Elias Pettersson rencontre les médias 10.05.22 après une victoire de pré-saison 5-4 contre les Oilers d’Edmonton @ Abbotsford BC

3 Comments

1. cash macgregor 2 ans ago

   better team effort tonight. looks like miller may have some issue which may be why he's been invisible so far. i was really impressed with oman, a player no one talked about all summer. .714 save percentage isn't going to win very many games. EP was brilliant.

2. Chris Thornycroft 2 ans ago

   If he can stay healthy, he should be good for 80-90 points. The big question for me is whether or not he's a centre. To be a top line centre in the NHL, you can't be sub-50% on face-offs. He has to get better there, or he's a winger. And since we have Miller and Horvat who can take face-offs, maybe he's better suited to the wing. This 3 scoring lines thing is cute, and certainly you need secondary and tertiary scoring, but that's a very 80s way of thinking. Unfortunately, the way the team is built and continues to be built, the Canucks are going to have to outscore a lot of their deficiencies and rely heavily on their goaltending. What we saw tonight is, sadly, probably how they're going to have to win a lot of games – hope their goaltending can bail them out (it almost didn't tonight, it was a detriment in fact) and keep coming with the offence. Obviously, they weren't playing with a full NHL roster, but that's still the reality this year. The back end isn't strong enough. This team might be able to take the last wildcard spot (which I hate saying because it sounds like I'm talking about football or baseball – thanks, Gary), but if they get to the playoffs, they could be done almost immediately unless Demko literally stands on his head. Defense wins championships and this team is being treated like they're contenders and they're clearly not. If this was 1982, they'd have a shot, but it isn't. It's 2022.

3. Cory John 2 ans ago

   Elias should break 100 pts if he has a good season. Once he starts getting multiple points in a game.