Blue Jackets players, coaches at odds with Columbus fans who hope the team finishes with the best chance to draft Connor Bedard: 'It's just wrong'
Laine is no stranger to draft hype.
He was picked second overall in 2016 by the Winnipeg Jets, one slot after the Toronto Maple Leafs took Matthews and one before , so he knows what it’s like for Bedard, a center who’s tearing up the junior-level Western Hockey League for the Regina Pats.“I’ve only got one perspective, and it’s as a player,” Laine, 24, said. “It’s just not right for your own fans to want you to lose just to get a player who’s … it’s not like it’s guaranteed he’s going to be ‘sick,’ even though he probably has all the tools to become a really good player in this league. It’s just wrong.
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