Elias Pettersson, Mom Said Blow Your Mind – The Athletic

The Vancouver Canucks got the game time any NHL hockey team would kill for, an 11 a.m. start during the NFL playoffs on a Sunday.

You know that all eyes will be on you when you face off against a team from the other conference, so it should come as no shock at all that Elias Pettersson used this Wrestlemania moment to do his best.

Thought Rock vs. Hulk was off the charts?

Ovechkin versus Pettersson. A whole globe is watching because NFL football is of no interest to anyone in the sports world.

Game.

On.

Let us do this.

Best endless cycle of life

For anyone who missed the game, it’s important to note that due to COVID-19 protocol, Conor Garland was not in the lineup.

Which, of course, begged the question of who would step up and be the spinning master in his absence?

Obviously there was only one answer:

Nils Höglander turns away from this check as if it were a Cam Robinson scouting report on him!

I imagine somewhere that Garland was resting, hydrating like a champ, giving the TV screen a thumbs up, and then quickly spinning in circles and taking some Advil.