Marcus Pettersson & Head Coach Adam Foote Pre-Game Media | Canucks at Penguins (Oct 21, 2025)

Marcus Pettersson & Head Coach Adam Foote Pre-Game Media | Canucks at Penguins (Oct 21, 2025)

Let’s just start with you guys are coming off those three wins and now we’re going to see a couple adjustments uh when it comes to the lineup. How do you hope the team does adjust to those changes? I think good. I mean uh we got to have that next man up mentality. I think um guys coming in um are hungry and um so yeah, like injuries happen throughout the season and uh it’s a test for us and um yeah, guys got to step up. On the flip side for you, you’re making your return to Pittsburgh. What does that just feel like? What is going through your head? Yeah, a lot of fun. you know, um spent um six or seven years, something like that here and um you know, my kid was born here, so a lot of memories from here and um know a lot of guys still. So, um yeah, special feel. There’s still a feeling of almost being at home when you went to Vancouver because of the people you knew there and that kind of thing. It seems like it would be a really comfortable thing for you. Yeah, very comfortable. You know, like um from front office to to you know, Trinko was there, strength guy and a couple of players. So, um it’s it always helps when you when you know somebody some guys on the team and um so yeah, familiarity there for sure. Um here too like coming back here. I don’t think I’ve played in this um this away locker room. So that’ll be a special feeling. Marcus, that’s I’ve always associated the Canucks with Sweden just because of the great players you’ve had over the years. Is it is it comfortable for Swedes in in Vancouver, Patrick Alvine being the GM and all the great players that played there and everything? Yeah. Yeah, it’s an easy easy transition honestly like um the Sadines are still very much active with the team and um you talk to them a lot and and like you said Patrick’s there. He’s a Swedish guy. So um you can tell the history u of Swedish players there and um honestly like the the city and everything uh kind of reminds you of home too like very good people and um and stuff like that. Not as much snow as we got back home, but um you know, so it’s uh it was an easy easy adjustment and a lot of guys on the team helped me too to to get adjusted. My family, too. Right now, Myers, just coming off that game in Washington, obviously, we’re going to see some changes to the lineup today, but I was talking to Marcus Person. He just said it’s that next man up mentality. What do you want to see from those guys? Yeah, you have to be. They they’ve been in the system. Uh had them in camp. They both had really good camps. So, uh, you know, they we went over reviewed some things today and, uh, they’ll they’ll be they’ll be good. How much does it help the three guys from AHL that they get to play together in the NHL? I’m talking about the sorry, the forward line, Sassin, Carlson, and Baines. Yeah, it seems like it’s helped them. Uh, they know where each other are. They they have some rhythm together. It’s clear. You can see that. And I think it helps them play fast. So, it’s uh we’ll we’ll keep that line together as we see it. I mean, they’re still in games where there’s adjustments depending on penalty kills and power plays, things like that, but um yeah, it probably is they’re familiar with each other. That was um or an organizational decision like to try to transport that line to the NHL level cuz they I think they were together a lot in the preseason too, right? Like in Well, I don’t know if it was an organizational, you know, I I didn’t look at it that way. We we well it wasn’t a plan to play them in the miners, play them in pro. Okay. Um I know that they had success and you know we I just like their line in in preseason and you know when we have injuries and things like that they come up and they showed you know they had two of the first four five on five goals uh the first couple games. So uh why split them at that moment? Right. You’re coming off that game in Washington despite the challenges that you guys did face. What did you like from that game that you’re hoping to see in this one as well? We just played fast. We played our game. I mean, we didn’t react to them trying to get off get us off our game. So, again, we were in control for the most part of our emotions, which I liked. And, you know, losing a couple guys mid game, center position, um you’re and they’re going to turn up the heat. You’re going to see some, you know, offensive the offensive zone time with, you know, guys not used to playing down low that long, which is that’s normal.

Marcus Pettersson & Head Coach Adam Foote speak with the media ahead of tonight’s matchup in Pittsburgh.

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