Would Elias Pettersson even consider waiving his no-movement clause?
NHL Trade Alert: Elliotte Friedman said on Oilers Now with Bob Stauffer on Wednesday that he doesn’t have any indication that Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Pettersson could be willing to waive his no-movement clause. He says the identical for Canucks defenseman Filip Hronek. All of the trade rumors are moot. Friedman adds that teams would should make big offers to the Canucks, to make them go to Pettersson to ask if he’d consider it.
What could the return for Elias Pettersson possibly appear like?
Sportsnet 650: Are the Vancouver Canucks beginning to wonder if Elias Pettersson has slightly more trade value than they might have initially thought?
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Host: “But is it realistic to expect that, even in a trade, that he would bring back greater than what the Canucks got in a J.T. Miller trade, and that’s perhaps a first-round pick that’s going to be a bit later, most probably. You’re getting an okay prospect, and also you got to take a contract back. Like that, to me, looks like the template for the best-case scenario for Petey at once.
Frank Seravalli: “I believe they’d do way higher than that.
Host: “You’re thinking that they’ll?
Seravalli: “I believe they, yeah, I do. I believe the market has modified pretty drastically on Pettersson. Because teams realize how hard it’s to amass a player like that.
They usually see the upside, they usually see what other centers are being paid, they usually’re saying, ‘Well, $11.6 (million) is definitely a risk, but when we are able to get him back near, you recognize, not even all the best way, get him back near somewhere between what he’s now and what he was once, 11.6 isn’t going to be crazy.’ Not with the cap increasing. Not with how thin the middle market is.
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And so I believe they’re re-evaluating that’s going, we don’t have our, a capability to get our hands on players like this fairly often. We must always try to make something occur. And that’s, that’s exactly what’s modified. And that’s what’s making the Canucks think, is that this value has exceeded, I believe, where they believed it was.”
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