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Center•#40MIXEDPPI 74Elias Pettersson is a 27-year-old center for the Vancouver Canucks. Selected 5th overall by VAN in the 2017 NHL Draft. Born in Sundsvall, SWE.
This season, the left-shooting forward has 4 goals and 12 assists for 16 points in 16 games. He averages 1.00 points per game on 20:07 of ice time.
2026-27 · Regular season
#25 NHL
2026-27 projection
Projected September 28, 2026 — 80% range on points. All 2026-27 player projections
80% range: 43–91 pts
MIXED — 48th percentile at C, 51% hit rate (74 GP, 2025-26)
2026-27 · Regular season
Full statistical breakdown for the 2026-27 regular season.
League percentile
Vs. all NHL skaters, 10+ games played. 99 = best, 1 = lowest.
2026-27 pace
Where Elias's current rate finishes the 2026-27 season.
End of season forecast, current pace
68
games remaining
Goals
21
Current: 4
Assists
63
Current: 12
Points
84
Current: 16
Strong production expected. Most likely outcome is 67-101 points, establishing this player as a top-line contributor.
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Art Ross
Most Points
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Rocket
Most Goals
0.0%
Playmaker
Most Assists
Projections based on current pace extrapolated to the full season with variance modeling.
5v5
What happened while Elias was on the ice at 5v5, and who he was sent out against. 2026-27.
5v5 only (situationCode 1551), unblocked attempts, shift-chart attribution. 16 games, 269 unblocked attempts on the ice.
Quality of competition
62.9 vs 57.3 lg
92th percentile
Quality of teammates
49.3 vs 56.8 lg
28th percentile
Deployment
buried
by competition faced
Competition and teammate quality are the average on-ice strength of the players he shared the ice with at 5v5, on the same 0–100 scale as the league averages beside them.
Shot Selection
Where Elias takes his shots, and how each zone converts.
Unblocked attempts
39
Goals vs expected
4 vs 2.7 xG
5v5 scoring-chance share
45%
With-or-without-you
Who Elias plays with at 5v5, and how the shot-quality share moves when they are apart — a with-or-without-you read.
| Teammate | Together | xGF% with | xGF% apart | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jake DeBruskL | 134 min | 46.2 | — | — |
5v5, real shift-overlap TOI; Corsi incl blocked, xG unblocked. “Apart” is that teammate’s share in the minutes he played without Elias, so the swing is a comparison of the same player in two situations rather than against the league. Pairs need 100 minutes together to appear at all, and a swing still carries whoever else was on the ice — it is a strong hint, not an isolated effect.
2026-27
PuckCast Player Intelligence, and the skill radar and on-ice impact behind it.
Skill radar & on-ice impact vs. NHL forwards
56
Offense
38
Defense
Percentile ranks across 6 skill dimensions. Larger shape = more complete player.
Scouting Take
Displays elite offensive production, exceptional playmaking, a heavy penalty-kill workload, power play scoring. Areas for improvement: bleeds goals against at evens.
On-ice impact mirrored side by side. Equal bars = balanced. Asymmetry = one-dimensional.
The Gap
18-pt spreadLeans offensive. The 18-point spread between offensive (56th) and defensive (38th) percentiles is typical of a scoring-first center.
Percentile ranks across 6 skill dimensions.
Scouting Take
Displays elite offensive production, exceptional playmaking, a heavy penalty-kill workload, power play scoring. Areas for improvement: bleeds goals against at evens.
On-ice impact mirrored side by side.
The Gap
18-pt spreadLeans offensive. The 18-point spread between offensive (56th) and defensive (38th) percentiles is typical of a scoring-first center.
Career
Season-by-season NHL regular season statistics throughout Elias Pettersson's career.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | P | +/- | S | S% | PIM | PPG | TOI/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26-272026-27 | VAN | 16 | 4 | 12 | 16 | -3 | 24 | 16.7% | |||
| 25-262025-26 | VAN | 74 | 15 | 36 | 51 | -30 | 132 | 11.4% | |||
| 24-252024-25 | VAN | 64 | 15 | 30 | 45 | -10 | 109 | 13.8% |
Form
Elias's last five games played — playoff games included if his team advanced, since the NHL does not separate them here.
| Date | Opp | G | A | P | +/- | S | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31 | vs TOR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 21:09 |
| Oct 29 | @ SJS | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 21:25 |
| Oct 27 | @ ANA | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 24:57 |
| Oct 25 | vs MIN | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19:40 |
| Oct 22 | vs DET | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 | 20:48 |
Similar centers
Same position, comparable 2026-27 projected rate and 2026-27 shot/power-play rate. Compare Elias to another player
Roster
Top teammates by points on the Vancouver Canucks this season.
Bars are share of unblocked attempts, where he chooses to shoot, over a full season, which is the stable part. xG/100 compares his shot quality from a zone against the league rate for a forward. GAx is goals above expected there, a single season and noisy, zones marked * are flagged small-sample by the generator and are shown muted rather than hidden.
| 23-242023-24 | VAN | 82 | 34 | 55 | 89 | +20 | 207 | 16.4% |
| 22-232022-23 | VAN | 80 | 39 | 63 | 102 | +16 | 257 | 15.2% |
| 21-222021-22 | VAN | 80 | 32 | 36 | 68 | +1 | 192 | 16.7% |
| 20-212020-21 | VAN | 26 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 0 | 63 | 15.9% |
| 19-202019-20 | VAN | 68 | 27 | 39 | 66 | +16 | 162 | 16.7% |
| 18-192018-19 | VAN | 71 | 28 | 38 | 66 | +3 | 144 | 19.4% |
| Career | — | 561 | 204 | 320 | 524 | +13 | 1290 | 15.8% |
Max Sasson
C · 6 pts
