A photo has leaked inside Team Sweden's 4 Nations dressing room that shows Canucks' Elias Pettersson icing his knee, fueling major injury concerns. <a href='https://canucksarmy.com/news/should-vancouver-canucks-fans-concerned-elias-petterssons-lack-production-4-nations-canucks-conversation' class='lien_marqueur' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>On a recent episode of 'Canucks Conversation'</a>, Harman Dayal and David Quadrelli dissected Elias Pettersson's disappointing outing at the 4 Nations Face-Off with Team Sweden. <a href='https://www.hockeylatest.com/nhl-team/vancouver-canucks/frank-seravalli-blasts-elias-pettersson-for-brutal-reason-at-the-4-nations' class='lien_marqueur' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Pettersson was held without a point in all three games of the tournament</a> and was actually benched in the third period of Sweden's sole win of the tournament against the U.S., with the least ice time of all skaters to do so. <h3>NHL analyst Craig Button also completely bashed Pettersson</h3> I mean he was invisible, he was non existent.. - Craig Button <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/DonnieandDhali/status/1891988566604931542'> </a></blockquote></div> Back to Harman's take, he didn't beat around the bush while examining Pettersson's tribulation. His failure to speed up was the most glaring feature of a round filled with the NHL's finest and fastest skaters. He looked slow, said Harm. «There's nothing dynamic about the way he's playing, which is the same we've seen from him in Vancouver. Even when you go back to the flashes he's shown where he's played well - let's say the Toronto game right before the break - he had the gorgeous assist to Filip Hronek, but those plays have been at a standstill. Even some of his early point games, when he racks them up, it's been from stationary positions where he's leveraging his IQ and vision to execute those plays rather than moving his feet. Some fans have also attributed Pettersson's slump to Rick Tocchet's system, but Harman debunked that talk with his subpar performance within Sweden's system. Another important takeaway is - I don't want to hear people blame Rick Tocchet for Pettersson's struggles anymore, said Harm. That one bothered me for a while. I can agree that overall Tocchet's style isn't necessarily creating a lot of offence, or there's a possibility he's held the offence back, but with Pettersson specifically, there was a lot of talk about how he can create off the rush and Tocchet's system is forcing him to play dump-and-chase hockey. But watching him-even if he was allowed to create all he wanted - he can't beat anybody up the ice carrying the puck. So how is he going to create off the rush or in transition? Seeing him play for Sweden in an environment away from Tocchet proves to me that coaching isn't the primary issue. <h3>Pettersson was seen icing his knee in the dressing room</h3> An image of <a href='https://www.nhl.com/canucks/player/elias-pettersson-8480012' class='lien_marqueur' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Pettersson</a> icing his knee that was photographed by a news organization fueled speculation that a possible injury was the issue with him. <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/taj1944/status/1892397349009244441'> </a></blockquote></div> If his injuries persist or injury problems are still a question, his trade value will fall off, making offers increasingly hard to navigate. Time is of the essence if Pettersson is to reestablish himself as the best center that he once was.