Sportsnet: Frank Seravalli on the Halford and Brough present on Sportsnet 650 on if the Vancouver Canucks might be trying to commerce ahead Elias Pettersson and if there are groups that will have an interest?
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Halford: “What do you assume they’ll do with Elias Pettersson?
Seravalli: “I imply, I believe listening to that press convention, if there was any considered going into it saying, ‘Hey, that is our man. We’re going to work with him, and we’re going to repair this, and we’re not entertaining any commerce talks, and we’re locking him in as our as our future primary middle for the subsequent seven years.’ I imply that that went out the window fairly rapidly.
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And I believe what it signaled is that they’ve an openness and a willingness to maneuver on in the event that they get the appropriate deal. And I believe proper deal is the right caveat, as a result of I don’t know what the appropriate deal of their thoughts appears to be like like. Possibly it’s simply shifting off of the contract and valuing the area and never the chance. There’s a whole lot of other ways to view it.
Rick Dhaliwal: Pettersson’s agent JP Barry on the potential for an offseason commerce: “Probably not shocked, it’s a enterprise however Elias is planning an enormous low season, he’s tremendous decided to have a terrific season subsequent 12 months.”
Halford: “Do you assume there are groups on the market that will tackle the contract and tackle the chance of Elias Pettersson remaining the participant that he has been for the final 12 months and a half? Or do you assume there are some groups on the market that will say, ‘Man, we’ve received the potential to get a 100-point participant for not a lot?’”
Seravalli: “Yeah, I do assume that there’s some groups on the market which are curious for positive. That they see how extremely troublesome it’s to seek out distinction makers, and see that at one time limit, though not not too long ago, that this participant was one. And that the contract pays him appropriately for that degree, however hasn’t gotten there shortly, and possibly they assume that they’ll unearth it or unlock it once more by getting them into a brand new setting, new surroundings, and take no matter shackles are on Patterson in Vancouver, off.
Once more, what does the appropriate deal appear like of their eyes? How a lot worth are they making an attempt to get? Or the place do they understand the worth to be? I don’t have the reply to these questions, however they clearly, like, they didn’t sugar coat in any respect what they consider and the place his sport is at at this second in time, from quite a few totally different standpoints.
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From you know the way exhausting it’s going to be to get that again, to the, to the professionalism and coaching that’s required. Like we’re speaking about actually elementary, floor degree issues. Like givens, that ought to be for any NHL participant, not, not only a, you realize, celebrity or, or at one time limit budding celebrity. Like these are non-negotiables, and the truth that the, no less than within the staff’s eyes, that these should not being met. That’s that’s vastly problematic.
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