NHL Draft 2022: Canucks take on second Elias Pettersson
The Vancouver Canucks used a third-round draft decide to select up a second participant named Elias Pettersson.
The Swedish defenceman was quantity 80 within the 2022 NHL draft.
Coincidentally, the 18-year-old has the identical title because the staff’s star centre who was picked up within the 2017 draft.
The elder Pettersson was a first-round decide for the staff.
Getting in on the joke, he posted on social media, “We’d like one other nickname.”
One particular person steered “Repeaty,” a play on the 23-year-old’s nickname, “Petey.”
The staff posted pictures of the Petterssons side-by-side, with their blond hair in comparable centre elements, writing, “similar similar however totally different.”
The Canucks picked up six new players on this yr’s draft. Along with the second Pettersson, the staff picked proper wing Jonathan Lekkerimäki, centre Daimon Gardner, goaltender Ty Younger, defenceman Jackson Dorrington and defenceman Kirill Kudryavtsev.
