“The Finnish forward was in such a bad place at one point that he seriously thought about giving it all up and walking away from hockey completely.
In fact, that’s what Laine recently admitted in a lengthy and excellent interview with Helsingin Sanomat, a Finnish newspaper, where he explained that on multiple occasions, he told his GM and his agents that he was done.
Laine wanted to walk away from the life of a hockey player because of how badly he was struggling.”
– Mathis Therrien