Around the League Thread | November Rain

[F A N]

I don't see a clear path to a Pettersson trade with CBJ. Their pieces are nice on paper but they don't help us much within our specific window of Hughes' contract. I think there are other potential partners/assets that are more appealing:

OTT - B. Tkachuk
CAR - Necas, Svechnikov
BUF - Cozens, Power, Byram

CBJ absolutely has pieces that help us. Like hypothetically but absolutely won't happen - Werenski (50% retained and waives his trade protection) and Fantili for Petey would absolutely help.

These trades are inherently difficult to make.

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

Hilarious reading the boards where everyone wants to deal Petey.

See people suggesting for Byram and Cozens.

Go to Sabres board, they are pissed off with Byram and Cozens and have mixed (at best) faith in them.

The grass is always greener.

Relax, take a breath. It feels bigger than it is. He will figure it out.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Hilarious reading the boards where everyone wants to deal Petey.

See people suggesting for Byram and Cozens.

Go to Sabres board, they are pissed off with Byram and Cozens and have mixed (at best) faith in them.

The grass is always greener.

Relax, take a breath. It feels bigger than it is. He will figure it out.

I would agree with you if this was just a slow start to this season.

But it isn't.

This dates back to March and is now swiftly approaching 60 games of poor performance. There is every reason to worry.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

I would agree with you if this was just a slow start to this season.

But it isn't.

This dates back to March and is now swiftly approaching 60 games of poor performance. There is every reason to worry.

I'm willing to give it November to see if things get better but trading Petey has to be a discussion at some point soon. We only have this season to essentially take the best offer available before he can dictate everything.

 

[Hodgy]

Eichel appeared to have a career-threatening injury at the time and never had the level of performance that 22-23 Pettersson brought.

He was also holding out to force a trade so Buffalo had less leverage than we would right now.

Ya, I know. The situations aren’t analogous. There are different reasons why Eichel’s value was lower than normal, and frankly, the medical reason was the only reason he became available at all, but none of the reasons were production reasons though. And that’s a big difference.

 

[rypper]

Things are going well on the island....

https://x.com/i/web/status/1852748473264656721

 

[krutovsdonut]

WTF is going on with all this trade Pety talk anyways?

Selling low also isn't a good option.

sure he is in a funk but we have seen what he is capable of and so soon forget.

That being said he is like the modern day Mogliny, not sure what you are going to get season to season.

baying hounds are gonna bay.

 

[krutovsdonut]

Ya, I know. The situations aren’t analogous. There are different reasons why Eichel’s value was lower than normal, and frankly, the medical reason was the only reason he became available at all, but none of the reasons were production reasons though. And that’s a big difference.

absolutely. trading petey right now would be like trading eichel without the identified surgical path to bring him back to full health and without eichel's clear determination to get better. you'd know something was wrong but not what could fix it and you'd be in the dark about the player's commitment to address his ailment. it would also be the canucks giving up on petey months after extending him which would set off alarm bells.

so i think the only way he gets moved is if he requests a trade, at which point the city/dressing room becomes the excuse and a team can believe a change of scenery will fix things. the canuck can say they don't want to trade him and a trade request is at least an implied explanation that the problem is his current situation and a promise to play better elsewhere with another team.

but we are a long long way from there yet. he's in an early season slump and he may in fact have a nagging inury that is contributing but being downplayed.

in that regard, the other day i skinned my right thumb when a piece of wood broke off when i was ripping a board on a table saw. holy hell has that small physical injury in a key spot interfered with the things i can do.