{"id":660665,"date":"2026-09-12T08:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T08:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/660665\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T08:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T08:21:14","slug":"boeser-pettersson-in-way-better-headspace-heading-into","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/660665\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeser: Pettersson in &#8216;way better&#8217; headspace heading into"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver Canucks veteran Brock Boeser is optimistic longtime teammate Elias Pettersson will enter the 2026-27 campaign with a clear mind after years of off-ice drama surrounded the former star forward. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seems like he&#8217;s in a great headspace,&#8221; Boeser said, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/a-fresh-start-boeser-sees-an-inspired-pettersson-ahead-of-new-look-canucks-camp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Canadian Press<\/a>. &#8220;Way better than the last few years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pettersson and former Canuck J.T. Miller were involved in a public feud that derailed Vancouver&#8217;s 2024-25 season and culminated in the latter being dealt to the New York Rangers. Pettersson&#8217;s also faced intense scrutiny for a significant drop in production, and has been persistently mentioned in trade rumors. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s obviously been a rough couple of years,&#8221; Boeser said.<\/p>\n<p>With a new front office and head coach in place, Boeser believes Pettersson is in a strong position to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just a fresh start,&#8221; Boeser said. &#8220;He really needs to take advantage of it &#8230; try and put everything aside and just focus on what he can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pettersson signed an eight-year extension with a $11.6-million cap hit in 2024. Since the deal came into effect, he&#8217;s registered 96 points in 138 games and is a minus-40. He produced 102 and 89 points in 2022-23 and 2023-24, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Canucks were the worst team in the NHL last season with a 25-49-8 record. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks veteran Brock Boeser is optimistic longtime teammate Elias Pettersson will enter the 2026-27 campaign with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,5,4,893,27,5313],"class_list":["post-660665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver-canucks","tag-canucks","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouvercanucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117257101901454428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}