Le changement est stupéfiant, un changement sur lequel Pettersson a été interrogé avant et mardi. Il a dit qu’il n’avait toujours pas de réponse. C’est incroyablement difficile, a-t-il reconnu.
« Ce n’est pas amusant, mais je ne peux que dicter et me concentrer sur mon avenir », a-t-il déclaré.
Cet avenir, cependant, est un peu flou au-delà d’une réponse passe-partout. Et rien qu’à partir de cet échange, j’ai eu l’impression qu’il y avait beaucoup de bouillonnement à l’intérieur.
Quel est cet avenir, ai-je demandé.
« Je veux tout faire pour aider l’équipe à gagner, être un bon coéquipier, jouer pour une équipe, jouer pour l’écusson », a-t-il répondu.
« Faites-moi confiance, j’essaie juste de trouver mon jeu à chaque match. Je n’ai pas été à mon meilleur depuis un certain temps. Croyez-moi, personne ne veut cela plus que moi. »
edit : article de Patrick Johnston
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I think a fresh start is best for both the player and team.
He needs and deserves a fresh start with a better franchise, but unf his contract, term, and NMC make him nigh-unmovable at his current production pace. Canucks shouldn’t pay to dump him and given our dearth of talent at centre if no one wants to take a chance on him, it’s better to keep him.
Sucks for everyone but it is what it is.
They pain me too
I do feel for the guy, but he cant be a Canuck going into next season. To much has happened and he needs somewhere that isnt here to actually turn it around. Hopefully we can get something for him so we dont feel totally shafted
Honestly, if he’s okay with the rebuild, he should stick with the team and we can build around him. No one will want his contract, we’ll have to retain… If he sticks around he has 3-4 years of low pressure to find his game again. I say keep him
aka « keep repeating the the same talk so i can get bought out »
damn im so negative…
His trust me is as trustworthy as a politicians
this is just fucking sad, as a fan i’m finding it difficult to watch the players go through this stuff
He needs to go. No hard feelings but let’s cut this cancer out if we still can.
Man whatever happened at that all star game really messed with this franchise. I swear to god there was an exchange between him and Miller right when it was Petey’s turn in the hardest shot comp. It looked like it was some friendly competitive banter from Miller. But the reaction on petey’s face seemed like he didn’t receive it that way. I wish I could find the clip but can’t track it down anywhere.
I have no idea what to think any more. Clearly *something* happened that undermined him approximately two years ago. It probably started with an injury but seems to have gone way beyond that.
His record as a young player didn’t just demonstrate skill … But also competitiveness and determination. This wasn’t just the eye test but also his performance in the SEL playoffs for Vaxjo and the COVID playoffs for Vancouver. He competed hard when it mattered most.
His skating was always a tad unstable but beyond being knocked down a bit too much the rest of his game looked just ready to launch. He earned that big contract with his shot, his vision, his craftiness, his determination, his awkward but weirdly effective reverse hits … Etc.
Then nothing. He just dropped off the map. Too many video games? Distracted by off ice issues? Nagging injury? Lost interest? Suddenly lazy?
I just don’t know. But although I think I might still be a Petey fan. I think he needs a new environment.
Drance for GM
If Petey keeps regressing at the rate he currently is, he’s on a path toward a buyout and potentially packing his bags back to the SHL in a couple of years. At this point, the ship has sailed in Vancouver, and a change of scenery would be mutually beneficial for everyone involved.
On the ice, it doesn’t look like his heart is in it anymore. He is clearly mentally and physically broken down. He has lost trust in the medical staff, the coaches, management, and even some former teammates, and that tension goes both ways. That’s not the player I want leading the next wave of prospects coming up.
Maybe he just doesn’t have that *X-factor*
No the End is Near.
Got the bag and bounced
I just think he’s a stubborn, meek fellow… Sometimes that combination can result in a likeable guy that just can’t get it done and it becomes very frustrating
I think so. Unless Vancouver is willing to retain salary, which they’ve said they aren’t willing to do good luck trading that contract. I think it would be best for all involved for Pettersson to go somewhere else. The relationship between the player and the organization isn’t great. The media and Pettersson don’t have a great relationship. The relationship between the fanbase and Pettersson isn’t exactly peachy either. Unless he gets back to at least a 70 to 80 point player again, he’s probably stuck here for the time being.
I wont watch the team until hes gone! I get physically sick when i look at him!
No, it’s not.
The real reason my soda cost 17 dollars. Foh
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This is so sad.
As I said in the GDT the other day, I’m not mad at Petey anymore, I just feel awful for him.
It’s like watching your old terminally ill arthritic pet walk around while replaying all your memories of the good times you had with them in your head.
Here’s the thing,
You absolutely know that coaches and management have told him to shoot more and find his offensive game… he won’t do it.
He started to get hit heavier and heavier as teams focused him… so he quit.
All his coaches have said he doesn’t take criticism well. Then management tasks Miller and other leaders to « toughen Petey up. » I think he’s quit the team.
Rumours arr that Miller and Hughes were pissed off with his work ethic… he quit even more
His talent made him a target. His mopey, sullen, standoffish nature made him hard to support.
… at the end of the day nobody can make Petey play better but Petey himself, and he’s mentally quit… so it’s never gonna happen.
Its a mental issue not a physical one. He lost his confidence
Honestly after reading this I have a few guesses but with how this team is handling things the last few years. Questions about the competency of the doctors managers and so on maybe this is a situation where Vancouver as a club has failed to help him out with injuries or whatever it may be. They sure drop the ball in a lot of other aspects so how can we be so certain that’s not it. I hope he does get traded and maybe with a more professional club he can get the coaching he needs and help to be back to where he was before I can’t see Vancouver helping his situation at this point.
This club is fundamentally flawed Petterson Isent the only one who couldn’t get things done in Vancouver or is struggling there we have a whole team who clearly doesn’t wanna be here now we lost Hughes and Toch god knows who else has turned down coming here I strongly believe the ownership is definitely to blame here at this point. This runs so much deeper than getting a draft and making some trades.
He looks like someone who has a head injury at times. Looks like someone who has been concussed and not recovered.
Player puts in no work in the off season, goes thru the motions in practises, wonders why the game has passed him by.
Good bye, good riddance. He’s just a very expensive dead weight on the Canucks with a long-term outlook of more of the same.
Dont care what’s going on in his life. Plenty of us have personal shit going on in our lives, yet we put on our worboots, tie our ties, or don medical scrubs and go to work and give it our best.
At $11 million a year he owes it to put in some effort and stop being a pouty little bitch.
Oh no 11.6 million and I knew I couldn’t kept my half ass promise to my teammates
My 1st pick in pool I’m in.
Still holding on to him.
I believe in him
Simply put. No his future is not here.
Been weird actually who would have thought such a player decline and dragging others down with him
this is fucking hockey….toughen up
I too try to find my game every game, but I get paid $25 an hr to look at spreadsheets.