When everything seems to have gone to flames and is nothing but ash and dust…sometimes… just sometimes a tiny spark is still left over. For the Canucks that spark might just be Elias Pettersson. For everything that went wrong during an embarrassing third period for the Canucks game on Saturday at Rogers Arena before their 5-1 loss, the only player who seemed to be engaged and trying his best to assemble his teammates was Elias Pettersson.
Elias Pettersson addresses the media following the game against the Sabres.@theprovince | #Canucks pic.twitter.com/Yp21nxt1ER
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Despite the 6 game losing streak, Pettersson has done what he could every game thus far to engage the rest of the team to work together. He assisted Kuzmenko and Podkolzim to generate all six chances at goal that the Canucks mustered in the first period against the Buffalo Sabres. If they both hadn’t missed the open nets that occurred in the second period, they may have been able to turn the game around.
He is one of the youngest members of the Canucks, at just 23 years old, but he is a mature team player as well as being one of our best. If there is any hope for a win on Tomorrow evenings game against the Carolina Hurricanes it rests in his gloves.