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Originally Posted by dammage79
Of course from this side of the world we only get youtube packages of the highly touted Finn players. I'm perfecty happy with either Laine or puljujarvi.
I think I did actually voice a preference of Laine earlier in this thread too IIRC. Has a nose for the net like Bennett, but with that Rantanen size. But then you hear the stories of him getting kicked or national teams and flipping off the coaches (not sure what context or how true that is) and it makes you wonder if it would be safer to take Puljujarvi if you were left with a choice.
In any case. The Flames are on track for Matthews barring a screw job n the lottery. And I'd take him any day of the week over anyone in the draft.
In the end, any one of those 3 if they have the choice I'd be thrilled with.
as long as they avoid taking a D man top 5.
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There's the one incident when he was 16 for which Laine was immediately disciplined. Back then he certainly had a reputation even before that tournament. However I've noticed no reports about bad attitude since. At minimum he realised he was hurting his career.
Personally I think that was already a long time ago in a teenager's life, but I'm not going to say it means nothing. It will make scouts look into his current attitude more closely, but if it looks like he learned his lesson, I don't think it will affect his draft position much if at all.
I don't see any work ethic related problems, just an inflated teenage ego, but in the end you'd have to be in the team with him to really evaluate. In a way a cocky attitude isn't necessarily entirely negative in a player of his type.