TSN: Darren Dreger, Frankie Corrado and Jeff O’Neill focus on Montreal Canadiens Patrik Laine harm 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 desires to see throughout the preseason, accidents and an harm to a participant that they simply acquired.
Dregs, for Patrik Laine, a tricky harm if you consider what the Habs are hoping to get out of him, and difficult for him, given what he’s gone by means of in his profession.”
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Dreger: “Nicely, 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, effectively, how severe is that this knee harm that Patrick Laine suffered very early in a preseason hockey recreation?
Now, I do know Montreal followers are after Cedric Pare for this hit. Laine is reducing throughout. Pare is simply attempting to get a chunk, stand him up. We are able to 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 already know, 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 massive swing that your workforce made. A man who has numerous potential offensively that’s completely different than a number of the gamers that you simply at present have. And if he’s not out there to you, I’m undecided how a lot of a soar the Montreal Canadiens could make this season.”
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 if you add within the harm to David Reinbacher, a tricky evening for the Montreal Canadiens.”
