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Originally Posted by Henry Fool
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.
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I trust the Flames to do their due diligence re Laine's character 'issues'.