With speculation swirling around the Vancouver Canucks, the future of Elias Pettersson is becoming a major talking point. Canucks GM Patrik Allvin recently hinted that a trade involving their star center isn’t entirely out of the question. Could Vancouver make a shocking decision before his trade protection kicks in? We explore what this could mean for the team and its future.
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yea they should. trade!!! i seems more and more like a complete tire fire
They should NOT move Pettersson. He is a Selke-caliber center, and those guys are never available on the FA market. If you trade him, you get futures (draft picks) or existing players that the other team will give up. The problem is that Vancouver will end up in that mediocre middle, never having a high enough draft pick to improve their roster, and too good to get a high pick they can build around. Also, if they trade him, they will say goodbye to Quinn Hughes in two and a half years because the Canucks will be worse without Pettersson. Pettersson is 26; he's still two years from his peak. Miller, who is having a terrible year both personally and professionally, needs to shut his yap; he's on the downward slide in his career; if they are going to part with one of them, they should move Miller while he still has some value.
I'm a Cancks fan and follow them more closely than you obviously do. I would say that Petey is not a headcase so much as he is still a little immature. I was surprised to learn that he was still on social media earlier this year, considering that most players do not do much with social media because there will always be haters, no matter how loved you are. Vancouver is full of passionate fans, and Pettersson is a lightning rod for both the lovers and the haters. In reality, he should ask for a trade to NY, Seattle, or Vegas, where he can disappear into the background. Even if he were one of the three or four faces of the franchise, he'd be able to walk the streets in relative anonymity where people would only see a handsome blonde man, not OMG, IT'S PETEY!!!!!! Which is what he gets in Vancouver.