Vancouver Canucks Forward Elias Pettersson Makes Surprise Return Ahead of the Summer 2025-26 Season
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Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Petterson has returned to the ice in preparation for the 2025-26 season, making an appearance at a skills camp for kids in Sweden.
Less than two months after the regular season concluded and he fully recovered from his injury, Pettersson was back on the ice at a Bauer Hockey Europe event in his home nation of Sweden, which was a great sight for Vancouver Canucks fans.
Vancouver Canucks’ Elias Pettersson back on the ice in Sweden
Recently, Elias Pettersson returned to the ice to host his annual skills camp in Sweden and video has circulated of the Canucks forward participating in a scrimmage with the kids who attended.
“‼️ PETEY SIGN OF LIFE ‼️
at his annual skills camp for kids!” @dailypetey said.
Whether it be a skills camp for kids or the Bauer Hockey Europe event earlier this summer, it’s great to see Elias Pettersson back on the ice and at full health, which is something that unfortunately wasn’t the case last summer.
During an interview with the Swedish NHL site, Pettersson says that a knee injury last summer hurt his ability to train for the 2024-25 season and ultimately resulted in his slow start to the year.”My game (last season) was obviously not at the level it was in the two seasons before that… I had a knee injury last summer and that hindered a lot of my training then; it was hard to really train 100 percent,” Pettersson said. “Now I’m just trying to look forward.”
He added, “Maybe early in the season I had the wrong mindset. I thought, ‘now I’ve signed a big contract so I have to do more’, instead of just being myself.”
Now that the 26-year-old is back to being 100 percent, he’s able to train without any restrictions, which will hopefully help him come into training camp ready to go and prove everyone wrong.
If Pettersson is able to return to his hold form and be better than a point-per-game player (potentially another 100+ point campaign), then it’ll go a long way in helping Vancouver’s chances of returning to the Stanley Cup Playoffs after missing out this year for the fourth time in the last five seasons.
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