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Surprising New Data Proves Everyone Was Wrong About Elias Pettersson's 2024-25 Season
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Some surprising new data released over the weekend shows how consistent Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Pettersson has been in recent years.
With a difficult 2024-25 campaign in the rearview mirror, Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Pettersson is looking forward to the upcoming season and said recently that he's "out for revenge."
"I haven't thought about it, but for myself it's revenge. I'm not happy with last season." Pettersson said.
He added, "I'm trying to lead by example. But I know that I can become a better leader, in that aspect. I'm trying my best, but also trying to get better."
He added, "I'm trying to lead by example. But I know that I can become a better leader, in that aspect. I'm trying my best, but also trying to get better."
While he didn't play the greatest for the majority of last season and finished the year with a pretty poor stat line, the Swedish forward has been pretty consistent in one area of his game not just during the 2024-25 campaign, but ever since entering the NHL in 2018.
Surprising new data shows how consistent Elias Pettersson has been in the NHL
JFresh, who looks at the analytical side of hockey, shared a post on X on Sunday afternoon regarding 5-on-5 scoring chances over the last nine seasons.
Since entering the National Hockey League during the 2018-19 season, Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Pettersson has been more consistent than the majority of players when it comes to 5-on-5 scoring chances, 5-on-5 assist chances and 5-on-5 chance contributions.
"Considering all the discourse that surrounds him, it's interesting to me that Elias Pettersson's 5v5 chance numbers are more consistent than basically anybody in the league in the past seven seasons." JFresh said.
The Sundsvall, Sweden native finished the year with 45 points in 64 games, which isn't great, especially considering his $11.6 million annual salary, but he's committed to being a better player this coming year and opened up about last season's struggles back in July.
"Maybe it was that early in the season I had the wrong attitude that yes, 'now I've signed a big contract and now I have to do more, instead of just being myself'.
And when the points didn't come, I tended to start thinking and overthinking everything instead of just doing what I usually do." Pettersson said.
He added, "My game (last season) was obviously not at the level it was in the two seasons before that... I had a knee injury last summer and that hindered a lot of my training then; it was hard to really train 100 percent. Now I'm just trying to look forward."
And when the points didn't come, I tended to start thinking and overthinking everything instead of just doing what I usually do." Pettersson said.
He added, "My game (last season) was obviously not at the level it was in the two seasons before that... I had a knee injury last summer and that hindered a lot of my training then; it was hard to really train 100 percent. Now I'm just trying to look forward."
Hopefully now that Pettersson's back to 100 percent health and has been able to train fully, he'll be able to get off to a strong start to the 2025-26 season and be an offensive leader for the Canucks once again.
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