Quoting: oneX
Your opinion is yours and if you choose to be misinformed then so be it. This league and the GMs that operate under it have used league comparables for a long time and that's not about to change overnight.
Laine's comparable is Rantanen (Rantanen does have better talent on his line btw) and what one gets..the other will get similar numbers.
I suppose Laine can sit the year too but he hurts his own bargaining power in the end.
in your opinion , which is your own but very Naive and based on nothing but pure emotion .
the Facts are as Laine keeps saying , he's 2nd to only Mathews in Scoring among players who've entered the league since 2016-17 .
of the top 5 goal scorer's that signed ahead of him scoring just 1-2 goals more 2/5 signed new deals in the last year
worth 11m +
Rantanen's been in the NHL just as long as Mathews and Laine but took 3 years to reach their goal scoring minimum's in the same time .
its not like MR just missed Mathews and Laine's goal totals either. . . its by 30+ goals aka a season's worth .(dont make excuses about him getting assists while scoring goals , Mathews did that to and signed for 11.6m long term so it would just support my argument )
Rantanen by the time he retire's will have 100+ less goals then Laine in the same time just gauging their current pace .
Laine may never learn to make plays but he'll be a dominant goal scorer for his entire career in the NHL because he's the best player on his line something Rantanen will never be.(i call it the Glen Anderson effect who played with Gretzky and Messier 75% of him career winning 6 cups on 2 teams )