Player Discussion Marcus Pettersson

[bob77]

Ate 26 minutes of icetime like it was nothing and barely put a foot wrong. Sign him ASAP.

It was a weird game to understand how he’ll basically be utilized. No Quinn. Like no penalties. Well, one. He did PK the Forbort penalty. How much will he PK? Has to be better at it than Soucy. Probably no PP minutes…. Quinn eats them up. Who will be second unit D? He’ll never play with Quinn. He’s left handed. Not like at Pittsburgh and getting to play with Karlsonn

Yea it's actually the other way around. Karlsson's performance dipped drastically away from Pettersson. Was always a real stabilizing presence for Karlsson, Letang, etc. Whoever he was put with ended up as our best pairing. I know he'll do well there.

Nice words, but we don’t have a right handed offensive minded D for him to settle down or stabilize. Just saying….

 

[Blue and Green]

Good player. I'd sign him for five or six years. He can have a full NTC or even full NMC for the first two seasons (but expiring prior to the 2027 draft). At that point, they should have a good idea of what they have in E Pettersson and if they think that he can handle second-pair duties then Marcus can be moved.

 

[Jyrki21]

Welcome to Vancouver MP3

Can we really not get him to take #3? It's available -- which is unusual to begin with -- and a prized single-digit number for defensemen. Anyone wearing Gino's number always seems a bit off.

 

[MS]

Can we really not get him to take #3? It's available -- which is unusual to begin with -- and a prized single-digit number for defensemen. Anyone wearing Gino's number always seems a bit off.

It's super weird that 2, 3, 4, and 5 are all available and have been available since the start of the 23-24 season and none of the new defender acquisitions over the last two years have taken any of them. Poolman I guess was technically #5 until being dumped in the Brannstrom deal.

The last player to wear #4 was Madison Bowey back in 2021, which is crazy.

 

[StreetHawk]

It's super weird that 2, 3, 4, and 5 are all available and have been available since the start of the 23-24 season and none of the new defender acquisitions over the last two years have taken any of them. Poolman I guess was technically #5 until being dumped in the Brannstrom deal.

The last player to wear #4 was Madison Bowey back in 2021, which is crazy.

The Current D, for their careers, Hronek has been #17 in Det, Hughes brothers like 43, Soucy has been 7, Pettersson has been 28 in both Ana/Pitt and that wasn't available here for Bourdon, Forbert has worn 27 before, Juhlsson has worn 47 before.

Wallinder wears 5 in BU, so that's available for him once he signs. D. Petey has taken 25.

Sometimes like in the old days we get a rush on single digits like with Ohlund/Hamhuis, Bieksa/Sopel, Ballard, Salo, etc. Right now, not so much. Seeing more skaters take something above 29.

Could very well be a D core of 43, 29, 25 on left with 17, 5, and whatever Mancini takes in the near future as the starting 6. He wore 23 in Hartford. No clue what he wore with NYR. 20, 26 are open and I guess 23 since Lekky isn’t a regular.

 

[FuzzyTitus]

Didn't realize he played almost 26 minutes yesterday. If him and Hughes can chew up 50 minutes of LD together leaving just 10 for Forbot, Soucy, or whomever, that's a massive win.

 

[StreetHawk]

Didn't realize he played almost 26 minutes yesterday. If him and Hughes can chew up 50 minutes of LD together leaving just 10 for Forbot, Soucy, or whomever, that's a massive win.

Since Hughes didn't play, there were more minutes available. Last pairing you typically expect to get in the low to mid teens depending on the player. There is probably 45-47 minutes between the top 2 guys to play, leaving 13-15 minutes for the last pairing. Right side, since only Hughes plays PP1 for Dmen, only need to allocate like 42-44 minutes (about 3 minutes less) for the top 2. Can go more if they want.