It was a busy day for the Vancouver Canucks. First, they traded J.T. Miller to the New York Rangers; then they added depth to their roster with Marcus Pettersson and Drew O’Connor. Nonetheless, the massive query now’s, will the Canucks nonetheless commerce Elias Pettersson?
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NHL Hockey Insider Elliotte Friedman was on Sportsnet on Friday evening breaking down the J.T. Miller commerce. He was requested by the host if this meant Elias Pettersson was nonetheless available on the market. Friedman didn’t assume the Canucks can be prepared to commerce him now and predicted that Vancouver was not carried out dealing.
NHLRumors.com Transcriptions
Faizel Khamisa: “All proper, so the situations in Vancouver had been commerce one in every of J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson. Commerce, each, or commerce, one. Commerce none. One has now been dealt. So, is it your perception that Vancouver will proceed to have conversations round Pettersson, or is he now prone to keep via the March commerce deadline? What’s the deal sort of going ahead there?”
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Elliotte Friedman: “Faizell, I wish to hear what the Canucks say about this primary. I believe rather a lot has modified as we speak and there’s a few issues right here. I wish to hear what both Jim Rutherford or Patrik Allvin, whoever speaks to the media, says. Primary, I don’t assume the Canucks are completed dealing (They made one other commerce Friday evening as effectively buying and selling for Marcus Pettersson and Drew O’Connor). For those who’ll keep in mind a pair years in the past once they dealt Bo Horvat, they took the choose they acquired from it, and so they turned it into (Filip) Hronek. And I do assume that’s one thing that they’ll take into account right here, too, when it comes to, do they use the Rangers choose to exit and get one other asset (which the Canucks in the end did).
I additionally assume that in Pettersson’s case I had some individuals say to me, possibly they let him play just a little bit, let him fly. See what it’s like now that Miller’s traded. Do they provide him a shot and say, okay, he’ll rediscover his type? And the opposite factor that occurred as we speak Faizel is that the wage cap got here in for the subsequent three years, and it’s huge. And Pettersson, the factor about him, he’s at $11.6. If he rediscovers his type, that’s way more palpable.
Such as you at all times prepared to pay nice gamers, however 11.6 appears a lot much less daunting and far much less of an issue on, say, a $104 million cap and a $113.5 million greenback cap than it does on an 88 cap or a 95 cap, proper? So, like that was the one factor that folks stated to me as we speak was the bottom shifted within the NHL as we speak.
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A few of these contracts that look tight, they aren’t that tight, and so I believe Pettersson is doubtlessly a kind of. I wish to hear what the Canucks say as a result of I’m curious. I don’t assume they’re carried out dealing, however I’m curious to see in the event that they’re going to present Pettersson a little bit of a runway right here.”
NHLRumors.com Notice: Friedman was proper about one factor on this state of affairs. The Canucks weren’t completed dealing. President of Hockey Operations Jim Rutherford and GM Patrik Allvin continued their development of getting offers carried out earlier than the deadline. Vancouver acquired defenseman Marcus Pettersson and ahead Drew O’Connor for the Rangers’ 2025 first-round choose (conditional), ahead Danton Heinen, defenseman Vincent Desharnais, and 2024 third-round choose Melvin Fernstrom.
That is precisely what Vancouver did once they acquired Hronek. They used that choose from the Islanders to get him. Now the Canucks added depth to their protection with Pettersson and depth on the ahead place. Vancouver was not successful a J.T. Miller or an Elias Pettersson commerce. Nonetheless, now they’ve property just like what the Winnipeg Jets acquired for Pierre-Luc Dubois to stay aggressive within the Western Convention playoff race.
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