Confirmed with Link: Canucks sign Marcus Pettersson to a 6y/5.5m Extension

[alternate]

Deal is pretty much perfect. Good job AV, thank you MP.

Hopefully Marcus reacts to his new deal better than the OGP did.

 

[sandwichbird2023]

Much better deal than I anticipated, both in money and terms. MP3 must really want to be here, since he has all the leverage and didn't squeeze every pennies out of the team.

LSD of Hughes, MP3, and Junior/Forbort is pretty stack!

 

[Bojack Horvatman]

I thought it would be 6-6.5 with the rising cap. Great deal, though I feel in ~3 years, he'll be overtaken by DPetey. But a lot can happen between now and then and the LD position looks great going forward.

Honestly D-Petey overtaking Marcus in the top 4 in the next 2-3 years would be an amazing problem to have. It means we would have a really strong top 5 D if both Willander and D-Petey develop, and with both Willander and D-Petey being on ELCs, rising cap, and this being a great value contract, we can afford to pay 3LD 5.5m.

 

[TraderJim]

The talent around the league is already being spread too thin with 32 teams and it's hurting the on ice product.

Really hope expansion is done for the foreseeable future.

It's getting worse too. The economy is reducing the talent pool quite considerably.

 

[DimitriL07]

Damn love it

 

[quat]

Much better deal than I anticipated, both in money and terms. MP3 must really want to be here, since he has all the leverage and didn't squeeze every pennies out of the team.

LSD of Hughes, MP3, and Junior/Forbort is pretty stack!

Things definitely look promising with this addition at a very reasonable contract, DPetey surprising with his consistent and improving play (small sample size), along with the promise of Willander on the horizon.

What's even more promising, is you have Huges, Hronek, and MPetey as great examples of how to excel at different approaches to playing defense.

 

[Jyrki21]

Heh, the fact of a quick extension seemed automatic (still falls short of the Jim Benning-Brandon Sutter sound barrier), and to be honest this is kind of what I expected. I don't know the player that well so perhaps I'm underestimating him, but $6M/year still sounds like star money to me, because I'm old fashioned that way. (I think Hronek's cost is quite high for what he is too, but they were in a similar position optics-wise).

 

[timw33]

Slam.

****ing.

Dunk.

I am honestly surprised that after seeing Lindell 5.25MMx5 and Roy 5.75MMx6 deals, combined with the like 8.5% year over year cap inflation in the next three years, that we got him at a 5.5MM AAV with that term.

Takes him through his Age 34 season, team friendly trade protection in the back half of the deal.

Looking forward to having THREE legitimate top-4D men in the lineup.

 

[DimitriL07]

MP got 2 games to look at EP and felt bad for us so he took a discount. True soldier.

 

[credulous]

like the cap hit hate the term. this is allvin's myers contract imo

 

[I am toxic]

Things definitely look promising with this addition at a very reasonable contract, DPetey surprising with his consistent and improving play (small sample size), along with the promise of Willander on the horizon.

What's even more promising, is you have Huges, Hronek, and MPetey as great examples of how to excel at different approaches to playing defense.

And Myers

 

[pitseleh]

Great deal. To put this in context, this is the equivalent to a $4.7 million AAV when Myers signed his $6x6 or a $3.5 million AAV when Hamhuis got $4.5x6.

I also think we are going to look back on this deal fondly when we see the signings that come through this summer.

 

[mriswith]

I'm very happy with the trade protection dropping after year 3, pretty rare to get away with that while landing the #1 upcoming d ufa. Being able to Schmidt him after 3 years mitigates a lot of the risk of signing an older player to a long term deal.

 

[Lawzy]

Quick, tidy work.

 

[arttk]

Canucks now have 16 players signed to one-way contracts for the 2025-26 season. Projected cap space for next season is 20.46m.

Time to let Soucy go

 

[Bleach Clean]

like the cap hit hate the term. this is allvin's myers contract imo

You're not getting that AAV without risking term.

 

[God]

Heh, the fact of a quick extension seemed automatic (still falls short of the Jim Benning-Brandon Sutter sound barrier), and to be honest this is kind of what I expected. I don't know the player that well so perhaps I'm underestimating him, but $6M/year still sounds like star money to me, because I'm old fashioned that way. (I think Hronek's cost is quite high for what he is too, but they were in a similar position optics-wise).

Yeah, 6m/yr was always my baseline since it was the Sedins' cap hits, and nobody should've exceeded them at the time..

Hamhuis' 4.5m/yr contract with the Canucks was ~7.58% of the cap when he signed it, and this contract is ~5.76% of next year's cap. Pretty good.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

at the same age, myers got $6m over 5

baldy > shoepolish

 

[arttk]

You're not getting that AAV without risking term.

Yeah this is nothing like the Myers contract… Myers never lived up to that contract.
5.5M in a 95M cap environment is very very different than 6M in a 80M cap environment.

 

[Canuckle1970]

Fantastic news! WOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!

 

[Diversification]

He plays a style of game that's dependent on hockey IQ, angles and leverage. Not so dependent on skating or explosiveness so I predict he'll age fairly gracefully into his mid-30's much like Tanev has.

In fact, if you compare Tanev's 4.5M taking him to 40 y.o. vs. MP3's 5.5M taking him to 34, I'd bet on the latter.

 

[Peter Griffin]

Great AAV and great term. Hard to not love this signing.

 

[rypper]

Signing bonuses of 2.5m last 4 years of the deal.

 

[orcatown]

Yeah this is nothing like the Myers contract… Myers never lived up to that contract.
5.5M in a 95M cap environment is very very different than 6M in a 80M cap environment.

Good point but believe Myers has fully lived up to present contract and that deal looks good (if Myers doesn't age out too quickly) moving ahead.

 

[arttk]

Good point but believe Myers has fully lived up to present contract and that deal looks good (if Myers doesn't age out too quickly) moving ahead.

Oh yeah he’s full value so far.