Donnie & Dhali: Elliotte Friedman, when asked if he expects the Vancouver Canucks to trade Elias Pettersson this offseason.
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Rick Dhaliwal: “You guys had Mitch Marner. You went through the entire thing. Vancouver’s got Elias Pettersson; it never ends. Do you see a scenario this summer where he gets traded?”
Friedman: “You recognize, I’ve been on two shows today. I got the Pettersson query on each of them.”
Dhaliwal: “Yeah, you’ve got to.”
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Friedman: “Yeah. You recognize, I believe that. I believe the really big challenge with that Rick, is that, I believe the really big challenge there may be that the Canucks don’t need to take money.”
Dhaliwal: “Yes. Exactly.”
Friedman: “And, they usually were asked again about it this 12 months, they usually said no. And, you realize, straight away is values down.
So, you realize, I’m not convinced that the offers that they were getting on Pettersson now. Or so far as they went, I don’t know that anything really got too far down the road. But so far as it went, I don’t think they’d be getting the identical offers now on Pettersson that they perhaps would have a 12 months ago or in the beginning of the 12 months.
I even have little question that when the season’s over, they’ll sit down, they’ll talk over with them again. They’ll see where it’s. However the honest, best answer, Rick might simply be, have an ideal summer, come back. And I mean, if, if everybody really wants to maneuver on, the very best option to do it’s for Pettersson to return back, play great. And so they go that way, right?
Because I just heard the one thing I did here is that even some teams that like Pettersson, their offers may not have been as strong because he just hasn’t played well.”
Don Taylor: “You recognize, the issue with that Elliotte is that, you realize, from all reports, that they had that conversation last summer.”
Dhaliwal: “Yeah, we went through this last 12 months.”
Friedman: “You recognize, but, you realize, I understand that Don. Appear to be I’ve been in situations before where I’m not 100% pleased, where I’ve worked and or I wasn’t pleased with my situation at work. And you realize, you’ve got two selections. You possibly can sort of coast through life like that, or you’ll be able to say, I’m going to do what I can to make it higher.
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And, you realize, I just think that when you’re the Canucks, you’ve got, you’ve got two selections straight away: you’ll be able to attempt to trade them at whatever percentage on the dollar, or you’ll be able to say, if we actually intend to make this higher, you’ve got to do this too.”
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