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Elias Pettersson has had a great start to the season.
Now the Swede tops the scoring league in the NHL.
But his Vancouver Canucks still suffered a defeat.
Elias Pettersson, 24, has had a really good start to the season with his club Vancouver Canucks. In the first game of the season, the Swede scored a goal and three assists in the Canucks’ 8-1 rout of the Edmonton Oilers.
Pettersson’s scoring success
Vancouver has started the season with two wins and two losses in the NHL. The wins have come against the Oilers and the losses against the Philidelphia Flyers and Tampa Bay Lightning. The Canucks are now fourth in the Atlantic Division of the Western Conference.
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It was during Thursday night that Vancouver suffered defeat against Tampa, in the match that ended 4-3 to the home team.
– I think we played much better than in the last game. We were pretty good until the second period when we conceded several goals. It’s such dips that you can’t, small details that we have to clean up, says Canucks forward Brock Boeser after the game.
Like the Sedin brothers
The loss came despite Elias Pettersson adding to his scoring tally with his two assists. The 24-year-old now tops the NHL’s scoring record with 8 points scored (1+7). He is tied for first place with the Ottawa Senators Alex DeBrincat.
Tampa Bay’s Swedish defender Victor Hedman left the ice scoreless.
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Pettersson’s seven assists in the first four games is a big goalpost. He is now together with Daniel Sedin2014/2015, and Henrik Sedin2013/2014 the only Vancouver players in the last 35(!) seasons to record six or more assists in their first four games of the season.
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