It’s unfair when any hockey player is compared to Wayne Gretzky. When Gretzky does the comparing, it’s even worse.
So no pressure Elias Pettersson, because even though you’re 20 years old and 15 games into your NHL career, “The Great One” sees greatness in you.
“From my point of view, he’s got a lot of my similarities,” Gretzky said of the Vancouver Canucks rookie Monday on Canadian radio station Sportsnet 650. “Obviously, his hockey sense and his playmaking ability is as good as anybody right now and that’s probably where the comparisons come from. It’s much more the playmaking than anything else.