Brock Boeser and Elias Pettersson have both struggled to score lately.
The numbers tell us that when rookie Elias Pettersson is on the ice, the Vancouver Canucks are still getting plenty of shots off in the right direction.
And yet he’s also in a scoring funk. Boeser is goalless in six games, also with just three assists in that span. His last two goals came on a fluttering misfire that San Jose goalie Morgan Jones mishandled and a gimme tap-in on an Adam Gaudette setup. Every player goes through physical challenges in the season and most of the time players don’t bring it up, not wanting to be seen as using slumps as an excuse.
“I thought about the game, but you’ve got to have short memories, learn your lesson but forget about the game.” He said a couple weeks ago that while the schedule may be gruelling physically at times, he actually prefers the high volume of games compared to the schedule in Sweden, where most games happen on the weekend, with weekdays usually devoted to practices.
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