everybody knows Laine played crap for 3 months there. So did the whole team.
Now who should we look at here for not making changes. There was an interview with the coach back in late Jan , he mentioned he is not touch 55 and 26 combo.
And it looks like on his preseason interview it will still stay the same.
