If Petersson is playing hardball with Vancouver this year… why wouldn’t he play hardball next year with Detroit when he has far more leverage via his qo?Risk yeah, but everything is negotiable.
You guys seem to always fear the worst.It's peanuts for Yzerman to negotiate the 2nd deal.
Think qualifying offer at end of season on a yearly basis just to keep him at 13 million if Red Wings offer and Canucks match. If it happens, it will be much easier for Petterson to just accept qualifying offer on an annual basis without any free agent negotiations just until he's at UFA age. If he's 100 pts player and Canucks could easily trade his RFA rights for high returns if he rejects the offer rather than commit him to a long term contract and helps with the cap flexibility with three options: on any off-season year: tendering QO, trades his right before QO or before draft Day or not tendering any QO and let him walk as UFA earlier or Petterson decides to reject the QO and sign for a team-friendly contract. The money says, he will never reject any QO until he's UFA age. It's a win-win situation for the Canucks if any team offer sheet a term that is just for one year at 13m because Canucks will not have to commit to Petterson if there's any career ending injury and is immediately off the book after a season rather than stuck at LTIR until his deal expires.
Players want far more long term security in their contracts than this. Both financially and to have a better chance at stability in their life.
Patterson can actually skate...and doesn't fall down in passing breezes....
I'm not sure I'd want to trade Suzuki for him without seeing two more years of Suzuki, but Petterson is a top 20 center.
Yes, security is important but knowing that the qualifying offer is a powerful tool if you offer him a higher one-year deal and you will not have to commit to his service until you will have to make a decision during UFA years and commit him to a long term deal. IF he wants security then offer him long term deal at a lower annual basis salary. Red Wings could easily offer sheet at that price without committing his service long-term. If players wants security then you need to prove them that you are worthy of that salary at end of the one-year deal and offer-sheet is a security in itself for young players because if a team does not tender any qualifying offer then he walks as a UFA and can always seek a security with other team. That is what all GM overlooks and continued to sign their own RFA and buy their UFA years and if any injury that affects long-term, it becomes a bad contract in itself.. If players at a lower salary having a good year, it's a common sense to reject the QO seek a long term deal at a higher salary and I would still accept his higher salary on a one-year deals and that is how you control your RFA and still maintain the reasonable salary and gives that players motivation to keep on performing on any one-year deals. If a player signs one-year deal and if they do not perform, then the teams will have to make a hard decision whether to tender QO to keep him or not and if a player received a QO and just had a bad season, then it's common sense for that player to accept that QO rather than go to arbitration and go as a UFA and most often that the team will be willing to give that young player a chance to redeem his bad season if you are below the UFA age. That is security in itself for both team and the player.
Ok. So that could possibly work from Petersson's perspective (which I'm still not fully convinced of). But based on the argument above, how does any of that make sense for Detroit?
I can understand this to a point. Is Pettersson the missing piece of the puzzle? Is he that much of an impact player with what would be around him to jettison those picks?
Zero chance Detroit drafts Wright or Bedard. If it happens awesome but i dont see it
