Otherwise I agree, but his shot has been a tad off in the last few games. And I’m not meaning just those posts, as that is just unlucky, but he has in fact been shooting several shots quite badly wide or high, which didn’t really happen as much during his hot streak. I think injuries might make it much easier to loose some of the accuracy that he has at best. At least so far this has been the case after his injuries last season and this season.
Otherwise he has definitely looked lately quite dominant with his skating and puck control.
Well, he's a mere mortal after all, can't be shooting 50% all the time... there was a couple chances in the game against the Preds where I expected a goal but it didn't happen... Laine shooting at his best would've scored a goal or two in that game I bet, but he had a very strong game and IMO nothing in the way he played suggested any sort of injury. Yes, it's always possible there's a little bit of something that might affect it, heck even the ankle thing might nag him enough while shooting to have some effect, but I'd say it's more about flow/confidence. During his hot streak his every shot looked like it was destined for goal, but that streak got broken with the injury and now it looks a bit more like he's
trying to score, which is how most people do it ... I mean if he had kept up his hot streak pace for the reminder of the season, he would've ended up with 55-65 goals.... it was a spectacular stretch of 15 games, rarely do you see a player completely dominate the result of every half decent scoring chance he gets like Laine seemed to do. Can't keep that up forever, if he could he'd end up scoring 100+ a season. But the way he is playing, unless he gets completely snake bitten and everything going against him, he's gonna score a few more. I doubt that's enough for rocket, though it could be... but if can sneak in a multigoal game or two in there, or even a hat trick, that very well could do it - his play is definitely at a level where that could easily happen any game.
