This Somehow Got Even CRAZIER...

It somehow got even crazier as the Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Pettersson has been reportedly made available by the Canucks heading into trade deadline and it's going as far as reporters linking them in a possible trade for Mikko Rantanen. We got a lot to break down in this episode. You're not going to want to miss it. But before we get into that, if you're enjoying this content and you don't want to miss another episode, make sure to go down and hit that subscribe button. It's completely free and we'll keep you up to date on everything to do around the Canucks with that we can hop straight into this today with NHL trade deadline just under 24 hours away we do get reports from Cam Robinson of the Elite Prospects which I will link down in the description if you want to read the full article but he does say I'm hearing that Vancouver is once again listening on Elias Pettersson ahead of tomorrow's deadline now we know the Canucks took Elias Pettersson off their trade sheets going into the season after they traded JT Miller in the latter half of the season i should say but reports are saying now that they are listening to trade offers on Petey now looking at this he continues on in this saying the club had hoped that moving JT Miller to New York a few weeks ago would have cleared everything up they need to straight the dressing room drama to have a chance at salvaging the season hope was it was about to also free Pettersson up to start playing like his old superstar self up until this point that has not been the case but teams keep calling in previous days and weeks the club had told them they're holding on to Pettersson for now and waiting to see things went with Miller gone however it appears they're open to actively listen to if there's a rich enough offer return make it worthwhile now this is insane to see as it says pretty much in this and you can pause and read it again if you want Pettersson is made available by the Canucks heading into the deadline now looking at Petey yes Petey was once a former star on this team, and I say once because he is severely struggling recently. You can see in 22, 23, 102 points, he had 12 goals, 63 assists. He had an incredible first playoffs with the Canucks in 2019-20, putting up 18 points in 17 games, but he has been severely disappointing in this season with the Canucks. There's reports that he's dealing with injuries, moving JT Miller was supposed to fix things, but it does seem like the Canucks and Pettersson's leash is getting a lot shorter now looking at Petey we know he's in year one of eight on his 11.6 million dollar contract which does cause a lot of problems as year one he is starting to struggle this is a player going into July 1st once July 1st hits you can see on the second column there a no movement clause that does kick in if Petey is traded between now and July 1st when that second part of the contract year two of the contract does kick in he will not be able to be moved unless he approves of the trade this stretches from year two all the way to year eight so it's going to get interesting on if the Canucks want to go out and move Petey ahead of this as they don't want to take the risk of holding on to him maybe he doesn't turn things around doesn't get back to his former self whatever reason may be and then you're stuck with the contract of 11.6 for the remaining seven years on the deal now looking at the contract itself it's going to be hard to move but we do get reports from Cam Robinson of Elite Prospects once again as i said it's going to be down in the description several team-sided people without any skin in the game have wondered out loud to me whether the Canucks would dangle Pettersson to Carolina in hopes of bringing Mikko Rantanen into the fold that would be surely make a skipping work slash school for the deadline day worthwhile now you can take this quote in whatever way you want but Cam Robinson just going out to name Mikko Rantanen and with all the rumors flying around on Miko Rantanen I mean from Pierre LeBrun himself earlier today probably as expected but the league sources confirmed that Carolina has received clarity from Miko Rantanen's camp as far as not being ready to make a decision on the team's contract offer by Friday's trade deadline hence Carolina talking the teams and seeing for what seeing for real what the trade market is for him it comes down to weighing best trade offers on the table versus keeping Rantanen as a rental let's see how it goes so the big thing is Carolina did acquire Miko Rantanen we know the issue with Miko Rantanen is he is a UFA but if the Canucks are making Elias Pettersson a availability we already know Carolina was in on him but went the route of Miko Rantanen when they tried to marry Naitchas and more from Colorado to acquire him if they wanted to circle back and want to acquire Miko Rantanen maybe Carolina will be more intrigued by a long-term contract someone that's locked up for eight years compared to a UFA that they might lose in free agency for absolutely nothing which would be disastrous for the team now looking at the fact that Miko Rantanen's camp wants to wait past deadline it does make it hard for the Canucks to justify trading a contract that's locked up for eight years for someone that's going to be a UFA now Miko Rantanen has been incredible in the NHL you can pause you can look through it but i mean starting back from 22 23 55 goals 42 goals in 49 games this year, 25 goals with the Colorado Avalanche. You can see he's a playoff performer over a point per game in every single playoffs that he's pretty much played during his entire career, including winning the Stanley Cup, a 6'4", 28-year-old big body forward that was drafted 10th overall. Mikko Rantanen on this Canucks team would be outstanding. This would be a piece that would really push them over the edge if you're not moving on from Elias Pettersson in this deal looking at Rantanen's contract 9.25 million you're not acquiring this full thing so he does fit under the cap i believe it'd be about 2 million under the cap as we did see the Chicago Blackhawks retaining half of it when he went from Colorado to the uh to Carolina so if they do acquire him it's going to be a lot smaller of a cap hit plus with the games played it's going to be very small and around 2 million so they can still make moves but it does get scary fitting him in this lineup and especially once you kind of break down the fact if Petey is gone from this top line and you don't acquire another center in this deal you do come down the middle with Heidle Suter who does seem to be on the block and going to be moved Teddy Blueger and then someone from Abbotsford Amon could be an option but looking at the center depth it does get a little shaky the wings do look good Besser is a guy that's projected to be moved on from the Canucks as well So picture this lineup without Pettersson, without Besser, the possibility of Rantanen walking for nothing. Listen, I know a lot of the fan base is very much on two sides when it does come to Petey. A player that was once a franchise player in the Canucks, putting up nearly 40 goals, having Selke votes, 102 points, going into last year, having a bit of a down year, but still having 89 points in 82 games, just to follow up with under a point per game 55 games 11 goals 24 points assists 435 points what are your guys thoughts on this on the fact that once again the Canucks are making it available for teams to call and acquire on Elias Pettersson maybe he gets moved for it tomorrow I hope it's not for Mikko Rantanen unless there is a contract in place but even then the center depth would be terrible that's the best way to put it but what are you guys thoughts would you move on from EP what would you like would it be Mikko Rantanen or another package I know Dylan Cousins is a name that a lot of people like go down and leave a comment below while you're down there leave a like subscribe share this with your friends we'll be back with another episode trade deadlines can be crazy tomorrow so you're not going to want to miss out on that but that'd be it for this episode I've been your host Mark Pye and take care