If you were coach Rick Tocchet, what adjustments would you make to get Elias Pettersson going in this series? Comment your thoughts down below 👇

Not only Pettersson. Hronek has been invisible in the playoffs.

One thing that Bruce did in his time in Van was get Petey back on track.

He deserves all the smoke. Petey is getting paid an absurd amount of money because he’s supposed to be “that guy”, a superstar, the type of forward who can singlehandedly take control of a game or swing momentum at crucial moments. But besides that one PP goal his teammates served up for him, he has been completely invisible in both the Nashville series, and here against Edmonton, not to mention the 2-3 months prior to that in the regular season. You don’t even notice this guy when he’s out on the ice, and when you do, it’s usually because he’s falling, coughing up the puck, or getting absolutely bullied along the boards. Pettersson just has no FIGHT in him, no extra gear to switch to. He’s a very skilled player no doubt, but I just don’t think he’s built for playoff hockey,

Oh that’s the guy on my milk carton…….

he is a west coast Marner lol

$12,000,000 Worth of heat. He said it himself, he wants to be in a playoff contender team. Well, you've got what you wanted, 12MIL and the playoffs, now do something about it or get traded.

As a die hard Canuck fan. Petterson needs to pick it up,

He's still playing? I thought he was on the LTR lol

One problem with Petey is that he's not a Tocchet type player. Neither was Kuzmenko. Tocchet likes guys that are physical, that aren't afraid to get their hands dirty. Petey is a highly skilled player getting pushed around physically and mentally. They need someone on the coaching staff that can get to Petey in a way that Tocchet couldn't get to with Kuzmenko either. He's just too soft and I don't think Tocchet has much patience for him right now so he's just hoping he finds his game but it's not working. I'm hoping he's just injured and will feel heal up soon and step up.

How much heat? As much as a 12m so-called superstar who has scored 6 times in the past 40 games, ONCE in the playoffs. For Pettersson ball lickers, no heat. For fans who have eyesight, 12 million dollars worth of heat.

Absolutely hate to say this but Pettersson's game has not been same since around time he signed long term contract. Am hoping he can turn things around and put this coincidence out of mind.

Petterson would be in the press box for the next game.

He's getting push around, off the puck like a 12 year old kid. He stops up before any engagement in corners, and always starts from a standstill. He needs to be moving constantly as this, especially playoff hockey is much higher pace. Look no further than Garland's play. Speed, always moving. Even Miller has moments rushing in on the left side. And of Course McDavid, always in motion, either getting out of the crowd, into a scoring position, or creating open ice for others to score. You see it constantly where McDavid draws a crowd, only to pass to Draisaitl. Peterson doesn't always have to score goals. He seems to forget there's 4 other guys out there with him!

Bruce nailed it! Exactly

Go Pettersson go, you've got this.

To be fair to Pettersson, you can put Mikheyev on a line with McDavid and Draisatl setting him up and he would still shoot straight at the Goalie's crest

If I was Tocchet I’d sit him. Like Kelly Hrudey said last night Pettersson is a liability with his play.

When you get paid like that, people expect more from you. Problem is that Petey is not hustling at all. Maybe he's injured, but he is not putting forth any effort. Guy gives up on any battle for the puck.

Petterson is basically a Sedin without the other twin as a linemate

The Canucks were dumb as fuck to fire Boudreau the way they did. I wish they could bring him in a some kind of Special Advisor to help Pettersson get his shit together

I've never been mad or upset with Petey as a player. This is what Vancouver media does to a player. Like all the contract talks and pushing they did during the season. Media dont GAF though as long as they get their headlines.

Still looks MORE ENGAGED THAN ‘Mitchy’, oh yeah, Vancouver is STILL IN THE PLAYOFFS !!!

petterson doesnt care.. he got paid

I agree

Great ending

Bruce is right on. Pettersson needs a player that can hold on to the puck and make a play. Kuzmenko was a perfect fit but the coach didn't like him. Kuz was the only player that always was happy. Pettersson seems depressed and that is bad for the Canucks.

I was at the game last night and was watching him in warmups. He could barely shoot. It's either his shoulder or his wrist that's in bad shape.

Pettersson or someone should drop gloves with Nurse. These Canucks have hustle and seem to work even harder when they are down. Only liability has been Cole.

All of it !!!

Peterson and Marner are a lot alike.

The draft of Pettersson and his success started what the Canucks are today. When the sedins left 2019. Petey is what lit the flame again in Vancouver. Everyone came to Canucks with excitement because of Petey. He’s the man

He makes Mitch Marner look like a Playoff Monster.

I still see the odd comment, beaking about goaltending 🤦🏻‍♂️. Peterson playing like he wants out

petey needs to start skating harder and actually move the puck from time to time.

A lot. He has pulled disappearing acts like this before. His rookie year he went off a cliff after the allstar break. 3rd year he came out slow and then was injured. Next he came out slow after signing a contract and pulled it together after the allstar break. This year, again was good and fell off a cliff after the break. It seems he can only get it together for half a season, or play only OK (ppg) for a whole season. He needs a hardcore and proven training routine with other peers in the offseason. And to work on his skating. His core strength is a joke and gets pushed too easy. He barely even bends his knees. He works hard, but not on what he needs to.

Pettersson is a 40 million player. Hyman got 38 million, and now he's proven himself even more. Does the latter make any sense for a bigger extension?

A pylon would be more effective than whatever it is that EP is doing.. Players would skate _around_ the pylon, they just crash into EP and sort of ignore him when he's on the ice. If the Canucks lose this series, his play (or rather, lack thereof) will be a huge focal point in discussions going forward and he'll be lumped in with the likes of PLD, Darnell Nurse, etc. for worst contract in the league.

hes been invisible since becoming the 5th highest paid player

Other young stars in the past have had slow starts to their playoffs careers. The Canucks have played a 'dump in' style and have almost completely lost their puck control game in these playoff. Even Hughes has suffered from the way they are now playing; good defence, dump ins, forechecking, and waiting for bounces to win low scoring games. The Canuck look nervous, tentative, reactive, and sloppy and are eeking out wins with ugly but determined hockey.

Petey deserves every dime of the 11.7 million but please help the Nucks get to the next round !

Revive the Lotto Line and keep them together rest of series. This will tell a lot about Elias Pettersson.

BruceThereItIs

Some people just aren’t made for the NHL playoffs. They don’t have that killer in them or the resiliency for the rough going that comes with it.

He's playing lost. I thought it was a lingering injury, but it's Tocchet's style of play. Petey doesn't fit, he can't be defensively responsible and productive at the same time. He's also weak. Not sure I've seen more than 15 shifts all season that he hasn't fallen down from the slightest contact. he's gone 3 steps backwards. Maybe he can reset after this season, but right now, putting in a minor leaguer in his place would probably help us more than hurt us.

The man has no confidence right now and just needs one good game to get the ball rolling. Yeah he had one goal but some of the key winning goals he was a part of. We have an "underdog" team thats been been driven and has pulled off some amazing stuff to be where we are right now in the playoffs. Having a player of Petterssons talent not playing up to his potential and still having our team win games is remarkable. Imagine whats going to happen when he finds his stride.

Well Pettey needs to ignite the power play. They're both not doing well..

At 19, he was bambi on skates. At 25, he's still bambi on skates. He hasn't put the work in and can't survive when the action really heats up. His professionalism deserves to be questioned ... loudly.

$11 million worth

The problem with Petty is that he's too small. At the beginning of the season, he was probably 20 Lbs heavier than now. He's probably got the body type that burns through fuel quickly, and he should up his calorie intake significantly. At the beginning of the season, he was harder on pucks, wasn't flopping after anyone touched him, and was able to make hits. Someone feed this guy some cheeseburgers. I don't know what his calorie intake is now, but it for sure needs to be increased In the playoffs, you have to be able to hold on to pucks, and with his current frame, he's not strong enough. I'd probably start with 6 eggs and steak for breakfast, pasta with 2 chicken breasts 2-3 hours before a game, and AG1 with whey or an equivalent green drink twice a day for maintenance. Bare minimum 8000 calories a day for a guy with his metabolism.

He lacks any emotion on ice. Get happy then mad and learn to control it.

Who?

Well A.) His sticks are total JUNK! Break every second one-T (literally garbage sticks). You don't see Miller or Boeser's sticks breaking constantly. B.) He deserves 11 mil worth of heat per year and that is a TON of heat! Personally he would of never got that contract out of me until he earned it in the playoffs. PROVE your worth it. 1 Goal in what ... 21 games now? The rest of his points are secondary assists ... that's 4th liner kinda of performance. C.) Petey's biggest issue and why he can't perform recently is EFFORT and BALANCE. He just can't battle well and his skating is weak (no strong strides anymore and no balance). He gets pushed off the puck constantly, rarely wins any board battles. The only thing he's got going for him at the moment is defensive positioning. If he loses that, I'd just replace him... matter a fact, I'd replace him now, waste of roster spot big time. PUT Podkolzyn in the lineup. At least his effort level is really high and he'll check the crap out of the oilers Dmen. Petey needs to get back to rookie Petey and if you haven't seen rookie Petey folks, look it up on youtube. That kid deserved 11 mil.

We'll trade you Campbell for him salary retained. Oilers in 7 baby

He will single handedly cost the canucks and entire series and if he is the franchise player i dont see how they will have any playoffs success as a team.

Keep Lindholm and trade Petey.

Steady linemates would flipping help lay off Petey 🤠🍻🚬😸

hes got an issue either its mental or physical but no one goes to being a game breaker to nothing. I think hes injured. He cant say it because its playoffs. We need the other guys with him to help him instead of hurting him.MIkaev needs to get booted out of the arena. Hes terrible

Petterson on ice looks like the kid lost in a mall

Allvin has to go and his minions too --in the entire history of the franchise EP40 contract is the worst and he is not tradeable unless you retain 7 million per season and then there's Mikheyev's contract so starting next season 16 million plus OEL money wasted and more bad contracts will be negotiated in the off-season to completely scuttle this team--I feel sorry for the honorable men-Miller Hughes Boeser Garland Joshua lindholm and Big Z

Same with pastranak on the bruins basically…

Sit him he has zero drive , bring up nikermakki

WHEN yes in. his 3 or 4 yr career has he shown he can win games by himself? BS !!! 11million? what a f'n joke---Boeser/Garland/any of the 3 goalies < The only ones that how UP ever time....Miller/Big Z/Lindholm/Hughes every game or 2 show up-----If the Canucks as a team showed up and played 60min or at least 55, not many or any teams that can beat them 4x

Suter - Miller - Boeser Joshua - Lindholm - Joshua Hoglander - Blueger - Bains Mik - Aman - Lafferty Sit Petey

Paying Peterson the amount he was paid is a big whoops , he is weak on the puck therefore unable to produce in the playoffs , trade him .

Patterson needs to be sent to the minors. Over paid way under performance.

He’s going to get hurt😢or sick and not play … and trade him next year

He sucks and isnt worth any where near 11.6 If I was a Canuck fan Id be so pissed that he makes more than Beoser, or Hughes. Geeeez Silovs should be making more than this over rated peice of _________

Play less video games petey

Peterson is too small for playoffs

Petterson-Luc Dubois

He spends more time falling around on his knees. Praying to God that nobody sees just how bad he actually is playing he thinks by getting his hundred points in the regular season. He's done his job just another over paid under performing superstar they never should've got a contract like he did I trade him

you media are aholes and im not even a canuck fan, leave him alone

As of day of gm5 media wants fans to chant for pedi before puck drop That just tells everyone pedi is mentally weak & needs a boost Hey pedi do it the old fasioned way suck it up like boeser work hard , goals will come and prove nay sayers like me wrong Needs support lol trade the weak twig, bring in some size & heart

Canucks are going to lose, everyone going point finger at petterson when Vancouver get knocked out out of playoffs

If i were the coach of the Canucks i would throw in the towel

Typical European, fold like a lawn chair in the playoffs.

Put him with Joshua and Garland he deserves to play with better players. He puts the Puck on Mickey's stick so often and mickey completely s**** the bed

they should play petterson between garland and joshua, lindholm will carry his new third line, the way petterson is supposed to carry his own line but isnt!

I wished they traded him for Brady.... 💯💯🙏🙏🙌🙌 stop drafting these fuukin softies that flop around and get pushed around like a liittle child... He looks lost out there and for some reason I always thought this guy can skate??? but having guys like Karlsson and Nils???? wtf linemates are those??? at least put Bains and Hogs back they wont produce shit with those guys... Its time to get rid of Petey... He doesnt have what it takes... whats going on with Demko??? Last news I have was on the score news saying " Demko out till game 5 of round 2.... ok Its Game 5 coming up????? WHATS GOING ON WITH DEMKO

All you so-called canucks fans giving petterson s***? Look how many opportunities he creates for his line mates and he gets none back. The coach needs to put him with better players so stop blaming Petterson Cause if you are you don't know hockey so shut it