Patrik Laine

Finland Patrik Laine


Date of birth	April 19, 1998
place of birth	Tampere , Finland
size	194 cm
Weight	95 kg

position	Right wing
number	# 29
Shot hand	Right

Draft

KHL Junior Draft	2015 , 2nd round, 36th position Dinamo Riga
NHL Entry Draft	2016 , 1st round, 2nd position Winnipeg Jets

Career stations

2012-2016	Tappara Tampere
2014-2015	LeKi Lempäälä
since 2016	Winnipeg Jets

Patrik Laine (born April 19, 1998 in Tampere ) is a Finnish ice hockey player on the position of right winger . Since July 2016 he has been under contract with the Winnipeg Jets from the National Hockey League , which selected him in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft in second position.

Career

Laine began playing ice hockey in his hometown with Ilves Tampere at the age of four before moving to Tappara Tampere. There he caused a stir early on when he finished the 2013/14 season as the second youngest player in the U20 team as the league's fifth-best goalscorer. In the following season he made his debut for Tappara in the Liiga , but spent the season mainly with LeKi Lempäälä in the second highest Finnish division, the Mestis . He has been a permanent member of the Tappara squad since the beginning of the 2015/16 season, winning the championship with the team at the end of his first full first division season. He scored 14 points in 17 playoff games , making him the youngest player to date to receive the Jari Kurri trophy as the most valuable player in the playoffs. In addition, he had already led all rookies in goals (17) and points (33) in the regular season , so that he received the Jarmo Wasama commemorative trophy as the best newcomer to the league at the end of the season .

In the subsequent NHL Entry Draft 2016 , the Winnipeg Jets selected him in second position and in July 2016 provided him with an entry contract that guarantees the attacker an annual salary of 3.575 million US dollars. In his first season in the National Hockey League (NHL), Laine set two team records with 36 goals and 64 points as a rookie and was invited to the 2017 NHL All-Star Game and as an NHL rookie during the season February month excellent. In addition, he placed in the rookie scorer list of the league in second place behind Auston Matthews and was nominated for the Calder Memorial Trophy as best rookie, which, however, won in the episode Matthews. However, Laine was elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team .

Laine scored 44 goals in the 2017/18 season, placing him in second place in the league's list of goalscorers behind Alexander Ovetschkin (49). With the Jets he reached the conference finals in the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, but lost to the Vegas Golden Knights there . In the following season 2018/19, however, he did not succeed in building on his previously shown performances, so that in September 2019 he only signed a two-year contract instead of a long-term contract. This is said to bring him an average annual salary of 6.75 million US dollars for the time being, while the Finn will try to increase his value to the team again.

Observers compared Laine with Ilya Kovalchuk and his shooting technique with that of Alexander Ovechkin.

International

Laine took part in the 2015 U18 World Cup with Finland and, as the top scorer, contributed significantly to winning the silver medal. He was also elected to the tournament's all-star team. In 2016 he already played at the U20 World Cup in his own country. Once again he was - together with the US-American Auston Matthews - top scorer of the tournament, also the third best scorer of the tournament and thus played a leading role in winning the title for the Finnish team. Because of these achievements, he was again appointed to the All-Star Team.

A little later, Laine made her debut for the senior national team at the Euro Hockey Tour 2015/16 and is part of the Finnish team at the 2016 Men's Ice Hockey World Championship . He won the silver medal with the team, scored 12 points and was voted Most Valuable Player of the tournament, best striker and part of the All-Star team. A little later he was also part of the Finnish squad at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 , which, however, was eliminated in the group phase.

Achievements and Awards

2016 Finnish champion with Tappara Tampere
2016 Jari Kurri Trophy
2016 Jarmo Wasama commemorative trophy
2017 participation in the NHL All-Star Game

2017 NHL Rookie of the Month for February
2017 NHL All-Rookie Team
2018 NHL Player of the Month for November

International

2015 silver medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
2015 Top scorer in the U18 World Junior Championship
2015 All-Star Team of the U18 Junior World Championship
2016 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
2016 Top scorer in the U20 World Junior Championship (together with Auston Matthews )
2016 All-Star Team of the U20 Junior World Championship

2016 silver medal at the world championship
2016 World Cup top scorer (together with Gustav Nyquist )
2016 Most Valuable Player of the World Cup
2016 best striker in the world championship
2016 World Championship All-Star Team

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

			Regular season					Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2012/13	Tappara Tampere U18	B-Jun. SM-sarja	27	17th	9	26th	6th	3	2	1	3	0
2013/14	Tappara Tampere U18	B-Jun. SM-sarja	5	5	6th	11	2	1	0	1	1	0
2013/14	Tappara Tampere U20	A-Jun. SM-liiga	40	26th	11	37	43	1	0	0	0	0
2014/15	Tappara Tampere U20	A-Jun. SM-liiga	6th	4th	1	5	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Tappara Tampere	Liiga	6th	0	1	1	2	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	LeKi Lempäälä	Mestis	36	5	7th	12	14th	2	0	0	0	2
2015/16	Tappara Tampere	Liiga	46	17th	16	33	6th	17th	9	5	14th	6th
2016/17	Winnipeg Jets	NHL	73	36	28	64	26th	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Winnipeg Jets	NHL	82	44	26th	70	24	17th	5	7th	12	4th
2018/19	Winnipeg Jets	NHL	82	30th	20th	50	42	6th	3	1	4th	0
2019/20	Winnipeg Jets	NHL	68	28	35	63	22nd	1	0	0	0	0
Liiga overall			52	17th	17th	34	8th	17th	9	5	14th	6th
NHL overall			305	138	109	247	114	24	8th	8th	16	4th

International

Represented Finland at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2014	Finland	HIMT	5th place	3	1	0	1	2
2015	Finland	U18 World Cup		7th	8th	3	11	0
2016	Finland	U20 World Cup		7th	7th	6th	13	4th
2016	Finland	WM		10	7th	5	12	4th
2016	Finland	World cup	8th place	3	0	0	0	0
Juniors overall				17th	16	9	25th	6th
Seniors total				13	7th	5	12	4th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹ play-downs / relegation )