The point was that if the leading player in the league is not a superstar then there can't be superstars.
Maybe some of you think that he will regress to the Little levels but he won't. He's in 1st line to stay and it won't happen there. Just like 16-17, Laine was leading the league in goals and had the highest ppg for 2 months with Scheifele who was leading the points race in the league.
At this point it would be impossible to bury him again without major public outcry. That's why he will now dominate. Get used to it, he will get to show his value for a full season with Scheifele. I'm not going just by 5 games, I have seen him with Scheifele for several months in 16-17 and some part of 17-18 with Stastny, so I have seen his real level already. Great to see him at 21 already becoming the dominant force he was against his peers in world juniors, now against the best hockey athletes in the world. He threw 8 hits last night, while being involved in 4/5 goals. He was +4. Also leads the team, if not the league, in takeaways.
He's a legit monster at 21, far away from his physical prime.
Wait, what?
That’s like saying when Brock Nelson was second a few years ago after this length of time, that “If Brock Nelson isn’t a superstar then Crosby isn’t one.”
I never doubted Laine wasn’t a very good player.
But you’re trying to make a point that if a guy who is second in points 9 days in is not a superstar, then there are no superstars. That could be one of the most idiotic things I’ve ever read in my fifteen and a half years here, no offense. Not calling your an idiot, just the logic.
Again We are 9 Days into the season man. We know who the superstars are we don’t have to base it on these 9 days alone.
I wish everybody could just stop overreacting about good and bad with Patrick Because a lot of the Laine reactionary threads are so bipolar because people see Laine lovers or Finnish people alike w/ some jets fans praise him sooo high that other fans bring him down soooo low that those people THEN feel Compelled to lower the amazing high, and you all feel like highering the lower low. If everyone just said he was a good player there would be no need for the overreactions, ya know.....
And I didn’t try to make that rhyme.
I guess that’s what happens with inconsistent players though. Again that’s not shade being thrown but even the biggest Laine fans would admit he is really inconsistent even before lazt year.