Player Discussion Elias Pettersson - Please, Be Civil

[Jerry the great]

Do we really want to see what happens when I suppress my emotions?

DO WE ?!?!?

well now i do.

 

[supercanuck]

Thought he played a quality 2 way game last night. Didn't factor in any offence but his line did a good job defensively and at getting pucks deep.


Miller got the Barkov assignment so not surprising.

They used the D pretty evenly outside of that other than they definitely tried to keep Forbort away from the Panthers top line and threw Hughes in to replace him with Friedman for a bunch of shifts.

Will be interesting as Debrusk Sherwood gives them better 5v5 defensive and match up presence than Kuzmenko Mikhayev or Hoglander Mikhayev. Especially if Hoglander stays with Miller/Boeser

EP got Bennett-Tkachuk. It's pick your poison against the Panthers really. QH's presence is a massive, massive difference.

 

[SillyRabbit]

EP got Bennett-Tkachuk. It's pick your poison against the Panthers really. QH's presence is a massive, massive difference.

Verhaeghe-Barkov-Reinhart is far and away their best line. Reinhart is better than Tkachuk and Barkov is way better than Bennett. Verhaeghe is also better than Rodrigues.

There's a reason why Tocchet pairs Miller with Hughes and it's because he wants to shut down the opponent's best line while also being a threat to score on them.

In theory, Pettersson should be able to fill that role equally as well, but Tocchet seems to trust Miller to do that job better, even after Pettersson played quite well in Miller's absence.

 

[I Hart Conor Garland]

The best thing Pettersson has done so far this season is shut down his social media accounts......the mainstream press you can deal with.......but the on-line trolls, hackers and mean-streeters, you can do without. And unfortunately in a lot of Canadian markets, they're ever present.

Jack, when you say mean-streeter, are you 84 years old?