Player Discussion Elias Pettersson - A Forward Who Scores

[poler]

Pretty much out of the gate last season folks (myself included) thought that even though he was putting up points he looked like he was somewhat clearly playing with an injury due to how laboured his skating looked. IIRC, at some point Tocchet also implied he was banged up, there was some media speculation, and he had some maintenance days in like November or December or something last year, too.

I thought, and still think TBH, that he looked like a player with some kind of abdominal or back injury. I don't know that I necessarily think that's actually the case, but I definitely think he looks like it.

Beyond that, I also think it's a bit bizarre how little speculation there seems to be around it, and how much the media seems to be kind of treating this with kid gloves relative to what you might expect.

At my work someone told me about soccer player Ronaldo and he signed a massive contract and was dealing with an injury at the time. There was so much pressure to perform from the team they kept him playing even though he wasn’t 100%. Of course he wasn’t the same player and couldn’t perform up try to his contract.

Till this day even though he is rich he’s fighting depression from his poor play before he retired. It kind of reminds me the situation with Petterson, I don’t have faith in our medical staff with bad reputation of past players example being Cody Hodgson.

 

[CanucksSayEh]

Some goldfish memories around here. This song has been playing since the very start of last season.

Game 3, opening road trip. Myers hits EP with a point shot in the shin vs Philly. Game 4, Myers runs into EP on the PK vs Tampa. This was mid October, and the unwashed masses pointed to those moments as the reason for EP's soft, weak play all the way through Christmas. Some of his worst games came early in the season. It wasn't a drop off after January, it was a PEAK IN JANUARY.

The points were there for everyone early on, but EP looked exactly like he does now (plus all of 20-21, 21-22 and every PP in 22-23)

Blamed Myers, blamed Mikheyev, blamed the looming contract talks. There were literally posters blaming his change in brand of stick,..

Late October, home game vs Rags, EP was flopping all over the place, sabotaged 5 powerplays, the refs rolled their eyes when he faceplanted from the smallest of contact in OT to turn the puck over on the gwg against.

That mid-late November game vs the Avs? Fell on every scoring chance, got absolutely abused by Makar like 3 times in 5 seconds, just moped back to the bench.

This thread was echoed in every other game thread back then, receipts are all there. Just search 'bambi' and grab some popcorn.

Also painfully obvious, announcers are 100% trying to steer fan sentiment right now by praising every touch of the puck he makes. That's where we're at folks.

 

[VanJack]

Wow! Hockey's network insiders are really giving it to Elias Pettersson......the latest to take a run at hime was Craig Button on TSN, who said he isn't beginning to earn his inflated salary. And the pressure on him will only keep building until he shows something.

I really hope the guy can shut out all the background noise, and stay off social media until things start to turn around for him.