Montreal Canadiens Can Make Supply on Patrik Laine As Columbus Waits on His Return
Aaron Portzline of the Athletic joined TSN Radio in Montreal and was requested in regards to the standing of Patrik Laine with the Columbus Blue Jackets and if the Montreal Canadiens may very well be a match.
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Host: “Welcome again to TSN 690. Our subsequent visitor does nice work overlaying the Columbus Blue Jackets for The Athletic. His identify is Aaron Portzline.
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It’s alwayds a pleasure speaking with you and Columbus appears all the time be headline information with regards to the Nationwide Hockey League. And I assume I don’t wish to bury the lead once more to different subjects with regards to the Blue Jackets, however I wish to begin with the subject that Montreal errs are most focused on. And that’s what occurs with Patrik Laine?”
Aaron Portzline: “Yeah, yeah. Properly, Montreal can definitely put their provide forth in the event that they’re . He’s at the moment within the NHL and NHLPA Gamers Help Program. Now, he will be traded out of that. There’s there’s nothing that limits the Blue Jackets from buying and selling him whereas he’s in that program. And but, the circumstances sort of do restrict it as a result of any crew, and that is partly what the groups have expressed that Don Waddell, however partly that he doesn’t know the participant both, so he can’t actually inform groups or be trustworthy with groups about the place Patrik is at or, or what his future could seem like.
The groups wish to discuss to Patrik Laine earlier than they commerce for him. Which I feel is affordable. This can be a participant who performed 18 video games final 12 months. Has been in a program that could be a nice program, but it surely definitely is trigger for concern. How wholesome is that this participant? How impressed is that this participant? The place’s his coronary heart? The place’s his head? These are all honest questions for a crew that’s trying to put money into Patrik Laine.
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And so the Blue Jackets are ready for phrase from his agent. The League’s not going to announce that. They announce this stuff throughout the season. Outdoors the season they don’t announce it. So that they’re ready for phrase from his agent, Andy Scott that Patrik Laine is now not in this system.
They thought it was going to return a month in the past. They time period it any day now then they usually’re nonetheless ready. And nobody will admit the frustration however there needs to be some now with the draft previous, most of free company gone as effectively. The busy a part of the summer season has moved alongside right here, they usually’re nonetheless left with the participant.”
