‘No, they have three’: Fans try to wrap heads around Canucks adding another Pettersson
In a whirlwind couple of hours for the Vancouver Canucks, the team went from shipping star centre J.T. Miller to the New York Rangers to losing 5-3 to the Dallas Stars to completing the NHL trifecta of Petterssons.
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In a whirlwind couple of hours for the Vancouver Canucks, the team went from shipping star centre J.T. Miller to the New York Rangers to losing 5-3 to the Dallas Stars to completing the NHL trifecta of Petterssons.
While the Miller move had been weeks, if not months, in the making, and the loss to Dallas could happen on any day of the NHL calendar, Vancouver swinging a deal with the Pittsburgh Penguins for defenceman Marcus Pettersson and forward Drew O’Connor ended up as the ultimate capper to the day of surprises.
Pettersson, of course — stay with us now — joins forward Elias Pettersson and rookie defenceman Elias Pettersson on the Canucks roster. In NHL history, there have been four players with the last name of Pettersson to appear in a game at the sport’s highest level — the three newly minted teammates and Jörgen Pettersson, who played with the St. Louis Blues, Hartford Whalers and Washington Capitals between 1980 and 1986.
With all that said, employing three at the same time is clearly an accomplishment in itself for Vancouver’s front office.
Ultimately, the Canucks’ late-January, bordering on early-February, roster reconstruction saw them trade away seven players, re-route a first-round pick and acquire four players to try and bolster their squad for a playoff push with the locker-room drama hopefully behind them.
As the busy day came to an end for the Canucks, hockey fans took to social media to weigh in on the moves and crack a joke or two about the hoarding of Petterssons in Vancouver. Here are some of the best reactions:
