[Donnie & Dhali] « Je soupçonne qu’il y aura une rencontre avec Pettersson après l’année, et il devra y avoir une vraie conversation sur la direction que prendront les choses et quelles sont les options… » Elliotte Friedman parle de l’avenir d’Elias Pettersson avec les Canucks
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seeldoger47
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[link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic_iWR2KdAU) to the full conversation
I cant imagine they keep moving forward with him. He says things but the follow up is not there.
Petey needs to move. We need to not go crazy when he performs better on a different team. Petey has always been one of my favourite players. I wear his jersey. I was on on the Petey bus running into this season as well, but it’s obvious this isn’t a good fit.
A team like Detroit where he can play with better wingers, behind Larkin, he’ll thrive. We need to lose this contract to move forward.
At his age at his price he has to go
How many times do we have to sit down with Petey? This is the third offseason in a row.
Clean house everywhere. Goodbye management, goodbye Foote, and goodbye Petey.
Man I’m about as annoyed with his lack of production as anyone else but I just can’t get behind the idea of trading him right now.
We aren’t exactly hurting for cap space, and I don’t love trading him at an all time low in value. Trading him either means we accept retaining for 6+ years, or take back a lot of money anyways while getting scraps in return.
There’s more value in keeping him around imo. Let him have another offseason, see what our new coach can do with him. If we end up with one of the two wingers in the draft it gives them another option for a top 6 centre to play with. See if Petey can bounce back even a little and up his trade stock
I was entirely behind him heading into this season but when Rossi showed what he can do with the same team, I’ve kinda given up hope on him resetting while in Vancouver. And as much as some people don’t want to hear it, his implosion is the reason we dropped from the 2nd round of the playoffs to dead last this year. Not saying it’s his fault, I still believe there’s been mismanagement of his injury, but when your star center falls off the face of the earth relatively speaking, there’s knock on effects (Miller feud – > Quinn checking out). It sucks cause he’s my favourite Canuck since Burrows, but if he doesn’t come out the gate next year propelling whatever rookie we get to the top of the Calder charts, he needs to be moved.
Really feels late for that. Sure I guess it still needs to happen but, uh, last year was obviously the year to do it before the NMC kicked in. What are they even going to discuss? Hey, you’re not as good as we needed, the demand for trading for you isn’t there, but do you feel like waiving or giving it another go?
Can’t wait for Petey to leave to Detroit or some other random ass team and immediately drop 100 points next season :/
I hear LA is nice this time a year, Petey
I’ve been a defender of the guy, but I think he needs a new start. Just too much baggage now considering we have moved so many pieces. Than you Francesco aquafuckface.
I think he needs a change of scenery. There’s some interest in him, best to do a little bit of retention and trade him.
He gone
u/EP40glazer
Sounds like the sit down that should have happened when they were negotiating the contract
Pettersson is so arrogant I bet he would just smirk the whole time and then at the start of next season he will say he put on 15lbs of muscle and not produce again.
If the Canucks really want to force his hand, bench him like he should have been and see what happens.
He needs to be held accountable.
Management showed with the « Keep Quinn Happy » style of team building that they’re willing to make concessions and decisions for a star player. This group gave Petey this contract, and seemingly haven’t really done anything outwardly to bring the best out of him. They’ve just attacked him publicly for an injury and work ethic. You’d think that given he has a NMC and isn’t a desirable option for other teams, how can we make the most of this asset and appease him.
So much of the teams future success in the short term (which we know ownership and management are after) hinges on him being a true 1C, if the conversations in the off-season don’t revolve around getting that true 1C value out of him I don’t really understand what the vision is.
The thing with Petey is his cap hit doesn’t matter for a few years anyway because we suck. Also the cap will go up, more players will sign bigger deals, and his contract will look better (still bad). I’d rather hold on to him for a few more seasons and hope his value increases. I see almost no reason to get rid of him for now.
I hate watching him in a Canucks jersey now. He’s been a sad and pathetic presence for too long. Shouldn’t of paid him so much, people have left town knowing hes supposed to be the star here. Hoping he gets traded don’t want him rubbing off on the future of the team that matters.
You could argue there’s no point in trading him now for scraps but there’s one key factor-he’s clearly not happy here. I’d rather hit the cap floor with a guy that’s happy with his role on our team.
This is not hate, I feel for the guy. He can’t find his game and he’s facing the pressure of a canadian market with a large portion blaming him for the implosion (he’s partially, not fully responsible). I’d be happy if he became elite again on another team but it’s likely not happening with us.
There’s a timeline where Petey got traded to Carolina and we had another player during our playoff run which we acquired through the first we received from him which likely gets us through Edmonton. There’s a real possibility we’d still have Hughes and Miller right now. Possibly without Miller falling off like he has.
I knew that extension was a mistake. Put too much pressure on him and hes not that kinda guy
I sooo want Petey to light it up again and prove everybody wrong but I’ve lost faith. I think those that are saying there are teams that are willing to take a chance on him are wild-ass speculating. We would likely have heard rumours of tire kicking but there’s nothing. He is a Canuck until the bulk of his contract has been paid out, if not all of it, by Vancouver. It’s just another gamble that didn’t pay off. Sigh.
Petey is cooked what dont you understand .the revenge tour is over
Pointless. A review will indicate what everyone already knows. Not like he’s tradable regardless of what the they say in the review.
The only one who can who can truly turn this around is Petey himself. Not the fans, not management, not the coach, not any future line mates.
It needs to be sacrificing the summer off, reach out to the Sedins or someone of that capacity and bust ass all summer. Or do more of the same and have another year of bad media attention and muddling along just to cash them paychecks.
I don’t see the camaraderie in him with our new group of young players, he seems out of place. I think it’s best if we traded him and get someone that fits the Canucks current timeline, and he can get a fresh start somewhere else.