Source: Iain MacIntyre, Sportsnet.ca, October 4, 2018
VANCOUVER — If you were lucky enough not to blink in the split-second it took Elias Pettersson to shoot and score in his National Hockey League debut on Wednesday, you saw the future of the Vancouver Canucks emerge.
“I got a blackout, I was so happy,” Pettersson, the 19-year-old Swedish sensation, said later. “It didn’t feel it was real at first. It was an amazing feeling, a feeling I will never forget.”
It was a goal nobody on the West Coast will forget, as Pettersson angled his stick to pass on a two-on-one then cocked his wrists and from almost behind his back foot rocketed a shot into the short-side top corner to beat Calgary Flames goalie Mike Smith at 13:48 of the first period. It was Petterson’s first shot in the NHL.
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