Elliotte Friedman Reveals Details on the Feud Between Teammates Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller
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Elliotte Friedman shared details of the feud between Vancouver Canucks teammates Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller.
Over the past months, an alleged feud between Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller has been a hot topic among Vancouver Canucks fans. Even the Canucks' captain Quinn Hughes talked about it in an interview.
Ever since J.T. Miller returned from his leave of absence from the teams, many rumors of tension with Pettersson emerged.
Pettersson himself debunked these rumors in recent comments, saying that communication is much better than it was:
"To be honest, I didn't really know there was a story, I'm not on Twitter or anything, so I don't see that stuff.
"I heard some rumblings of that stuff, but no. We're here to win hockey games and they both know that, and I think the communication has gotten better. We just gotta stick together and worry about winning hockey games...
We gotta come to the rink and work harder, and that's really it right now."
"I heard some rumblings of that stuff, but no. We're here to win hockey games and they both know that, and I think the communication has gotten better. We just gotta stick together and worry about winning hockey games...
We gotta come to the rink and work harder, and that's really it right now."
However, yesterday, in an intervention on Hockey Night in Canada, the renowned insider Elliotte Friedman stated that the relationship between Miller and Pettersson is unique and that because it impacts the rest of the organization, management started to realize that "something is going to have to give".
Read his comments here:
"It's not new to people who follow the Canucks that [Miller] and Pettersson have a unique relationship, to say the least.
Number one, the Canucks thought this was solved last year, the team had a great year the two players had a great year and they thought they had moved past this, obviously that wasn't the case.
Number two it's bled into the way they've played on the ice and that can't happen, you can't have it affect the way and the team is playing.
And number three and this is probably the most important one, it has started to take its toll on other people in the organization, the players, the coaching staff, and the hockey operations department.
No, I don't think there's a timeline or anything like that, they haven't started the clock, but eventually I think everybody realizes that something is going to have to give."
Number one, the Canucks thought this was solved last year, the team had a great year the two players had a great year and they thought they had moved past this, obviously that wasn't the case.
Number two it's bled into the way they've played on the ice and that can't happen, you can't have it affect the way and the team is playing.
And number three and this is probably the most important one, it has started to take its toll on other people in the organization, the players, the coaching staff, and the hockey operations department.
No, I don't think there's a timeline or anything like that, they haven't started the clock, but eventually I think everybody realizes that something is going to have to give."
As we get closer to the trade deadline, it'll be interesting to see how things unfold in Vancouver. If they can't get along, either Pettersson or Miller could end up being traded to another organization.
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