If you look at the Penguins’ most common defense pairings, and even the most common defense pairings in the league, the Pettersson-Marino pairing always scores very well and produces strong numbers across the board in terms of controlling puck possession, scoring chances, high-danger scoring chances, expected goals, and actual goals. While neither player is much of a difference-maker on their own, and both have significant contracts that the Penguins need to work out long-term, their numbers always work out well together as a pairing.
Pettersson spent the bulk of his season playing on the Penguins’ second defense pair alongside John Marino with mixed results.
Pettersson played in all seven playoff games for the Penguins and averaged more than 20 minutes of ice-time per game, scoring zero goals, adding two assists, and finishing as a plus-three, tied for the best mark among the team’s defensemen in the playoffs. He is almost exclusively a 5-on-5 player for the Penguins. Pettersson spent almost all of his time this season playing during even-strength, averaging more than 15 minutes per game of even-strength ice-time, but only 16 seconds per game (each) on the power play and penalty kill. He still has three more years remaining on that contract with a salary cap hit of $4.025 million per season.įun facts: Pettersson has played five seasons in the NHL and scored exactly two goals in four of those seasons. Draft: 38th overall (Second Round, 2014 by Anaheim Ducks)Ģ021-22 Statistics: 72 games, two goals, 17 assists, 19 total points, plus-eight, 38 penalty minutes.Ĭontract Status: Pettersson just completed the second year of a five-year, $20.125 million contract that he signed with the team on January 28, 2020.
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