TSN Hockey analyst Bruce Boudreau joins That’s Hockey to share how he would handle the struggling Elias Pettersson after coaching him for a little over a year in Vancouver, and if he believes the Canucks can survive the series against the Predators without Thatcher Demko.
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I've said for months I'd rather have Stone over Petterson any day of the week…and you should have seen the hundreds of TROLL comments calling me "delusional" …
I love it when REALITY sets in and puts these absolute dreamer idiot fans in their place , who wouldn't know a good hockey player if one crawled up their ASS
a guy like Stone has heart, drive, maturity, braun, and understands the physical and mental fortitude it takes to win a cup….Petterson will NEVER have that….worst contract Canucks have ever made PERIOD ….said it from day 1
Weird, I never heard Nathan MacKinnon or McDavid or Panarin or Kucherov needing "a kick in the butt" to get going.
Bench him
He is definitely not the best. He is a liability on the ice. His feet look heavy.
He does not want to be the best 😂 He has no drive in him right now lmao. Bench his lazy ass.
Was that goal not off side??? Or am I crazy
I recall one of Boudreau's first moves was to put Petey on the PK. That gave a chance for Petey to score short handed goals. It at least forced the team on the PP to change up their PP lines to take Pettersson into account.
Pettersson is not the kind of player who makes things happen. The Canucks need more players like Connor Garland, Dakota Joshua and JT Miller.
I had a feeling the Nucks are a regular season team..
Whats up with canucks tendies getting hurt in the last 4 playoff runs?
Demko, Markstrom, Miller, Schneider… just unreal bad luck for nucks goalies in the playoffs
team play without puck to set up offense scoring with puck?
Refer Pettersson a good psychologist. Screwed mind. That's all.
Not sure I agree with Bruce. Without Demko I don't think Vancouver can win this series.
Bruce, there he is!
Boudreau and Petey had a very close relationship. Remember, Boudreau was able to tap into Petey's ceiling and get him going again when Petey was going through a similar slump. But I don't think Rick Tochet who has been a fantastic coach by all means has been able to really resonate with Petey
Please make him less Scandinavian, and more rural Alberta farmboy.
That's the problem.