Sweden's Pettersson ready to embrace pressure, responsibility at Olympics

Pettersson Embraces Olympic Pressure, Reflects on Historic Memories

Elias Pettersson is primed to take on the pressures and responsibilities of representing Team Sweden at the upcoming Winter Olympics. The 27-year-old Vancouver Canucks center reflects on his childhood memory of watching Sweden win gold in 2006, and he's eager to create new memories in Italy. With key teammates potentially sidelined, Pettersson is ready to step up and prove himself after facing challenges over the past two seasons, including a di…

Sweden's Pettersson ready to embrace pressure, responsibility at Olympics

VANCOUVER — Elias Pettersson’s strongest Olympic memory is also his first. He was seven years old, at his grandfather’s house in a tiny town near where Elias grew up in central Sweden, watching his hockey heroes play arch-rivals Team Finland in the 2006 final from Turin. “I still remember watching it at my grandpa’s house,” Pettersson told Sportsnet before travelling last week to Italy for the Winter Olympics. “It was a village where probably 50…