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RW/C Elias Pettersson - Växjö Lakers HC, SHL (2017, 5th, VAN) Part 3
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As phenomenal as he has looked with the puck offensively, his defensive zone positioning , awareness and decision making have been very impressive to me.
Canucks are asking a lot from him playing up the middle right away and he is passing that test with flying colors so far
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at this moment its 3-2 Oilers, 9:00 minutes remaining he could have had 4 assists at the moment.
but again, it's only pre season.
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What I watched today confirmed what many people had repeated.
EP plays a style that reminds me so much of Datsyuk.
He could legit had like 4 points in his first game
EP plays a style that reminds me so much of Datsyuk.
He could legit had like 4 points in his first game
True Franchise level Talent. Will be a #1 Centre for Canucks.
I'd compare his game to Barkov's, so good at both ends of the ice.
I'd compare his game to Barkov's, so good at both ends of the ice.
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This dude is the real deal. I like a lot of the youngsters for Vancouver.
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The Canucks are dying for some skill which makes a guy like EP standout even more but he had an impressive first game. What makes him so good is his intelligence. He had some dangles and stuff but I was really impressed by just his reads on the ice.
EX: The first shift after EDM's 2nd goal, he anticipated an incoming pass (coming out of the EDM zone into the middle of the ice) and intercepted it before the player who passed the puck was even beginning to make the play. Then later in the shift he made a nice stretch pass from pretty low in his own zone to spring Baertschi on a rush.
The backdoor pass to Goldobin on Talbot's great glove save looked like a Henrik Sedin play. And whenever he had the puck on the PP you just felt like something good was going to happen. I can't wait to see the PP with Boeser & EP.
He was also very good positionally in the D zone and did good on the draws. For a guy that didn't play much center last year you wouldn't know it from watching him defensively. Now I expect he'll have his struggles against some great center's as the season goes on, but it was a good start.
Its only the first game of pre-season but I'm definitely anticipating him being a big part of this team right away like Boeser last year.
EX: The first shift after EDM's 2nd goal, he anticipated an incoming pass (coming out of the EDM zone into the middle of the ice) and intercepted it before the player who passed the puck was even beginning to make the play. Then later in the shift he made a nice stretch pass from pretty low in his own zone to spring Baertschi on a rush.
The backdoor pass to Goldobin on Talbot's great glove save looked like a Henrik Sedin play. And whenever he had the puck on the PP you just felt like something good was going to happen. I can't wait to see the PP with Boeser & EP.
He was also very good positionally in the D zone and did good on the draws. For a guy that didn't play much center last year you wouldn't know it from watching him defensively. Now I expect he'll have his struggles against some great center's as the season goes on, but it was a good start.
Its only the first game of pre-season but I'm definitely anticipating him being a big part of this team right away like Boeser last year.
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I have a stream source for everything. I purposely tuned in to watch him. He had flashes of brilliance but also head shaking gaffes, like falling over during a one timer.
He was good... just these comments were reading as if he was the best player on the ice. Im sure im being critical, he's a rookie
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His gaffes were both times he fell over, that was it. Him needing toto gain strength isn't something new. There weren't any glaring positional mistakes or terrible turnovers where he was trying to make a play. He fell over on a one-timer as you said, and then on the last PP I think he reached for a puck that changed direction (or something along those lines) and fell over IIRC.
He was one of the best players tonight. Prob the Canucks best player in this game. Him or one of his linemates anyways. I'd throw Talbot in there too for both teams.
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It's not I don't believe you, I'm just looking for a new source, since rogers game centre live is no longer available for me, lol .
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He was the best Canuck in the game, I think he was, Bo was great but I think Pettersson was better. Goldobin had enough chances for a hatrick because of Pettersson
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Caggiula for Pettersson.
Don't even think about it, just do it! It'll work out for everyone!
Nah, you gets have a stunner there. Looks very good.
Don't even think about it, just do it! It'll work out for everyone!
Nah, you gets have a stunner there. Looks very good.
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Well he set up goldy for a wide open net and missed.
He set up goldy again and he got robbed with the save of the year
He made strome look awful, and got a bad pass to the legs and fell down.
He had a breakaway where he just blew by an oiler, and just barely got poke checked.
I counted at least 5 big scoring chances, and 3 should have been easy points.
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