TSN: The Vancouver Canucks are keen to start out contract extension talks with pending RFA Elias Pettersson, and Pettersson’s agent are glad to start out when Pettersson’s prepared, however he doesn’t need the distraction proper now in keeping with Darren Dreger.
“Maybe that adjustments, but it surely’s necessary to notice that he’s a restricted free agent on the finish of the 12 months. So there’s time. There’s no elevated sense of urgency right here. There is no such thing as a query that he’ll meet with the CAA reps throughout the All-Star festivities in Toronto. Perhaps that bumps it just a little bit, but it surely’s within the arms of Elias Pettersson.”
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The Vancouver Canucks are snug with ready
Sportsnet 650: Vancouver Canucks president Jim Rutherford on the Elias Pettersson contract state of affairs has any impact on what they do going ahead, and in the event that they’re snug ready till the offseason.
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Host: “Does the uncertainty on Elias Petterson’s subsequent contract, does that have an effect on your means to do enterprise on the deadline, in any respect?
Rutherford: “No, it doesn’t have any impact you already know. If we didn’t have management over this participant for one more season, we could have a look at it just a little bit totally different. However we don’t have anyone will get anxious right here.
, I’ll say what I’ve mentioned a number of occasions, the apparent, that we actually need to maintain Petey right here and we’ll see how that performs out when the time is correct.
Host: “He’s repeatedly mentioned that you already know, the offseason, he wish to wait till the top of the season to actually get one thing performed. Are you guys snug ready to the offseason to hammer one thing out?
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Rutherford: “Yeah, I feel so. We, the best way the crew’s going, I don’t consider that is the appropriate time to upset the apple cart and a few large, large commerce. So we do have the posh of ready.
