Remember how excellent Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Pettersson was performing right around this time last season?
Kicking off the 2019 New Year, the Swedish sensation scored his first career hat trick on the road against the Ottawa Senators. He appeared to be an unstoppable threat for the Canucks with full intentions of reaching the 40-goal mark. He was above and beyond the Canucks’ best player.
Nobody saw it coming, but at the time, the young 20-year-old Pettersson was stopped dead in his tracks hitting a brick wall offensively — simply unable to keep pace with the grinding NHL schedule.