It seemed clear toward the end of the regular season and into the Stanley Cup Playoffs that Elias Pettersson was playing through some sort of injury. The Vancouver Canucks' franchise forward had 34 goals and 89 points during the regular season but his offence dried up in the playoffs.
As is typical of hockey players, Pettersson made no excuses as the playoffs went on; a lot of players are going through something once May comes around and they rarely admit to an injury in the media. That's both because no one likes a complainer and because no one wants to give their opponents something to target.
"I have been playing with a bad knee since January," said Pettersson. "It's been like a nagging injury, so the longer it went, the more pain I felt." After January, however, his production tailed off, particularly his goalscoring. He had just two goals in February, four in March, and one in April. According to Pettersson, it's not an injury that will require any sort of drastic intervention.Even if it wasn't the playoffs that Pettersson wanted, the experience lit a fire under the centre, who said he knows he can be better and, "I know what I need to work on.
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