First of all, you are speaking of two organizations whose leadership favors climbing the tree ass first in every which way when it comes to the play. Ever since safe is death every attempt has been made to avoid scoring. Now actually would be a nice time to consider re-tooling. If you have plenty of mobile defencemen why not once again use them against the enemy and drop for example the Savard-led brake pair. Especially now when who knows how crazy of a deal Winnipeg would be willing to accept. Which could even be similar to the Rick Nash trade where they had to only give middling players in return. Not the second or third best Finnish forward.
Laine is of the seed of a proud family but highly determined and hard-working so the image created of him is ludicrous. Laine was notoriously one of the first who made big iron obey him in the summers. Not in his hometown of Tampere, a proud city of the Tavastians but in Turku, the first city of West Finns and home to people of absolute seriousness such as the Koivu family. There he trained under Hannu Rautala, a veteran sports and tracks trainer, in the same group with Mikko Rantanen.
The one reason Winnipeg would be willing to depart from Laine by a compromise is probably that he does not want to commit to playing in a Mickey Mouse organization. Since he has already succeeded under meidän peli- playbooks of Tappara and Jukka Jalonen. While Gold-Jukka Jalonen has been sending come and get me pleas for a few years now, one Jarmo Kekäläinen meanwhile has been waiting if some other NHL organization would like competitive advantage instead while he employs coaches laughed out of Finland in Eaves or Madden.
I don't know how Jampe lucked his way into Hartnell or could he do it with Granlund again. But is wise to remember that Jarmo Kekäläinen only believes in hard work. Laine fits that description but the more abstract qualities strong in Laine's character such as play and dynasty of winning are Hebrew to Jarmo Kekäläinen. Fellers, let's remember that this is a man who pushed the Blue Jackets as part of the global series despite the fact that his team did not have any names then or now. None of the Finnish stars people would actually want to see in Helsinki. I do not necessarily see why Laine would not Panarin-like follow the Eurasian ice hockey pyramid in that they favor to play for the advantageous big clubs over the long term. Granlund and Puljujärvi might give how they are now undervalued by larger imaginary despite being among the most potent Olympic-class forwards.
