The goal came with Stutzle (Ottawa Senators) and Draisaitl skating on the same line with Peterka.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, it’s super fun,\u201d Peterka said of playing on that line. \u201cWe all try to get open for each other, try to find each other. I mean, if you play with two players that are that good, it just feels good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sturm said the goal for Peterka, who has 20 for Utah this season, came at a \u201cperfect time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe prides himself on scoring and being a difference-maker, and sometimes, you know, I’ve never been that guy in my career, so I can’t really look inside his head,\u201d Sturm said. \u201cBut I know that most guys that are like him, it wears on him a little bit when they don’t get on the score sheet a lot, and we need him moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s likely Germany deploys the same line Wednesday in its next elimination game against Slovakia.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn’t want to be out there against them,\u201d Sturm said. \u201cLeon’s puck-protection skills are probably the best in the League, and he has the ability to find players where there’s no seams, really, and he makes like a cross-ice pass with his backhand. And obviously, then he has two guys that can finish, so it’s about as lethal as it gets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The goal came with Stutzle (Ottawa Senators) and Draisaitl skating on the same line with Peterka. \u201cOh, it’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-482933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482933","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=482933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}