New York. Now maybe the Canucks players are right in thinking they are something…
They beat the Florida Cats away from home last night – and Elias Pettersson is back at the top of the points league.
– It feels good, we have a very good group here, says EP after the 5-3 win.
After a somewhat poor performance against the Flyers in Philadelphia earlier this week, Canucks coach Rick Tocchet questioned the players’ attitude.
“Who are we to think we are anything,” he asked rhetorically.
But since then, Vancouver has acted like a team that has the right to believe good things about itself.
Even though they were beaten by Tampa last Thursday, they have played much better – and last night they defeated the Florida Cats in Sunrise.
-It feels nice. “We have a very good group, good coaches, I like our ‘game plan’ and the work effort tonight was excellent,” says Elias Pettersson.
He himself was responsible for a new high-level performance, setting up a goal scored by great defender Quinn Hughes and scoring one himself after great preliminary work by his group-mates Andrey Kuzmenko and Ilya Mikheyev, who was finally able to make his first appearance of the season after a break. infection.
– It was really nice to have Mikheyev back, he creates very beautiful surfaces for me and Kuzmenko is always Kuzmenko, smiles the 24-year-old midfielder.
Who has a total of ten points in five games now shares first place in the league’s scoring charts with New Jersey’s Jack Hughes.
