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With a goal and an assist in the bortamötet with Columbus, he has now reached 32 points in his first season in the NHL.
Elias Pettersson tops in scoring for rookies by far and already has so early in his career made two fempoängsmatcher.
the Runner-up Colin White, Ottawa, stands at 19 points.
– One of my most lucky goal, but I got it, ” says 20-year-old humbly on the 2-2-goal against Columbus, to the nhl.com.
back in October named rookie of the month in the NHL.
Elias is calm and safe at all times and he would never stress himself, stresses Johan Thelin.
Thelin, who now is an assistant coach in Timrå IK, saw that many other talent in Elias Pettersson.
But it was not all that made it.
” I had him for two years in juniorlaget and he was incredibly serious about what he did on the ice. He was thin and small when he came from ungdomslaget and late in development. But usually we in the hockey see as positive, ” says Johan Thelin and continues:
Elias himself has been told that he is thin and weak from many experts. We here in Timrå had not difficult to see what a great talent he was compared to other players. So, there’s physics, he has had to work extra hard with himself and has taken the help of experts, ” he says.
a plan for the Elias Petersson during junior time.
” It’s not always good to move up players from the J18 to the J20 quickly. Elias had to wait until christmas before we lifted him up. He then made an instant success in the J20 and later on also in the A team, ” explains Johan Thelin.
When Pettersson left the Timrå IK and went to the Växjö Lakers continued success.
In his first season in the SHL, he won the scoring in both the regular season and the playoffs.
Hindsight, we know: It was the SM-gold, Three Crowns and a world CHAMPIONSHIP gold.
” There was some question how he would cope in Växjö. But Elias did it fantastically well, ” says Thelin.
ishockeys new storstjärna with icons such as Henrik Zetterberg and the twins Sedin, Henrik and Daniel.
” Just the technical similar I am happy with the Sedins. It looked well all that they would be good when they were younger, ” says Johan Thelin.
Success in the NHL, however, has surprised many.
But the 20-year-old has coped with the transition from the big rinkarna in the SHL to the smaller ones in the NHL, and a more physical game without problems.
now he done is absolutely amazing and there was probably no one who could have imagined that it would go this good for him already in the first year in the NHL, ” says Johan Thelin.
fond memories of Elias Pettersson.
Not least when he became Swedish champion with the Växjö Lakers and the live started crying when got to know that the Timrå IK moved up in the SHL.
the clip I have seen many times. It warms in the heart, ” says Thelin proud.
the Success story of Elias Pettersson began in Ånge.
He took his first ice skates in Kastbergshallen.
the youth coaches in Ånge IK when Elias Pettersson was between 8 and 14 years.
” I usually say this: the goals he does now, I’ve seen him do since he was eight years old. The difference is that he’s now doing them at the outermost världselitnivå, ” says Jens Östlund and laughing.
Ostlund, think that the shot is what Elias Pettersson developed the most.
Elijah has always been small and weak, and he has never had a really good skater until the later years. But Elias has always had a fantastic dragskott and he always put the of the cross, remember ungdomstränaren also remember the NHL player’s feel for hockey.
– It is Elijah’s passing ability that stands out. He always saw the situation before all the others and is still in place, ” says Jens Östlund.
the Swedish star is long and narrow and looks like a ”shrimp” is nothing negative.
” I think he has had the benefit of having been small. He must have your head up and be smarter than everyone else, ” says Jens Östlund.
Elias Pettersson has worked hard to reach the position he has today.
– There are many who have put as much time, but not come as far. Elias has managed his talent with hard training and developed it as he had been a little weaker, stresses Jens Östlund.
A-lagstränare in Timrå IK and worked hard to Elias Pettersson would stay in allsvenskan for another year before he went to the SHL.
” the Feeling I had then was that the best thing was that Elias would stay in Town one more season to improve the physics. Think I was wrong, ” says Forsberg and laughing.
He admits his feltänk…
” Oh, but his own feeling was completely real. He had to go to Växjö and continue to develop. I thought that he would stay for a year in the SHL before he took the step over to the NHL.
– once Again I was wrong. I can only take our hats off and congratulate him for a right choice, ” says Forsberg in the day.
” His hockey sense is absolutely incredible. There were a few times in Timrå you wondered: We had a strategy, but what happens now? He reached out and suddenly lay the puck into the goal. As soon as he has the puck he gets threatening.
– Where should it go? There is probably no one who knows. I thought that he would get tougher after a dozen or so rounds in the NHL. Monitoring is harder on him now. But it doesn’t matter. He has taken his game that he played in the allsvenskan to the SHL and on to the NHL. He trusts completely in his own sense, ” says Roger Forsberg and ends on the 20-year-old can become one of the biggest in Swedish hockey.
– Elias Pettersson is a fantastic hockey player.
