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Elias Pettersson
Vancouver Canucks Center
Ten game-winners, and twelve penalty minutes in all 82 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | VAN | 71 | 28 | 38 | 66 | +3 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 144 | 19.4 | 18:14 |
| 2019-20 | VAN | 68 | 27 | 39 | 66 | +16 | 18 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 162 | 16.7 | 18:32 |
| 2020-21 | VAN | 26 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 63 | 15.9 | 18:34 |
| 2021-22 | VAN | 80 | 32 | 36 | 68 | +1 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 192 | 16.7 | 18:36 |
| 2022-23 | VAN | 80 | 39 | 63 | 102 | +16 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 257 | 15.2 | 20:33 |
| 2023-24 | VAN | 82 | 34 | 55 | 89 | +20 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 10 | 207 | 16.4 | 19:39 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 407 | 170 | 242 | 412 | +56 | 74 | 51 | 7 | 32 | 1025 | 16.6 | 19:07 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
82 games, 34 goals and 55 assists for 89 points, 13 on the power play, 12 penalty minutes, 19:39 a night and plus-20, with 10 game-winners. He took 53.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,119 minutes, the 78th percentile, and his ice went 67-47 against an expectation of 48.70-42.49.
Eighteen goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and five more conceded than they called for. Ten game-winning goals is the most on the club and 89 points is the second-highest total of his career.
The Finesse Game
297 attempts at a median of 26 feet with 38 per cent of them from inside twenty and 20 per cent from beyond forty, 206 of those on goal, converted at 16.4 per cent against a career 16.59 across 1,025 shots.
170 career goals and 242 assists in 407 games. A career 16.59 per cent across a thousand shots is a shot that does not miss, and he takes it from anywhere between the dots; 32 career game-winners in 407 games is what a player with that release does with the last five minutes.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 176 and took 12 penalty minutes in all 82 games.
Seventy-four career penalty minutes in 407 games. He is tall and very light and plays entirely away from contact; twelve minutes across a full season at nearly twenty a night is the cleanest line of any top-line centre in this chapter.
The Intangibles
Fifth overall in 2017 by Vancouver, six seasons, one organisation, and 412 points in 407 games.
A career plus-56 and 7 shorthanded goals in 407 games. He is 25, he has more points than games in his career, and he has scored 66 or more in five of his six seasons.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,119 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.4%
- 79th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.7%
- 77th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 67 for, 47 against. Expected: 48.7 and 42.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 19 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 83 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 1119 minutes at five-on-five
- Brock Boeser24%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2023-24
- The club
- VAN took 52.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.4% — 0.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 1,119 minutes at five-on-five — 75th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quinn Hughes | 54.4% | 52.5% | 55.3% |
| Filip Hronek | 49.5% | 56.8% | 52.3% |
| Ilya Mikheyev | 54.2% | 52.9% | 54.2% |
54.4% together, 52.5% for him apart and 55.3% for Hughes apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
297 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 33 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 38% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.