Does it Make Sense for Montreal to Commerce for Patrik Laine?
TSN Hockey Analyst Frankie Corrado joined TSN SportsCenter to debate trending matters within the NHL, together with whether or not the Montreal Canadiens ought to commerce for Columbus Blue Jackets ahead Patrik Laine.
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Host: “We’re joined by our NHL analyst Frankie Corrado, for warm or not. And we’re taking a look at Jap NHL groups. We’re gonna begin with Montreal. Ought to the Canadiens be making an attempt to commerce for Patrik Laine scorching or not?”
Frankie Corrado: “Okay, so I’m not like overly scorching on this, however I’m greater than lukewarm. I’m greater than lukewarm on this, and I’ve been warming as much as it, and I’ll let you know why. There’s one x-factor for me. That’s Marty St. Louis. Marty. St. Louis has a approach of working with gamers and discovering methods to get essentially the most out of them. He can relate to them on a stage that not each coach within the NHL can do.
Now, if you happen to wished to convey him in. You must eat no less than 25 p.c of that wage if you happen to’re Columbus, so you must make him a $6-$6.5 million greenback participant which Montreal would be capable of soak up of their cap construction. And the opposite factor the timing could be proper for Patrick Laine to be a Montreal Canadien, as a result of there’s not nice expectations on the group to be a profitable group to be a playoff group.
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So meaning for Patrick Laine, he can sort of slide in underneath the radar there. He simply has to go in there, be part of what Marty St. Louis is preaching his program, do his factor, and perhaps it turns into one thing extra with out the expectations being too excessive for Patrick Laine.
So I’m not precisely overly scorching however I’m greater than lukewarm on it.”
