Former Vancouver Canuck Jannik Hansen Gets Brutally Honest About Elias Pettersson's Play This Season

"Yeah that's tough to watch because again, that's where he's getting paid. He's getting paid to play like MacKinnon and he's not. You were mentioning they [MacKinnon, Makar, Necas] were dangerous all night and I saw that too, I think everybody saw that. That's what you're hoping for from Pettersson because if he finds that form he had, that's a long time ago, it's a year ago that he played at that level, then this team is a whole other conversation. So it's frustrating because he's such an integral part of this team. You need your number one center, you need your highest paid player to perform and right now that's missing." Hansen said.

"It just adds on top that you're moving J.T. [Miller], that was kind of playing up to his standards, yeah his production could be a little bit better, but at least you could see that he was there, he was engaged, he was intense. It looked like he cared what happened. Sometimes that's missing with Petey. I know they're two different personalities, two different types of players, but when players aren't performing, at least show me that you care. Go out there and run somebody. Do something that's within your control. You can't control bounces, you can't control whether or not you're scoring on your scoring chances, but look like you're working your tail off to get back to where we feel you should be." Hansen said.