Player Discussion Elias Pettersson - Please, Be Civil

[PuckMunchkin]

Are you talking about Draisaitl? He is right now playing better than Pettersson? Delusion.

We can agree to disagree friend

 

[Bobby9]

We can agree to disagree friend

 

[JT Milker]

We can agree to disagree friend

I just can’t fathom how anyone could have watched our series last year and think these two players are comparable other than in cap hit.

 

[Bobby9]

I just can’t fathom how anyone could have watched our series last year and think these two players are comparable other than in cap hit.

Don’t try to find rationale in an irrational statement.

 

[nowhereman]

At this point, I'm done expecting anything consistent from Pettersson other than inconsistency. I'm not sure there's another star player in recent memory who has been more up-and-down—season-to-season, year-to-year. Just hoping this dreaded patellar tendonitis finally heals one of these years.

 

[Ernie]

Surprise surprise, JT Miller comes back and gets the Quinn Hughes ice time treatment and now Pettersson can't get the puck.

Pettersson is a star but no player can do it all on their own. Every successful star forward has a puck moving defenceman helping to generate zone time. What Pettersson has behind him on a nightly basis is absolutely atrocious.

Pettersson has every right to be unhappy about this. He carried the team in JT's absence and now the fans are out for him again.

 

[nowhereman]

Surprise surprise, JT Miller comes back and gets the Quinn Hughes ice time treatment and now Pettersson can't get the puck.

Pettersson is a star but no player can do it all on their own. Every successful star forward has a puck moving defenceman helping to generate zone time. What Pettersson has behind him on a nightly basis is absolutely atrocious.

Pettersson has every right to be unhappy about this. He carried the team in JT's absence and now the fans are out for him again.

So the team just handed out the biggest contract in franchise history to a guy whose performance is entirely dictated by playing with a specific defenseman?

At this point, it's hard to track all of the excuses.

 

[Ernie]

So the team just handed out the biggest contract in franchise history to a guy whose performance is entirely dictated by playing with a specific defenseman?

At this point, it's hard to track all of the excuses.

Every single star player has a puck moving defenceman.

Pettersson cannot be expected to go end to end on every shift. This is a failure of coaching and management.