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‘A confident Petey’: Canucks’ Boeser and Foote on Pettersson’s multi-goal game
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Jacob Fraser
Mar 18, 2026, 16:12 EDT
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Elias Pettersson scored two goals last night in the Vancouver Canucks win over the defending two-time Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers. The second was his 200th career goal, becoming just the 10th player in the franchise’s history to reach the milestone.
Pettersson’s longtime teammate, Brock Boeser, was in on both Pettersson goals, including the primary assist on his 200th. He shared post-game that he wants to see Pettersson shoot more and is seeing a more confident version of him.
“A confident Petey,” Boeser said. “We need him to do that. We need him to let that bomb go. Even in the third period, even if it hurts a guy, that’s fine. We can create stuff off that. I love to see it and he’s gotta keep on with it.”
Canucks head coach Adam Foote had some nice things to say post-game on Pettersson’s performance, where he broke a 20-game goalless drought.
“He’s been working at it. I mean, sometimes you get caught in a little bit of a slump or a rut and you can tell his energy and the next couple of shifts after he got that goal, how he was, you just see it, you’d see it, it was a little bit more pace and then he had a, like he wanted to shoot. And, you know, it was nice, it was nice to see.”
Foote was later asked about what he’s seen from Pettersson leading up to this performance and praised the work EP40 has been putting in for the past “four to six weeks”. 
“I don’t know where it happened or how it happened, but he just recognized, I don’t think it’s about necessarily his skill set or things like that. I think he’s just working on his work, like his work ethic, he comes out early, he goes on the bike after games, he’s changed his whole mindset.”
This was Pettersson’s first multi-goal performance since the last time the Canucks and Panthers met in Florida on November 17, 2025. These are his only two multi-goal games this season. 
The lack of scoring from the team’s highest-paid player certainly has become a concern amongst Canucks fans throughout the market. Although the confidence Pettersson played with against the Panthers has come as a breath of fresh air for fans and the team.
The Swede will look to build off that performance and gain some momentum to start next season strong. This all begins tomorrow, when the Canucks welcome the tough opponent, the Tampa Bay Lightning, to town.

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