Hockey Nebula
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- Jan 10, 2019
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Every summer I forget.
Every summer I look forward to hockey starting in October. I listen to reports from training camp, get excited by how things are going, and can't wait for the regular season to start.
Compared to all the other sports, hockey is the fastest and the most competitive. It makes baseball, golf, tennis, and even football, boring in comparison.
So hockey finally starts in October, and I'm loving it. I follow the team through the regular season and follow the whole league. Then, the playoffs start, and I realize I've forgotten, again, how ultra-competitive and physical the playoffs are. Everything ramps up, except for the officiating, which lets more and more things go as the playoffs progress.
Think of Petterson, and how easily he gets rag-dolled in the regular season. I love the player, love watching him develop, and I think he'll do great things in Vancouver. But he's small and weak.
During the regular season, he got by and survived the physicality somehow, for the most part. But can you imagine him in the playoffs?
He would get utterly destroyed.
That's why I think it's probably good the Canucks missed the playoffs this year. Petterson needs more time to figure out how to deal with NHL physicality. He needs more time to put on some muscle and some weight. He'll never be a behemoth, but he's got a ways to go.
Because when the Canucks finally make the playoffs again, he's going to be a super-important player. If you think teams key on him in the regular season, wait until he's in a seven game series against another team. They will key on him physically and I have my doubts how he'll deal with it.
Every summer I look forward to hockey starting in October. I listen to reports from training camp, get excited by how things are going, and can't wait for the regular season to start.
Compared to all the other sports, hockey is the fastest and the most competitive. It makes baseball, golf, tennis, and even football, boring in comparison.
So hockey finally starts in October, and I'm loving it. I follow the team through the regular season and follow the whole league. Then, the playoffs start, and I realize I've forgotten, again, how ultra-competitive and physical the playoffs are. Everything ramps up, except for the officiating, which lets more and more things go as the playoffs progress.
Think of Petterson, and how easily he gets rag-dolled in the regular season. I love the player, love watching him develop, and I think he'll do great things in Vancouver. But he's small and weak.
During the regular season, he got by and survived the physicality somehow, for the most part. But can you imagine him in the playoffs?
He would get utterly destroyed.
That's why I think it's probably good the Canucks missed the playoffs this year. Petterson needs more time to figure out how to deal with NHL physicality. He needs more time to put on some muscle and some weight. He'll never be a behemoth, but he's got a ways to go.
Because when the Canucks finally make the playoffs again, he's going to be a super-important player. If you think teams key on him in the regular season, wait until he's in a seven game series against another team. They will key on him physically and I have my doubts how he'll deal with it.