Elias Pettersson is Vancouver Canucks only All Star!
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For some it may come as a surprise that Elias Pettersson is the only All Star on the Vancouver Canucks this year.
The team is full of big names and individual superstars. J.T Miller, Quinn Hughes, and more all have All Star team potential.
However, it’s those players inability to play as a team and get some wins in the regular season, that inevitably excluded them from the All Star team this year.
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Elias Pettersson has made the trip to Florida all by himself after being named the teams only All Star. He will compete in the All Star games itself and the Hardest Shot event.
This will be Pettersson’s second time competing in the Hardest Shot event, after shocking the competition in his 2020 appearance. Pettersson ended up coming 3rd place being nearly 30 pounds lighter then the rest of the competition.
He will look to shock the world again this time around.
The Canucks almost had two All Stars this year, but they decided to trade team captain Bo Horvat at the start of the All Star break. This weekend will likely be the last time Pettersson and Horvat play together.
You can read about the Canucks trading their team captain here:
Elias Pettersson will have big shoes to fill over the next few weeks, as the Canucks only representative in the game, and carrying the expectation that he will be the Canucks next team captain. If Pettersson preforms like how he has all season though, he’s going to be just fine.
You can watch the NHL All Star game tomorrow night!