Rumor: Canucks have taken Elias Pettersson EP40 off the trade market

[Warh1ppy]

Going back to the beginning of the new year Elias Pettersson has only 7 points in 23 games. Only 1 of them being a goal. He is anemic at faceoffs lately, has only taken 31 shots on net and is a -6 overall.

People suggesting right now that multiple pieces including; blue chip young players 26 and under as well as futures would be available for Pettersson are out to lunch.

Sorry kids, that is not haw things work. Every GM in the league is watching and seeing that this top 5 paid player in the league is producing at an abysmal .84 points per every 3 games and that is including playing with some of the best wingers in the world in his 4 nations stint.

Nobody is offering up a show for Pettersson and the Canucks better hope to hell he regains his form because the only reason he has been "pulled off of the trade board" is because his value is an absolute negative right now and no GM in the world is going to pay what the canucks would need to trade him

 

[Qwijibo]

We haven't had a 100 point player in 40 years. MSL can fix him.

Don't want anything to do with ep40. Hes the 5th highest paid player in the league abd has been pkaying lihe crap for over a year now. He's soft as baby crap, can't go a shift without falling down, and can't handle the press in Vancouver. Montreal would eat him.alive.

 

[Prior]

Wouldn’t the more correct title be “EP40” play, mentality, and awful contract has taken him off the market?

 

[Stringer Bell]

Why not send him down to the AHL for a bit?

 

[Qwijibo]

Why not send him down to the AHL for a bit?

As bad as he's been do you really think they'd take the chance of losing him on waivers for nothing?

 

[HaNotsri]

Wouldn’t the more correct title be “EP40” play, mentality, and awful contract has taken him off the market?

Yeah, I think it's the market that has disappeared.

 

[JKG33]

As bad as he's been do you really think they'd take the chance of losing him on waivers for nothing?

I would. Gets outta that contract at least

 

[Joe Sakic]

FYI you can get a 35pt player for less than $11.6M.

 

[Stringer Bell]

As bad as he's been do you really think they'd take the chance of losing him on waivers for nothing?

Which teams have 11.6 in cap space or however is needed to simply pick up?

Teams that spend money are already at the cap. Teams that aren’t at the cap can’t spend the money and even if they were ever given the green light by their owner it wouldn’t be for an 11.6 million dollar player playing like a 3 million one.

 

[kvladimir]

Which teams have 11.6 or however is needed to simply pick up?

ANA, BUF, CGY, CHI, CBJ, DET, NSH, UTH, WPG (with one demotion), and SJ.

He would be picked up in a heartbeat

 

[stats1]

Buffalo seems like a logical fit. They are probably dying to make a big move and do something to turn things around.