StickShift
In a pickle 🥒
Crazy how little impact our $11.6m player is having on the game.
That contract is unmovable. He's not going anywhere.
The league will definitely hold his performance against the Canucks in trade talks—but I think other GMs are also acutely aware that he is sulking on the Canucks and would be a different player on a different team. It reminds me a lot of Jack Eichel towards the end of his time with Buffalo.
Superstar 1C caliber players are incredibly rare and hardly ever become available. Make no mistake he has demonstrated he can get to that level. There will be no shortage of suitors. Some teams have gone decades without such a player.
It's just a shame that he's decided to coast as a low-end 2C with Vancouver rather than play to his full potential. But, the likelihood is that the package of parts we get back for him will contribute more than what this current version of Pettersson in Vancouver would contribute.