MardyBum
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If it's so irritating, don't read the thread.
It's fairly easy to ignore the posters who over-hype Laine if you actually make an effort to.
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If it's so irritating, don't read the thread.
It's fairly easy to ignore the posters who over-hype Laine if you actually make an effort to.
BB88
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He's 20 today? and he has 13 points in his NHL career.
He's going to be most likely a beauty but why would Laine develop into worse player, has Laine already hit his ceiling?
Laine is better prospect than Nylander is today and he's 2 years youngers.
TheGroceryStick
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Well, here we are.....Show us what you got kid! Let us see a bit more of Matthews and the speedy kids 
You can do it!
You can do it!
MardyBum
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It proves your point that you get irritated, yes.
I don't like the ridiculous over hype posts on Laine either, because it's just going to end up as fodder for bitter posters, but again, it's usually the same few guys and it's fairly easy to ignore.
You know it was u-18
Teemu pulkkinen, Toni Rajala and Mikael Granlund has been also fantastic in U-18 ( All 3 of them having more than 2 PPG )
William has 1,58...
ROFL... Even Lauri Korpikoski has higher PPG, than Nylander
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Stephen
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Granlund was a real prospect messiah in his time too.
So was Saku Koivu actually. He had like 50 elite NHL games to start his career, and his legend was pretty outsized to his real contributions ever since.
Blasphemy for you to belittle a warrior like Saku Koivu!
In his defense his NHL career was seriously hampered by the achilles (?) injury he suffered in the sophomore year. At least that we are led to believe.
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Stephen
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Blasphemy for you to belittle a warrior like Saku Koivu!
In his defense his NHL career was seriously hampered by the achilles (?) injury he suffered in the sophomore year. At least that we are led to believe.
No, that's true. Koivu had a very hard time with his health issues.
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Come on, he's a bigger man than that....
Especially in the morning, relative to the afternoon.
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At least Laine didn't get his face printed into stamp just because he scored one beautiful goal.
Neither of those players scored as important goals for their teams as Laine did. At least for a Tappara fan last year seemed unbelievable. Not that we got one of the most talented kids in our lineup, we also got to witness him finally breaking the 3 year's pain of losing in finals in a row, scoring the clutch goal every god damn time it seemed not possible.
I don't know how it looked to those guys whose team Laine scored against but for a fan like me, it was all surreal. And to me, Laine definately earned most of his hype for his actions on the ice, not because he is cute or because he scored a lacrosse goal. People who shine up when the stakes are highest usually gets the biggest headlines.
He had an incredible season and I am sure it felt great by Tappara fans. Hype from fans is a natural reaction even when it progresses to excessive levels, but when it evolves to a point where any discussion is fled with nothing but bickering and controversy, it becomes a distraction for those who want to actually discuss the player. I am a fan myself, I have no reason to hate the guy, but I am labeled as a hater around the boards because I constantly take exception to the overhype. Probably shouldn't and just ignore it instead, but I do for whatever reason.
Gsus
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He doesn't, he just wants to probably take down the Russians. Who wouldn't.
You're right, he's probably going to throw the game because of an online argument about matthews being better.
Mugzy97
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He was 19 when he got the points and he'll be 20 until May 2017 so he'll get a bunch more as a 20 y/o. I'm not trying to prove anything but at least if you're going to make an argument use a good argument and get your facts straight.
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And again he's 20y today and has 13 points in the NHL.
Laine will have 2 seasons in the NHL as well before he turns 20y.
Kamiccolo
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Back pedaling in full effect.
Are people really saying the hype was not that high? LOL
We are almost on thread what 14? 15? He has more threads than McDaivd. He's been compared to Lemeiux, Ovi, Selanne, he's been said to be easily better than Matthews, who is only going first in the draft due to playing C.
Some have him as a 50 goal scorer in the NHL.
Are people really saying the hype was not that high? LOL
We are almost on thread what 14? 15? He has more threads than McDaivd. He's been compared to Lemeiux, Ovi, Selanne, he's been said to be easily better than Matthews, who is only going first in the draft due to playing C.
Some have him as a 50 goal scorer in the NHL.
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