NHL Insider Elliotte Comments on if the Vancouver Canucks will trade either J.T. Miller or Elias Pettersson
Elliotte Friedman stated that he does not think that Vancouver Canucks will trade wither of the star forwards.
«And I believe this. I believe this first and foremost, that the con, the Canucks publicly and the Canucks privately. Because, you know, when Miller took his break, I think there were teams that called the Canucks and said, 'You know, when he comes back, is is he going to stay at Canuck?» and I think the the Canucks basically said, like, we're not, we don't want to trade this guy.
And I think that with Pettersson, their, their choice, we all know now, last year that they could have traded him, and they didn't. And they gave him a lot of money. And so that says to me, by action, that the Vancouver Canucks believe they are a better team with both of those players. They are both on Four Nations rosters. They are both excellent players.
It is very hard to win a trade with either one of them, and I think the Canucks, their preference is to keep them both and try to win with them both. And last year, they showed that when everybody was pulling in the same direction, they were a formidable team. It took the Oilers, who went to game seven of the Stanley Cup Final, every ounce of their power to beat Vancouver in the second round.