Reel reporters Jeremy Rutherford and Murat Ates anticipate The Athleticin pages of the Winnipeg Jets and St. Louis Blues between playoff series.Patrik Laine gunpowder has been wet since November. AOP

One of a series of the most interesting of the players has Patrik Laine . Everybody knows the Finnish goal scoring potential, but recently the lord paint the faucet has been badly clogged.

Laine wrong with 19 goals in the regular season of 22 in the first game, but after November he’s been hit only nine times. In the end the regular season goal to become ”only” 30.

Atesin according to one of the reasons scoring difficulties found in the dominance game. Skipper Blake Wheeler is not able to feed the Billows as well as the start of the season. It’s all downhill immediately after that, when Laine had the problem been five goals to the St. Louis network on November 24. day.

until then, Laine’s shot an average of 28 times 60 dominance per minute. After the trigger number has dropped by 19.9 shot 60 dominance per minute. After the trigger number falls to 30%, paint in the number the fall, Ates to reason.

start to the season with Laine pyssytti dominance of the paint, often directly to wheeler’s cross, but recently, the same pattern is not much to see.

Teams have started to take it away from him, Ates know.

And Laine have found new ways to score.

He could not yet 20 years of age to ride roughshod over opponents in its path or to beat their creativity such as Aleksander Ovetshkin .

Laine trigger volumes have dropped radically also the balance viisikoin. Atesin according to Finnish has fired five goals of a cannon night after up to 40 per cent less than in the early season.

the Gloomy statistics, despite the finns should not forget the spring playoffs.

Laine’s shot is still so super good, that all can change in an instant.

Blues on a sled,

Ates and Rutherford are going through the pre-its also a lot of other things, one of which the key is the team of the fitness curves. They are sticking out in completely different directions: St. Louis is currently hot, the Jets again ice cold. This is also reflected in suppliers ‘ assessments, when they consider a series of winners.

Ates believes that the Blues will go to the series of shortlist, if the team play as well as lately, and the goalie Jordan binning the to maintain their level.

Also Rutherford’s St. Louis facing tilted, but he gave Jetsille a small seam. Rutherford says the Jets can go on the shortlist, if Wheeler and Mark Scheifele play cannon spring.

the Jets win the division if they can beat St. Louis ‘ best players and keep up with the pace of the game. Winnipeg’s Stanley Cup window depends on these two men, both of which require magical game. If they can’t do it, the Blues is good enough to hit that window shut.

the Jets and blues in between playoff series kicks off early Thursday morning. The puck fell in the ice Bell MTS Place at 3: 00 Finnish time.

Atesin and Rutherford’s analysis you can read in full here.

Patrik Laine JetsTV:vibe life when he was hit 30. the goal this season.