The Montreal Canadiens made headlines on Monday, buying Patrik Laine from the Columbus Blue Jackets.
For many of the low season, studies and NHLRumors.com documented the Canadiens curiosity in Laine. Montreal was close to the underside of the NHL in aim scoring, averaging 2.83 objectives per sport.
The Columbus Blue Jackets Commerce Patrik Laine to the Montreal Canadiens
By including a pure-goal scorer, that quantity ought to rise, particularly since Patrik Laine, as he instructed the media in his introductory press convention, feels he could be a 40-50 aim scorer once more.
“I don’t wish to come again as a 30-goal scorer, I wish to come again with 40-50,” Patrik Laine stated.
The query is, can Laine get again to being that participant for the Montreal Canadiens once more? TSN Hockey Analyst Frankie Corrado joined Laura Diakun on SportsCentre and was requested that precise query relating to Patrik Laine’s goal-scoring capability.
** NHLRumors.com Transcriptions
Laura Diakun: and he got here into the gate firing, proper? He began his profession with three straight 30-goal seasons, 36 in his rookie marketing campaign, adopted up with 44 the following yr, after which 30 in his third yr within the NHL. Do you see him regaining that kind as a aim scorer? Predominantly? Do you suppose?
Frankie Corrado: “I can see it for certain. The primary factor is he has to remain wholesome. That’s been the most important factor that has held him again. And so for Patrik Laine, just like the goal-scoring capability is there, and there’s X-factor that the Montreal Canadiens have, and that’s Marty St Louis, and that is going to be his calling card as a coach, is, how will you get a reclamation venture?
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I don’t even wish to name him that as a result of he’s been harm, however it’s a little little bit of a reclamation venture in Patrik Laine. How are you going to put your fingerprints on this participant and get essentially the most out of him, like we’ve seen him with Nick Suzuki, Juraj Slafkovsky Cole Caufield, all these younger defensemen? Marty St Louis has his fingerprints throughout these gamers.
If he can do the identical factor to Patrick Laine and get him again to the place he could be, that’ll be an amazing achievement for Marty St Louis to point out that what his calling card actually is as a participant growth and coach.”
As Corrado stated simply look what St. Louis did with the above gamers. If he can try this with Laine, the Montreal Canadiens can take big steps this season of their rebuild course of.
