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Canucks Refusing Low-Ball Offers on Miller, Pettersson Trade
The Vancouver Canucks are looking to trade Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller, but they won’t take low-ball offers to do it.
When TSN’s Gino Reda asked NHL insider Darren Dreger if the Vancouver Canucks were willing to take a low-ball offer to trade one of J.T. Miller or Elias Pettersson, Dreger shut that talk down. Saying, “Yeah, not interested in a low-ball offer, it has to be respectable.”
Canucks Might Lose Trade, But Won’t Get Fleeced on Offers
He added:
“You’re talking about two star-quality players here in J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson. You know this ongoing scenario of trying to trade both those guys, or one of those men, has been ongoing for the last couple of months. [Jim] Rutherford talked about the meetings that they’ve had with management, with the coaching staff, with Miller and Pettersson to try and mend a fence, to get these two guys to work and operate in the confines of the team but somewhat on the same page, but haven’t ended up in any form of resolution, which means, now you get to the place where, ya, they’re trying to expedite a trade.”
Still, with the desperate need to one of these players out, it has to be a respectable return, especially for J.T. Miller.
Canucks Willing to Carry Miller Trade Into the Summer
Dreger knows that Miller has a no-move clause and it would be easy for them to crater under the pressure of trying to make a move when he has total control. If the Canucks have to wait until the offseason to do this trade, they will.
“No fire sale in Vancouver,” Dreger ended with.
There’s a chance that both players could be traded. Might Pettersson be dealt before the deadline and Miller in the summer? It almost seems as though Rutherford going public hints that he’s ready to wash his hands of both players.
It’s quite the story that these two players dislike each other so much that the organization has finally accepted that they can’t coexist. TSN’s Mike Johnson doesn’t think two trades is likely, but he also didn’t think the Canucks hurt their bargaining position by going public because teams have already asked the questions and the Canucks have filled in GMs who might be inquiring.
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