Player Discussion Elias Pettersson - A Forward Who Scores

[arttk]

so what did we learn from this "power outage"? that he can spiral when he doesnt feel it? that he was indeed hampered by an injury? or that social media f***s you up?

I want to give it another 2 weeks to make sure its not a mirage.

Still don’t think he’s recovered. Wrister still MIA, you don’t see him carry the puck with speed dekeing people, the wrap around is not back. I think he’s finding new ways to contribute which is go to the net to tip and jam which is good but this is not back to normal Petey.

For those who continue to argue Petey is not injured and management would not play him if he was, please refer to the current Miller situation.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Absolutely huge opportunity for Petey to step up and take the reins of this team here with JT out.

 

[SillyRabbit]

Absolutely huge opportunity for Petey to step up and take the reins of this team here with JT out.

Run everything through him.

Top line. Best wingers. Make him the primary option on the PP. All of the offensive zone starts.

If there’s one thing we should try to accomplish during this period, it’s to get him back to being a 100 point player.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Reunite Petey with Boeser, when is Brock back? Still day to day?

DeBrusk-Pettersson-Boeser
Hoglander-Suter-Lekkerimaki
Joshua-Blueger-Garland
Heinen-Raty-Sherwood

 

[Canuckle1970]

Reunite Petey with Boeser, when is Brock back? Still day to day?

DeBrusk-Pettersson-Boeser
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This was Brock's first day back on the ice - but with the other injured players. Small steps.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

This was Brock's first day back on the ice - but with the other injured players. Small steps.

Yeah just saw that, some good news for the Canucks

https://x.com/i/web/status/1858959239601156134

 

[Bgav]

2 points in the first period vs the rangers. Looks like himself.

 

[LemonSauceD]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1859121489011789853

 

[Breakers]

100% mental

 

[arttk]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1859121489011789853

and the defense is shitting the bed

100% mental

40% mental
60% injuries

 

[mriswith]

Articles are getting written about Miller needing to take a break to "reset mentally" at least partially because of injuries and people still think EP's slump was 100% mental and 0% his documented chronic injury that coincided perfectly with the timeline of his slump and interfered with his offseason training...

 

[Wisp]

Articles are getting written about Miller needing to take a break to "reset mentally" at least partially because of injuries and people still think EP's slump was 100% mental and 0% his documented chronic injury that coincided perfectly with the timeline of his slump and interfered with his offseason training...

it's kind of ironic, people who were trashing pettersson as mentally soft a month ago while celebrating miller is a warrior, only today to have pettersson grind his way out of the slump while their hero is taking leave for a reset.

this sort of rhetoric is reductive, of course, they're both fine hockey players and an 82 game season is a grind, not to mention some organizational clandestine element with injuries at play.

 

[maroon 6]

Reunite Petey with Boeser, when is Brock back? Still day to day?

DeBrusk-Pettersson-Boeser
Hoglander-Suter-Lekkerimaki
Joshua-Blueger-Garland
Heinen-Raty-Sherwood

It boggles my mind that we once had Pettersson, Miller and Horvat down the middle and couldn’t even make the playoffs

 

[Tinhorn1]

Articles are getting written about Miller needing to take a break to "reset mentally" at least partially because of injuries and people still think EP's slump was 100% mental and 0% his documented chronic injury that coincided perfectly with the timeline of his slump and interfered with his offseason training...

It's fine to have an opinion, obviously, but I find it deeply strange when people are so adamant one way or the other in the face of uncertainty, as well as countervailing evidence that so obviously muddies the picture.

 

[Regal]

Reunite Petey with Boeser, when is Brock back? Still day to day?

DeBrusk-Pettersson-Boeser
Hoglander-Suter-Lekkerimaki
Joshua-Blueger-Garland
Heinen-Raty-Sherwood

I think Sherwood deserves a chance to stay up with Pettersson over DeBrusk for now anyway

 

[poler]

Articles are getting written about Miller needing to take a break to "reset mentally" at least partially because of injuries and people still think EP's slump was 100% mental and 0% his documented chronic injury that coincided perfectly with the timeline of his slump and interfered with his offseason training...

It boggles my mind that some people think a professional athlete will lie to the media and say he was was injured. It’s obvious it affected him he was on 120 point pace and looked dominant. Then suddenly his shot was less effective and his skating speed went down

Look at miller he was dealing with something for a while now and couldn’t take faceoffs and was less effective but was still playing through it. It’s culture like this is why we put our record before the players health and being able to be 100%. Demko dealing with injuries for the past few years and we don’t know if it’s from his play style or is overworked.

 

[strattonius]

A lot of you guys are really just trying to create this polarizing and political war between our own fans on here that you either have to be on Miller or Pettersson's side. They're not even the same thing at all it reminds me of American politics.

I'll preface by saying Pettersson has looked fantastic the last 5 or so games. Truly so encouraging and great news. It has nothing to do with Miller and we should all just take his recent pkay as a giant W in what feels like a very tumultuous year so far.

Perhaps all this early adversity will help the team in the long run. Could say it had an effect on the Oilers last year while we basically just skipped merrily along through the season with little to no adversity.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

it's kind of ironic, people who were trashing pettersson as mentally soft a month ago while celebrating miller is a warrior, only today to have pettersson grind his way out of the slump while their hero is taking leave for a reset.

this sort of rhetoric is reductive, of course, they're both fine hockey players and an 82 game season is a grind, not to mention some organizational clandestine element with injuries at play.

It really is.