Elias Pettersson speaks out for the first time since the season ended
Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Pettersson says he's looking forward to 2024-25 and that the team has "something good going on".
Elias Pettersson is back in Sweden recovering from the 2023-24 season and the knee injury he dealt with from January onwards. While in Sweden, Pettersson is also coaching at the EP40 skills camp and met with the media recently, saying that he's looking forward to next season and that life in Vancouver is great.
Pettersson also went to say that the team has something good going on right now, with the players, coaches and management staff they have. He added that now the team has to build on the success they had last season after nearly reaching their first Western Conference Final since 2011.
"Life in Vancouver is great, we have something good going on now. We have very good players, good coaches, our new general manager Patrick Allvin, and since president Jim Rutherford came here, the club has been turned upside down for the better. We were close to reaching a conference final in the season that was, but now it's just a matter of building on" Pettersson said.
For his part, Pettersson was over a point-per-game player for the second consecutive season despite the fact he saw his point total drop by nearly 13% from the 2022-23 campaign. In 82 games, the Sundsvall native had 89 points (34 goals, 55 assists), 12 penalty minutes and was a plus-20.
The Canucks made some big changes this summer with Elias Lindholm, Nikita Zadorov and Ian Cole leaving the organization, while Jake DeBrusk, Danton Heinen, Derek Forbort and others were brought in. Rick Tocchet's group should certainly be in the mix for first place in the Pacific Division late in the 2024-25 season, as they were last season. Losing players like Lindholm, Zadorov and Cole hurt, but Patrik Allvin did a solid job at finding replacements on the free agent market.
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Elias Pettersson: "Vi har något bra på gång nu»
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JUILLET 13 | 1392 ANSWERS Elias Pettersson speaks out for the first time since the season ended Will the Canucks reach the Western Conference Final next season? | ||
| Yes | 1098 | 78.9 % |
| No | 294 | 21.1 % |
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