Laine’s Health Opens A New Canucks-Style Debate

Patrik Laine’s situation has turned into the kind of mess that gets every suit in the league talking. He was healthy enough to play, and that makes the questions around his season even louder than the injury report ever did. When a player clears a return window and still never gets back in, teams know the optics can get ugly fast. The real issue now is what his status says about the way the Canadiens handled the whole thing.