TSN: Darren Dreger, Frankie Corrado and Jeff O’Neill focus on Montreal Canadiens Patrik Laine damage and what it would imply for the Canadiens this season.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Host: “Alongside Darren Dreger, Jeff O’Neill and Frankie Corrado. It actually is the very last thing {that a} workforce needs to see throughout the preseason, accidents and an damage to a participant that they simply acquired.
Dregs, for Patrik Laine, a tricky damage once you consider what the Habs are hoping to get out of him, and hard for him, given what he’s gone by way of in his profession.”
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Dreger: “Effectively, for each the group and the fan base, proper? You go from questioning about what sort of chemistry is Patrik Laine going to have with Alex Newhook and Kirby Dach, to now questioning, properly, how severe is that this knee damage that Patrick Laine suffered very early in a preseason hockey sport?
Now, I do know Montreal followers are after Cedric Pare for this hit. Laine is chopping throughout. Pare is simply making an attempt to get a bit, stand him up. We will see that there’s a thigh-on-thigh, knee-on-knee collision. There, ought to have there been a penalty name on the play? I feel that that’s honest, however I didn’t see this as being malicious.
So, yeah, the Montreal Canadians are upset over that play. The Toronto Maple Leafs are simply as upset that Arber Xhekaj, you understand, principally went after their man in Cedric Pare.
So it’s unlucky throughout.”
Corrado: “It’s devastating for Patrik Laine, and it’s doubtlessly devastating for the Montreal Canadiens as a result of this was the large swing that your workforce made. A man who has a number of potential offensively that’s completely different than a few of the gamers that you just at present have. And if he’s not obtainable to you, I’m unsure how a lot of a soar the Montreal Canadiens could make this season.”
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O’Neill: “I’ve by no means seen a man go off the ice like that and the following morning, ‘Nah, nothing to see right here. It’s all good.’ Like, that didn’t look good for Laine”
Host: “And once you add within the damage to David Reinbacher, a tricky night time for the Montreal Canadiens.”
