{"id":344619,"date":"2025-12-14T12:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344619\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T12:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:15:19","slug":"elias-pettersson-out-marco-rossi-could-make-canucks-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344619\/","title":{"rendered":"Elias Pettersson Out, Marco Rossi Could Make Canucks Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

The whirlwind around the Vancouver Canucks will continue into Sunday\u2019s game against the New Jersey Devils. Vancouver will be without their star forward Elias Pettersson<\/a>, but could return Marco Rossi<\/a> back from injury, per Thomas Drance of The Athletic<\/a>. Rossi has missed over a month of action with a lower-body injury. He has been considered as day-to-day over the last week and could now get the chance to make his Canucks debut in the first possible opportunity.<\/p>\n

Rossi should be a major addition to a Vancouver side that\u2019s struggled to fill their top-center role all season long. He scored 13 points in 17 games with the Wild to start the season, and is coming off a career year with 24 goals and 60 points last season. He was a fringe top-line center to start the year, rotating with Joel Eriksson Ek<\/a> for minutes. That\u2019s a standing he earned in the latter half of last season, when injuries to Eriksson Ek and Ryan Hartman<\/a> pushed Rossi into a premier role. He hung onto it, despite a playoff series with minimal usage, and now has a chance to grow into a much larger role for Vancouver. The 24 year old scored 49 goals and 114 points in 202 games, and five seasons, in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Even with that production, Rossi could face an immediate challenge stepping in for Pettersson, who hasn\u2019t played in over a week due to an upper-body injury. Pettersson has continued to serve as Vancouver\u2019s top forward. He led the offense in average ice time (20:37) prior to injury and continues to lead the forwards in points (22). Vancouver has struggled in his absence, with only six goals in their last three games \u2013 tied for third-worst in the league over the last week.<\/p>\n

With a return from injury and recent move weighing him down, Rossi likely won\u2019t be the one to relight Vancouver\u2019s offense out of the gates. His return will be a great indication of what Vancouver will have to offer on the heels of a historic trade. They acquired three young and promising pros and could slot two of them \u2013 Rossi and defenseman Zeev Buium<\/a> \u2013 into top-line roles right away. How they\u2019re able to perform under the pressure of a losing season could go far in forecasting Vancouver\u2019s next era, now shaped around three former Minnesota Wild, Pettersson, and inevitably high draft capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The whirlwind around the Vancouver Canucks will continue into Sunday\u2019s game against the New Jersey Devils. Vancouver will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,13057,5718,14929,82,452],"class_list":{"0":"post-344619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-elias-pettersson","11":"tag-injury","12":"tag-marco-rossi","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-vancouver-canucks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}