Just give him the Calder, already.
That long slump some were expecting from Winnipeg Jets rookie Patrik Laine? They may as well have been dreaming of a brown Christmas.
The trouble he was going to have with increased checking and outright nastiness from NHL opposition?
No sign of that, either.
The Finn continues to do what nobody, except maybe Laine himself, expected him to do as an 18-year-old in the best league in the world.
It's to the point where even some of his misses are going in.
Early in Tuesday night's 4-3 shootout loss to Detroit, one of Laine's patented wrist shots glanced off a Detroit stick and past a startled Petr Mrazek for his fifth goal in the last five games -- and 17th in 29 games.