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Patrik Laine has no knee injury, says Kent Hughes

Originally posted on Dose.ca | Last updated Oct 23, 2025 9:53 PM ET

Patrik Laine’s injury arrived suddenly and what was supposed to be a day-to-day assessment quietly became more serious.No one knows exactly what the injury is, but Kent Hughes has revealed that his forward doesn’t have a knee injury like last season.This was reported by Jonathan Bernier in a Journal de Montréal text on Thursday.

“It’s something completely new” https://t.co/AsW68RtmQy

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Kent Hughes explained that this is something completely new in Laine’s case.It was already known that Laine had sought a second opinion for his injury assessment, which wasn’t necessarily a good sign.The Finnish forward did not accompany the Canadiens on their trip out West.More details to follow.

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