Columbus Blue Jackets Cancel Tribute Video For Patrik Laine After Shocking Comments
Patrik Laine disparaged the Columbus Blue Jackets ahead of their Monday night matchup, and now the team have revealed that it caused a major change for them ahead of the highly anticipated return.
The Columbus Blue Jackets traded Patrik Laine this past off-season, and ahead of his first matchup against them with the Montreal Canadiens, he's stirred up plenty of drama.
Ahead of that contest, it was the following comments that riled up not only Blue Jackets players, but the organization as well;
"I'll leave that for everybody's imagination," said the Canadiens forward. "But there were certainly, certainly people like that who were a little too comfortable and fine with losing and just doing the same thing year after year. I'm going to leave that up for discussion for everybody else."
Veteran defenseman Zach Werenski was quick to fire back at Laine, and now, another consequence of his comments has surfaced.
«We were nothing but good teammates to him. For him to come in and say that is bullshit. Definitely not happy about it and none of us in this room are happy about it. It speaks more about him than it does us.»
«What's he thinking saying that? It's just incredible.»
According to a report, the team planned a tribute video for Laine after his three years with the team, but after his shocking comments on his time there, they rescinded that idea very quickly in the afternoon before the game.
This entire saga has been a shocking one from Laine's comments to Werenski's response, and while Laine didn't spend too long in Columbus, his departure and these comments could lead to a very long rivalry between these two teams with Laine involved.
