Please.  Jonas Siegel is president of the Leafs Nation Fan Club, so his gushing thrice-weekly (minimum) fawning columns on all things Your Leafs, give it a rest man.

Um, anybody who wants to check out the stats for other 18-year olds in NHL history, easy to find, and should anybody do that, they will quickly realize that most of this column is just pumping the kid's tires.  For crying out loud, Laine has superior stats just for this year.

But Laine doesn't play for Siegel's favourite team, so naturally, crickets about him.

Hey, nobody's saying that Matthews ain't good; the kid can play, he's a keeper.  But he can't carry McDavid's jockstrap, on this or any other day ending in the letter y.

A little perspective, please.  This column is so far over the top, it's unreal.