The Season Hasn't Even Officially Started Yet But Patrik Laine Already Ended It For The Canucks
Patrik Laine is a lot of things. He is a hockey player. He is an elite level sniper. And now? Patrik Laine is a murderer.
Laine is just coming into his 3rd year in the league. He’ll only be 20 years old for the entirety of the regular season. And he just stuffed an entire organization in his back pocket.
The Canucks veterans banning video games from road trips has been one of the better stories of the offseason. Not because it’s a great idea or anything like that. But because the Canucks were dog shit last year and they should probably focus on more things to make sure they’re not ass again this year instead of blaming video games for all their problems. They were 31-40-11. Luckily there were plenty of other disastrous teams that kept them from being in the basement, but they weren’t even close to being in a playoff spot last year. Their season was over by the trade deadline but sure, if it wasn’t for video games, they would have been Western Conference Champs.
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Patrik Laine sees right through the bullshit and doesn’t give a single damn about calling them out about it. A rookie was their top goal scorer and top point scorer last year, and Boeser only played in 62 games. Guy missed practically a fourth of the season and still had more points than everybody besides Daniel Sedin who he was tied with at 55 points. Next on the list was Henrik with 50. Both of the Sedins are gone now so why would Patrik Laine has quite literally nothing to fear about chirping them to death here. He even twisted the knife a little deeper, too.
That’s not a co-signing of the idea that banning video games will make the team better. That’s a “yeah, if we ever suck that much ass then we’ll try to break out any excuse we can find too”. They’re laughing at the Canucks, not with them.
Patrik Laine probably plays more Fortnite than anybody else in the NHL and he had the 2nd most goals in the league last year behind only Alex Ovechkin. But sure, Michael Del Zotto knows more about what it takes to be successful in the National Hockey League and that means no video games.
P.S. – Willing to put a paycheck down on Laine breaking out some sort of Fortnite dance as a celebration the next time he scores against Vancouver.