Laine’s big claim: Will do anything for the Canadiens!

Laine’s big claim: When Patrik Laine joined the NHL in 2016, he was excited about the game. Now, he’s excited about getting back to that level of play and scoring goals.

I don’t want to score 30 goals when I get back. ” That’s what I want to do: goals 40 or 50 when am done since it is do my best to shoot five goals per game. ” “I’ve done that before, and it wasn’t by accident, Laine said after the Montreal Canadiens claimed him on Monday off the Columbus Blue Jackets.

‘But that is not what it is all about.’ ’ So long they win then I am willing to assist the team to score 50 points if not 20. This is when I am growing old; I cannot be a nineteen-year-old for life, can I? The only thing that I care about is to win.

The 26-year-old is ready for a new start with the Canadiens, who want to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs again after missing out on them the last three years. He signed a four-year, $34.8 million deal with Columbus on July 22, 2022, which is worth an average of $8.7 million per year. He has two seasons left on the deal.

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The Winnipeg Jets picked Laine with the second pick in the 2016 NHL Draft. He has scored 204 goals and set up 184 others in 480 games with the Jets and Blue Jackets. In 2017–18, with the Jets, he scored 44 goals, which was the most in his career. In his first season, he got 36 goals.

Laine’s season was hard, both on and off the ice. Last season, he played 18 games and had nine points (six goals and three assists). However, he didn’t play since December 14 because he had surgery to fix a broken collarbone.

The NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program then started helping him on January 28. He was let out of the program on July 26. It taught Laine “things about myself and how to handle certain situations,” he said. “There will always be bad things and good things happening to you. The question is how to deal with them.” “I was never very good at that,” Laine said.

‘Next, define how to cope with it.’ It is a similar situation to the basic question of whether the glass is half empty or half full, and people appear to be focusing on the brighter side in the present times. What I have gathered is a rather a tough situation; that is the best way I can describe it. It is so good, in fact, it seems too good to be true, and simply cannot be any happier especially when listening to the news of the day.

As for Laine, one assumes the Canadiens expect a lot from this hockey player, though he is, perhaps, still expecting ‘big things’ from himself.

“To me, this isn’t a deal where either he scores 40 or 50 goals or it’s a bust,” said Kent Hughes. He was told to say no if he wanted to help the team and do everything he could to get there. I need to hear from you about that. ‘It will not be how many goals you score to carry the day here – whether you score 20 or 40 goals. ’ What you bring to this team and how you help us will define who gets the job.

It was also true that it will depend on the degree to which Laine will be able to assist the young Canadiens in improving their performance. Of the ones worthy of note in the centre is the 25-year-old Nick Suzuki who scored 77 points, 33 goals, and 44 assist last season. He participated in eighty two games. Cole Caufield is 23 years and Juraj Slafkovsky 20 years old. They are both forwards.

We are very young and while he is only 26 years old, he really has to be considered a veteran on the Montreal Canadiens team,” Hughes said. We told him, when you are 18 years old and going back to Winnipeg as a young hockey player, you should identify what made it easier for you to attain success and what made it difficult to attain success; and anyone in the Montreal Canadiens organization you wished to assist.

Laine feels great in every way. The surgery on his shoulder went well, and he said he has been skating without any trouble. Still ripping the puck, so that’s fine,” he said with a laugh. It’s time to put it all back together with the Canadiens.

“It’s been tough not making the playoffs the last few years. In my second year, being in the Western Conference Final with Winnipeg and experiencing what that’s like is what we play for.” To get to those games, we work out so hard in the summer. I’ll do anything to help get the Canadiens over there.

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