#tanner pearson

feat some interesting comments lmao

Long before they were joined at the hip during rookie seasons that culminated with a Stanley Cup championship, Tanner Pearson and Tyler Toffoli were actually fierce, emotionally driven rivals on a pair of Eastern Conference Ontario Hockey League teams. They finished second and third in the league in scoring in 2011-12 - Toffoli with 52 goals and 100 points for the Ottawa 67's and Pearson with 37 goals and 91 points for the Barrie Colts - in a competitive push that boiled over when Pearson, who would be drafted 30th overall by the LA Kings that June, slashed his future teammate in the face during a regular season game.

every time someone's like "omg poor toff has to be the dad he's so victimized" i'm like no actually this is the experience you have when you look at some dumb baby lesbians u-hauling their way through a cat adoption fair, absolutely convinced they've invented naming a skrunkly dumpster kitten after whatever stupid white boy rap song they've had on repeat which comes while your own dumb lesbian situationship kitten, now a grown ass cat who has shredded half your furniture, purrs gently on your lap.

keep in mind that during this regime’s tenure we’ve had jason dickinson play nearly an entire season with a broken hand that he didn’t know was broken until he was traded, demko play through a knee issue that resulted in a groin issue (back in 2022-2023), mikheyev play much of a season on an acl that he tore in training camp before ultimately having a season-ending surgery (he said it was his decision but if you as a medical staff are letting a player do that then???), and botched tanner pearson’s hand injury so badly that quinn hughes himself said that he thought it was mishandled. arguably, they rushed demko back before the playoffs last april, which is how a knee injury ended up as the first-ever nhl popliteus injury.

remember in late 2021 when pettersson wasn’t playing as well as usual and lots of people thought he looked injured? and everyone denied it? and then it turned out that he’d had a wrist injury? lol!!!!

pettersson’s current performance issues started around feb 2024. he said himself that his knee started becoming painful in january and kept getting worse from that point. in training camp, he admitted that he had to train around his knee in the offseason. given the weird situations that have happened under the canucks’ medical staff, why exactly would canucks fans look at petey (who very clearly isn’t moving as well as he used to), look at his skating data (which proves that he isn’t moving as well as he used to), listen to what the player personally has said, and think “idk he probably just doesn’t try hard enough anymore”?

add in that canucks management apparently were unhappy that he had been honest about his knee at the end of last season (iain macintyre said this in a canucks central postgame show fairly recently — i believe after the miller trade?) and i just quite simply have zero reason to believe that they’ve handled this situation well.

Annual photo day shenanigans