Lane Hutson and Patrik Laine have developed a special chemistry on the Canadiens’ power play this season. Eric Engels explains how it all came together.
MONTREAL — Lane to Laine has been a lethal power-play combination for the Montreal Canadiens this season, and what’s made it so apparently has a mythical element to it.
We wouldn’t have discovered that Thursday if not for Jack Roslovic.
When the Carolina Hurricanes visited the Bell Centre on Feb. 25, we were asking Roslovic if the whole righty-lefty combination mattered when it came to linemates. We were asking because the right-handed centre was about to get some playing time with left-handed winger Mikko Rantanen, who was majorly slumping next to lefty centre Sebastian Aho after so many years of dominating next to righty Nathan MacKinnon.