Jakob Pelletier lived a dream last Saturday, playing his first game in the NHL and he did not let this special moment for his family be spoiled by the controversial remarks of coach Darryl Sutter after the game.
Moreover, Sutter’s statement after the game against the Tampa Bay Lightning seemed to shock just about everyone more than Pelletier himself.
See Darryl Sutter’s words and what Guillaume Latendresse thinks about it in the video above.
Reached by the Journal late Sunday afternoon, the Quebec winger politely refused to expand on the words of the Flames head coach, simply mentioning that it had made him “neither hot nor cold” and that he had been surprised by the proportion it had taken on social media.
“I saw him this morning [Sutter] and he told me that I had played a good game and that it was flat that we were so often shorthanded because it had cost me ice time. He told me he liked what I brought despite my playing time, ”said the Flames’ first-round pick in 2019, who spent 6:50 on the ice for his baptism of fire. the NHL against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
“It went well”
If he answered the question about Sutter, it was because it was put to him by the author of these lines. Is that, for Pelletier, it was not the most important in history.
Most importantly, he finally got his first chance in the big league and felt like he did pretty well.
“I was quite stressed but after my first appearance, I realized that it was still the same sport. Of course it goes faster and the guys are bigger, but it’s the same game. The important thing was to trust me and I think it went well.
Before playing his first game, Pelletier had spent two weeks around the Flames, watching the first six games of his recall, in the stands. An experience, in the end, beneficial.
“The last year and a half, of practicing with them, it allowed me to see that I could play with these guys,” he mentions.
Pelletier could get his second NHL game on Monday against the Columbus Blue Jackets.
