In the highlights of Laine's second hatrik, @ 1:40 mark. Laine's onetimer broke, the defenders stick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w6BzfDEebE
wow
good luck trying to block that shot
Check out the comments. The guy really stole the stick form the kid. Not cool.
It just seems like Maurice is really, really impressed by him, his drive and character.
On that article he said Laines 2nd strenght is unbeliavable drive and will to win.
He kind of has good kind of rage in his game.
This isn't really a question for today but that article made me wonder.
edit, Im not saying he has to be the next captain because he's a Finn, during summer I thought it's going to be Scheifele C, Laine A, Ehlers/Trouba with A at some point.
I'm just wondering what does Maurice think.
wrong video..
Anyway here's real link for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iCXbZv_hg8
yea that's what I watched.
I found the highlight video from some earlier post
Did you add the link later? or am I taking crazy pills
I´m still expecting him to make only something like 25+20. This season will be long and he is only 18. I hope that i´m wrong but reality is that he is not yet old enough for 82 games season with 19min.toi--> We have seen that before with guys like Larkin, Nuge, Eichel etc...
Still this start is sensational and i love the way how he plays right now. Lets hope he can keep it up.
Said this yesterday before the game...
I´m not anymore sure what to expect or even think. He actually time to time looks like Lemieux at his rookie season. Love to watch this kid playing and my hockey fire is first time back after years. I hope only that Winnipeg is not trading this young superstar ever away. This story is gold.
I hope only that Winnipeg is not trading this young superstar ever away.
It's hilarious really that Winnipegians are a bit conscious about everyone possibly not wanting to play in the cold northern prairie and the matter comes up a little over Laine every now and then, while all the Finns are obviously still a bit sore about that one late 90's trade and took it as an affront that the Jets went and sold us.
(Everything's forgiven of course after that warmest welcome back that Teemu got when Ducks first time played the 2.0 there.)
Build this guy a sauna.....for that matter.... build his mom one, as well....
This is something Winnipeg might have to do.
I've heard that Pate has said he likes living in Winnipeg because it's like Tampere but a bit bigger expect for one fact. It misses a proper Sauna that kinda place where you can dip into frozen water.
http://www.talviuimarit.fi/kaupinojan-sauna/kaupinoja-sauna-in-english/
That is the place Pate preferred in Tampere ( there are many like that here ). You can start a petition in Winnipeg to build one when Pates ELC contract ends so you get him to sing new contract.
Thought there is a proper 'inside' Sauna in MTS center so they don't have to modify the arena.
Looks like a real deal and seems to close to MTS center. I wonder if he already knows about the place.
Laine probably would go in there naked and get arrested for whatever reason Arent people in NA wearing a towel in sauna? I doubt if he knows that.
Every person from Scandinavia and Finland knows it's sacrilegious to enter a sauna with anything but a towel and hopefully that never changes!
A towel? I've never been to a sauna where everyone wasn't naked. Whether it was a public or a family sauna. Never seen a towel.
Personally, I am a bit of a linguist and as such always make the effort to learn the proper pronunciation of foreign names. I do think, however, that I can offer a bit of an explanation for the difficulty my countrymen have with Finnish:
We suspect that there are rules for pronunciation, and that they're probably fairly consistent (as most languages are, aside from English). The problem is that we have very close to zero cultural exposure to Finnish; unlike, say, Swedish or Russian, we just have no idea how Finnish is supposed to sound. The little exposure we DO have to the language is in the form of the names of athletes, which (as you've obviously seen) are consistently mangled by the sportscasters from whom we hear them. What this means is that the only vague ideas we have about the rules of Finnish pronunciation are, in fact, wrong.
In Denmark my experience is we usually just use a small towel to sit on. Thought the same would be the case in Finland but I guess I am wrong.
I'm not sure how dense American-Finnish community is there in the friendly Manitoba compared to some other areas in Canada and US where Finnish immigrants have brought the Finnish Sauna culture with them, or how it has developed there ever since. Hard to say how much local efforts could be put to get Sauna for Pate.