With the 80th overall pick in the third round the Vancouver Canucks selected Elias Pettersson. Now they have two Elias Petterssons.
You have to wonder what will go on Pettersson the second’s jersey if he makes the team. Pettersson was teammates at the tournament with Canucks first round pick Jonathan Lekkerimäki. “We are sitting here and we can see the Canucks are picking soon,” said Pettersson’s agent Joakim Persson to CHEK TV’s Rick Dhaliwal. “This is Elias’s favourite team, it’s a dream come true for him.
The Vancouver Canucks selected Swedish defenceman Elias Pettersson with the 80th overall pick in the 2022 NHL Draft. No, seriously.
You're not misreading that headline. It's day two of the 2022 NHL Draft in Montreal, and with their second pick, the Vancouver Canucks have selected ...
“We are sitting here and we can see the Canucks are picking soon,” Pettersson’s agent Joakim Persson told Rick Dhaliwal. “This is Elias’s favourite team, it’s a dream come true for him. He earned himself 17 SHL contests and popped offensively in the J20 playoffs. Coming in at 6’2” and 185 pounds, Pettersson is a bigger defenceman whose number one asset is his shot.
The Vancouver Canucks used a third-round draft pick to pick up a second player named Elias Pettersson.
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We have ourselves a right-life Spider-Man meme folks. The Canucks used the No. 80 overall pick to draft Swedish defenseman Elias Pettersson, giving them two ...
But it's going to be quite fun for Canucks fans to root for two Elias Petterssons. He spent the last two seasons with Örebro HK's organization, playing 37 games with their U20 team and 17 games with their SHL club. Despite the fact that the two are from the same country and share the same name, the younger Pettersson has yet to meet the Canucks stars.
The Vancouver Canucks got the player they wanted in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft: Elias Pettersson. No, not that Elias Pettersson. The other one.
They’re going to have to put their middle initials in the namebars. Most importantly, he spent some time in the SHL, a good sign for a teenaged defenceman. He has the tools to potentially beat the first forechecker at the next level and initiate the rush.” “He is too casual with some of his passes in the defensive zone,” says Draftin Europe. “For a player his size, Pettersson needs to better engage in battles.” He makes subtle and effective outlet passes to his center on the breakout. This year’s Elias Pettersson is a defenceman from Örebro HK in the SHL and he’s a very different player from the Elias Pettersson the Canucks already have.