Donnie & Dhali: J.P. Barry, the agent for Vancouver Canucks center Elias Pettersson, on the trade rumors, if he’s blissful in Vancouver, and what if he’s approached to waive his no-movement clause.
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Don Taylor: “What do you make of all this talk regarding Elias Patterson possibly being moved by the Vancouver Canucks?”
Barry: “Well, I mean, I take it with a grain of salt, because, I mean, when a team isn’t doing well, then everybody’s going to be discussed. And after we’ve talked about prior to now, it’s all the time hard for us when it’s a player who has a no-move, but that’s the fact of you already know where things are when things don’t go well.
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So you already know for us, we understand it’s not real, unless you already know the GM is asking us and saying that there’s an actual team or a deal, and would you think about it? So I, you already know nine out of 10 times it’s only a rumor.”
Taylor: “Is he blissful? He says he’s. Is he blissful on and off the ice of Vancouver, JP?”
Barry: “Yeah, I believe he’s blissful. I mean, it’s, nobody’s blissful after they’re losing. So, I mean, he committed, you already know, to be there and take a look at to make the very best of it, and he’s going to try this. And I’m sure there’s gonna be all types of discussions at the top of this 12 months about every player on that team. So we will’t avoid that.”
Rick Dhaliwal: “JP, in the event that they do come to you and say, ‘Hey, will you waive?’ That’s a call you and Elias are going to should, at the moment, I assume, start fascinated about something.”
Barry: “Yeah, where it gets problematic is when things get public in that area. Like, people think that the player should routinely waive to whoever they need to waive to.
And the fact is that whenever you, when you could have the leverage to have a no-move, such as you’re giving up lots. You realize, there’s, there’s, you’re principally purchasing that for sometimes 1,000,000 dollars or more.
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So the player, you already know, retains the appropriate to go to a spot that he desires to go to. And it’ll open up that sort of dialogue, but that hasn’t happened yet. And, but yeah, I mean, obviously it must be a location that works for each side.”
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