Rutledge222 wrote:
The issue with Leino is that he needs to find a good chemistry with two linemates and then he needs to stay with them. Thats what happened with him in philly. He would bounce around until he started playing with Briere and Hartnell I believe and then became a point producing machine. He just needs to find chemistry. That being said, he needs to hurry the hell up.
Winner winner chicken dinner.
Half of Leino's game seems to come off no look passes, throwing the puck across the ice on the rush, drop passes near the line, etc. If he doesn't have chemistry with his line mates or at least know some of their tendencies, then he's gonna wind up looking really stupid on half these plays. I'm fairly positive part of the reason why Leino struggled mightily in the first half of the season was because Ruff bounced him onto a new line at least every three games, then around the half way point where he was really starting to click with Adam and Kassian, he got injured. The more Leino gets to know the individual tendencies of the players on this team, the better he is going to do.