Elias Pettersson Sets Canucks Record for Most Points in a Rookie Season
440Congrats Elias! The #Canucks rookie superstar passes Pavel Bure and Ivan Hlinka for the most points recorded by a rookie in franchise history with 61 points.
Here are some more stats from Pettersson's Rookie Season as of March 17th, 2019:
Pettersson not only leads his team but all rookies in goals (27), points (60), assists (33), power-play goals (9), power-play points (17), game-winning goals (7), and points per game (0.98).
Pettersson's 27th goal on Mar. 15 vs NJD moved him into fifth for most goals scored by a Swedish rookie in NHL history.
With his 14th multi-point game this season on Feb. 25 at ANA, Elias Pettersson passed Thomas Gradin to become 4th all-time in Canucks rookies multi-point games (Pavel Bure leads the way with 18).
Elias Pettersson joins an elite list of 10 players who have scored at least 25 goals in their first 44 games played, aged 20 or younger (Ovechkin, Martin, Murdoch, Bossy, Lindros, Robitaille, Yzerman, Gretzky, Hawerchuk, Boeser).
Pettersson was named to Team Pacific Division for the 2019 NHL All-Star Game. He became the youngest Canucks player and just the third Canucks rookie (Tallon, Boeser) named to the honour. He participated in the Fastest Skater and Puck Control Relay.
With his seventh GWG Jan. 2 at OTT, Pettersson established a new Canucks single-season record for most GWG scored by a rookie.
With a hat trick on Jan. 2 at OTT, Pettersson became just the fourth active player to accumulate 40 or more career points within his first 40 NHL games. He also became the first rookie in Canucks franchise history to score a hat trick that included an OTG. He is the eighth Canucks rookie to net a hat trick.
Pettersson, who led all rookies with seven goals and 10 points in eight games (7-3-10) in October, was named the NHL’s Rookie of the Month for October. He was named the NHL's second star of the week ending November 4th (sharing the League lead with four goals and ranked third overall with seven points in three games) and was named first star of the week ending December 9th (after leading the NHL with eight points (2-6-8) in three games).
With five points (1-4-5) on Dec. 9 at STL, Pettersson became the sixth rookie since 1967-68 to record multiple outings with at least five points in a single season. He also registered five points (2-3-5) on Nov. 2 vs COL.
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