Hockey|Raimo Summanen addresses the mill around Patrik Laine.
Star striker Patrik Laine26, accommodation arrangements in the four-country tournament of NHL players have become a topic in Montreal, Canada.
Laine represents Montreal Canadiens at club team level and lives together with his engagement Jordan Leighin With Montreal’s old town.
But will Laine stay at home during the top tournament or with the rest of the team? This question has now been discussed in the media.
Over the years, team sports have had an idea and practice that team members should stay together in the name of unity.
Patrik Laine, 26, is a huge interest in Montreal.
For accommodation For one reason or another, there is no clear answer from Laine himself, and the Lions team at all.
Laine himself did not want to comment on the matter in any way when asked about it on Tuesday after the Lions exercises.
Finnish head coach Antti Pennanen46, in turn, was reported on Wednesday.
“Now I can’t answer that exactly where he spends his time. It is important to me that he is with the team when he is here. In the morning we were for breakfast together, that is a good thing, ”Pennanen said.
Lions head coach Antti Pennanen, 46, has answered media questions in Montreal.
Species expert Raimo Summanen approaching the matter for the team’s internal rules and professionalism.
“We do not know what the team has agreed within the team.”
“And at all, the idea is that you make yourself preparing yourself to play with the team as well as the most important, that is, the game is at hand. Every Pro-Jätkä knows that. In this case, it is generally about individual freedom and individual responsibility, ”says Summanen.
Eventually Only extracts in the rink mean.
“The way and where you come to the match is in a way a slogan. That game and gaming look essential in professional sports. What the team has agreed to play and what you look like in the rink itself is ultimately the essential thing, ”says Summanen.
Patrik Laine in Lions practice in Montreal.
Generally speaking, Summanen sees that in recent years, there has been flexibility in professional sports in how tight the team has to be clearly outside of mandatory events, such as game meetings, assemblies, matches and workouts.
“When we are at joint events for the team, the eye must shine. It’s a clear starting point. But otherwise there may be flexibility. ”
“An important thing here – without knowing the ultimate truth of whether or not Laine stay at home during the tournament – is that he is doing well. And of course it is also important that the whole team is doing well and not disturbed – no matter what the arrangement. ”
Patrik Laine and Jordan Leigh photographed in their Montreal apartment this year before the national team tournament started.
Sum A bit of pondering the Lions’ attitude towards questions about Laine’s accommodation.
“Each team creates its own systems in their tournaments, including in these matters. After all, we talk a lot about openness in modern times, and this case also shows that there will be surveys and then the situation begins to live a little. Could the surveys only answer that this is a team’s internal issue and not outside it? But what may be followed by it or does anything follow? ”
“I and certainly many others would like to focus on what happens in the rink, but of course I understand that these things are of interest and are important for team dynamics,” says Summanen, a former Lions head coach.
“On the other hand, if this is constantly being raised, this can become a team that strengthens the unity of the team. The team’s guys laugh with each other that this Patrik’s accommodation is still thirsty for Come, ”there are these games here.
Raimo Summanen, 62, is an ex-head coach of the Lions and a former NHL hockey player.
Finnish Play the first two matches of the tournament in Montreal. On Monday, the Lions will meet in Boston, Canada.
“I don’t think Laine will stay in Montreal as games continue in Boston,” Summanen, an expert, says.