from Ben Kuzma of the Vancouver Province,

Elias Pettersson had a pretty good answer to a pretty good query Monday.

When the slick Swedish centre was asked how many minutes he would like to log for the Vancouver Canucks after hitting the 19-minute mark twice in his rookie NHL season, he offered up the money quote.

“Interesting question,” pondered Pettersson. “I don’t know. If I could, I like to play 60 minutes a game.”

That’s what you expect from an extremely confident 19-year-old wunderkind.

He unleashed a howitzer off a cross-ice feed and then scored on a breakaway and now has seven goals in his first seven regular-season games. He did everything against the Minnesota Wild to prove that his first career concussion is a thing of the past and that the future is packed with potential.

Here’s what we learned as the Canucks got a 37-save performance from Jacob Markstrom to claim a 5-2 victory, but lost Brandon Sutter to a suspected second-period right shoulder injury:

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