It's done to create confusion.
After the NHL draft continued today, the Vancouver Canucks now have two Elias Pettersson in their organization.
The new Elias Pettersson is an 18-year-old full-back who last season played in Örebro's SHL team and juniors.
He was selected in the third round as number 80 overall.
The back's favorite player is the star Elias Pettersson, but what they will do with the names of the shirts if he takes a place in the NHL team, he has not thought about.
- I do not know, he gets to decide.
The first Swede to go in this year's draft was Djurgården's Jonathan Lekkerimäki and he also went to Vancouver.
There are starting to be many Swedes in the club who have a Swedish general manager in Patrik Allvin and the brothers Henrik and Daniel Sedin in leadership roles within the organization.