Btw. Laine has crept into top-10 in goals, being 9th with 28 and 6th since he entered the league. And he's still 19.
Whenever you feel like that Laine kid is not that special and can't even create his own offence, watch some other teams and realize what kind of effect it has on the PP and how much space it also creates for other players to score to have a shot like Laine on ice. In PP goals Laine leads the league with 16, only Stamkos and Malkin coming close with 14 and 13.
He's currently on pace for 38. Taking into account how consistent he has been for the season, I doubt he'll fall far off that pace and depending on the lines and ice time, he might even take it up a notch to still reach 40. Oveckin, Malkin and Kucherov seem unreachable, but he's only 2 goals away from being 4th.
I also like how on the whole his game has been getting better and better as the season has progressed and I'm starting to see some of the things he did before NHL come back to his game, which promises good for coming seasons as he gets to his peak physically. To be honest my expectations were higher for this season already, and production wise he's currently trending towards the low end of what I had in mind. I was expecting an improvement similar to what Aho for example has done. But on the whole it hasn't really changed how I view him as a player, I'm still very much willing to go on record saying I believe he has a very good chance to become one of the best European players we've seen.
If it was that easy to be a teenager top-10 scorer in the league, I believe more people would do it