Some have steered the Montreal Canadiens are the front-runners for Patrik Laine, however do they actually have that a lot curiosity in him?
The Sick Podcast with Tony Marinaro: Eric Engels when requested about Columbus Blue Jackets ahead Patrik Laine and if the Montreal Canadiens would have any curiosity in Laine.
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Marinaro: “Do you consider that there’s any form of curiosity from the Canadians in direction of Patrik Laine?”
Engels: “I’d say it’s fairly minimal. You understand, I’ve clearly poked round on this. I’m form of laughing as a result of, like, you understand, Twitter has this new ‘for you’ characteristic that, sadly, places you in that field instantly earlier than it’s important to go to the individuals you’re following.
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And, you understand, stuff that’s been pushed to me over the past couple months, or not less than couple weeks, really, intensely, is, you understand, a pair individuals saying, you understand, the Canadians are entrance runners for Patrik Laine.
And it’s identical to, I’m sitting again laughing as a result of I’m probably not working proper now. I’m not gonna, not gonna go after that, however on the finish of the day, like, let’s be actual about this example. Patrick Laine is in the marketplace for a motive. It’s not simply due to the Gamers Help Program, which he’s come out of and now groups have the chance to talk to him, communicate to his agent, discover out the place he’s at, mentally, bodily.
His play on the ice, apart from, you understand, placing up good aim numbers, which clearly, have diminished over the past couple years, it simply has been missing in numerous departments. He desires a brand new begin. I might perceive that.
Would he be prepared to just accept it wherever? We’ll discover out. He’s received a 9 or 10-team, no-trade clause in his contract.
So far as Montreal is worried, I ponder, would he wish to leap out of the Gamers Help Program and into the sort of highlight? I don’t know. It is determined by what number of groups are prepared to offer him a possibility. And I don’t know that the Montreal Canadiens are one among them. They really feel they’ve a particularly wholesome room. Whether or not or not they’d wish to incorporate any person like him, and what he’s coming with into it at this juncture of their growth, is a query.
I perceive lots of people have a look at it and say, ‘Okay, right here’s the potential of the participant, and the Canadians want scoring.’ However he additionally comes with the $8.7 million cap cost and a $9.1 million precise wage.
And if the Canadians had been to even take into account taking up the complete weight of that, which they may do primarily based on their cap state of affairs, you’d suppose that might be coming, when you see the best way Kent Hughes has been working for the previous few years, with a price to Columbus, not a profit.
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I don’t suppose they’re providing up every kind of packages to get him and main the race, quote, unquote.”
