Big Read: “Life isn’t how you want it all the time. And this for sure showed it. But good things happen if you put in the effort.” Canucks star Elias Pettersson learned to take nothing for granted in the fight to bring his friends back. (ByDavidSingh)
by Tino Sanandaji, that the family’s application for asylum was denied after multiple appeals and that they lacked legal permission to live in the country.
The brothers maintain that the efforts of the people of Ange had a direct influence in reversing the deportation. The story gained widespread attention, notes Pettersson. “It’s unbelievable that they care so much. I feel like they are my family,” Hayk says of the townsfolk’s relentless work. “Without them, it would never be possible.”
The brothers, travelling with another friend Robert Eriksson, all stayed in Pettersson’s condo, and the 21-year-old is proud to show off their setup. He pulls out his phone in the Rogers Arena suite and opens a video of him moving room-to-room, each one boasting someone fast asleep on an air mattress. It concludes in the living room, where Hayk is awake, headphones on, fully engrossed in a video game.Ange rallied around the Danielyans after the deportation.
If you chat with teammates in the Canucks locker room about Pettersson the person, what you hear is remarkably consistent: He’s a quiet guy, very mature, very humble, very respectful. What you also learn is that he cares a great deal about people. “He understands that there’s a bigger picture outside of hockey,” says Brock Boeser, Pettersson’s best friend on the team.while his father faced a recurrence of cancer. He says Pettersson checks in frequently to see how his friend is faring.
“You can tell when someone is genuinely sad or understanding how affected their family would have been,” Green adds. “I’ve seen players in the heat of games and after games who are sometimes indulged in their own [thoughts and] what they’ve got going on. [Pettersson wasn’t].”"I appreciate my time so much more with them now," Pettersson says of his friends. From left to right: Hayk, Valerik, Pettersson, Davit and Robert Eriksson.
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