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The hottest talk of the past week, at least in Finnish, was Montreal Patrik Laine Benches on Sunday in Anaheim. Head coach Martin St. Louis Rite two rounds and in the third Laine played only 36 seconds. The same fate was experienced by a Canadian striker Kirby Dach.
Laine has played eight games without goals and six without points. The number of power statistics in the previous six matches is -6. Montreal has lost in his six previous matches by five against five of five, with Laine on the ice 7-14.
– Montreal has been trying to hang out in the playoffs, but once losses have come, coaching has had to make new plans. That is the NHL. If five five goals come to your own than the attack, this can happen. The coach then made the decision to put the waves aside, EPN’s hockey expert Ismo Lehkonen says.
Laine got a flying start for her season and banged eight hits in her nine first games. There was also one hat trick.
After the overpowering game that supported the wave and the team has lost its blades, Lainekin has lost its impact. The biggest problems with Laine are in the basics of five against five.
Finnish time early Thursday morning in Los Angeles Laine played just over 11 minutes.
– It seems that physics is not in a condition that that pace requires. It is quite natural when thinking about his previous two years. It has been rehabilitated there and this, and there have been spiritual things.
– In addition, the media pressure in Montreal is really high. There, every change of each game goes through. When it is still remembered that Laine has a mental problem in the background, that is a pretty tough equation, Lehkonen sees.
According to Lehkonen, the top tournament of the coming week will be a good seam for Laine.
– It can be a good situation for him. Get out of everyday life in Canada and get new stimuli. It is really interesting to see him with brand new chain buddies, Lehkonen enthusiastic.
Who surprised?
Detroit Red Wings – NHL Best Team!
It’s a time since we were the last time we could say this. This is the case in the period after Tapan’s Day. After giving the shoe to the previous head coach Derek Lalondelle and after hiring Todd McLellan Detroit has been the best team in the whole series.
Under McLellan, the car city team has won 15 of its 20 matches.
Lehkonen praises McLellan, who previously did a great job at San Jose, Edmonton and Los Angeles. In the summer of 2016, the pilot with San Jose reached the final.
– The coach matters. The coaching team matters. There must be experience and view that they are also able to teach money professionals. Also, charisma also plays a lot of importance in the NHL world, whatever it was outside.
– There must be a credible host in the house, which is absolutely absolute in certain things.
If McLellan is somewhere absolute, it’s a defense game. Detroit has released about half a goal per match under its new coach than before – and there is still room for growth. The underdog has also been weak with McLellan.
– This is a pretty classic story. That team exudes that defending well, so you attack well. McLellan has given permission to attack maximum, as long as the amount of work in the defense is maximum. The game finally thanks and rewards it, Lehkonen says.
Who betrayed?
Buffalo’s nature deceived. Although fighting in the hockey rink is strongly yesterday, Buffalo’s reluctance to react in any way to the leading player.
New Jersey Stefan noesen drove ugly at the weekend Buffalo’s number one center Tage Thompson In the head, but the team did not react to it in any way.
No verbal reminder, not even the smallest. At the same time as the team’s best scorer lying on ice, the rest of the group spotted him between his legs. The events only underlined the character of the NHL’s eternal sub -performer.
The team held a “crisis meeting” the next day.
– That is an individual team, it has become clear. In that team, the most important thing for players is to save themselves. Most importantly, you are the first to get to the lifeboat itself. Good teams are trying to make a guy better, but not the case in Buffalo, Lehkonen criticizes.
Finnish goal of the week
Carolinan Jesperi Kotkaniemi Sucked the goal in the match against Los Angeles. In fact, the ace breeder has scored five goals and seven points in the eight previous matches, being the most powerful player in his team.
Kotkaniemi has taken a step forward in his career this season, even though it has not yet been seen in the game time.
– He is strong at the start, strong in the middle lane and started to take a booth from one Jordan’s stal -The type of gaming. Now that the way the game is in control, he is approaching that level all the time, Lehkonen praises.
– Coaching Dog House I don’t believe in her Rod brind’amour During the time you ever get into. Not only does he like Kotkaniemi for some reason.
What next?
The New York Rangers has undoubtedly been one of the biggest disappointments of the NHL season at both team and individual levels. However, last week, however, it acquired the tip of Vancouver JT Millerwho seems to have been well sitting on a familiar team.
An American player profiled as a soul player in Vancouver seems to have given strong pastoral care to Rangers now.
There are a couple of winnings in the tube and suddenly the top players who have wandered through the darkness of the season Mika Zibanijad and Chris Kreider have begun to show signs of awakening.
Through Miller, the Rangers can skate in the middle lane with a trio that is not found anywhere else: Miller, Vincent Trocheck And the zibanijad form a really hard trio.
– Now the quality controller came to the booth who does not give mercy to anyone. And after all the Vancouver drama, he certainly has a desire to show. This was a great bet on the Rangers. Miller is the best medicine for them. They get a good push for the spring with his help.
But will the Rangers get up on the drop line? Is it even a prospective candidate for the spring?
– I would say it’s 50-50 for the playoffs. In that tight race, it decides who the nerve lasts.
-For the spring, the challenge is if you have to press the best one in one spring to get into the playoffs and then turn the screw in the playoffs. This is what many coaches are afraid of. There the tanks can be pretty empty.
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