04 May 2026 01:36:38
So I posted this one earlier today in response to an on going conversation with a counterpart on here. Just wanted to revisit it for everyone.

Tor: Petterson

Van: Reilly Robertson and pick and or prospect

I’d offer up our 1st from the Roy trade. A pick from Colorado might as well be a second round pick anyway.
For a closer or possible retention by Vancouver.

1.) 04 May 2026
04 May 2026 01:23:41
Pettersson?
⚓️

2.) 04 May 2026
04 May 2026 01:27:09
Yup him.

3.) 04 May 2026
04 May 2026 12:26:34
That’s a trade that would never fly because both teams want to unload horrible contracts and both teams would each say “No we want more in return”. Canucks would say the package is too small for a guy who scored a hundred points. Leafs would say we want a top level prospect off your roster in case Pettersson never rebounds and we are saddled with that massive contract.

It would keep going like that. The only way a trade like that gets done is if you have a 3rd team with cap space ready to take on a chunk of Pettersson's salary. Similar to how Colorado, Carolina and Chicago did the Rantanen deal. But in that case Rantanen only had one year left. Pettersson has multiple years.

Not to mention…. Do we need another horrible defensive forward?

4.) 04 May 2026
04 May 2026 14:27:43
Ok, but hear me out. Reilly makes 7.5. I think Robertson's ask will be somewhere around Domi’s contract, 3-3.5, so the money is kind of a wash. Mo is still a pretty good player, not exactly a dump, plus hometown maybe the only place he move to. Would I take on a crappy defensive forward to move Mo, who didn’t really have the best year on either side of the puck? Absolutely, and we need a 2c which will cost around 7 realistically. I think Pettersson just isn’t interested in playing in Vancouver and doesn’t have much support around him.

You don’t just lose talent or skill, there’s something more to it. I believe he would return to form here makes the Marner trade sting a little less. We’re not giving up elite players and won’t find a 2c without giving up assets we don’t want to. If we need a third team involved, it would have to be for Hildeby to retain. I'd rather it be Stolarz, but no one will pay 6.5 to retain 2 million for us.

5.) 04 May 2026
04 May 2026 14:31:54
Dare I say I’d add our 1st round pick for this.

6.) 04 May 2026
04 May 2026 15:50:58
I don’t think Vancouver gets a better offer without retaining and the Leafs won’t find a 2C without losing Cowan or Knies. This is almost a must do from my perspective.

7.) 04 May 2026
04 May 2026 15:57:41
Well, the numbers still don’t work. On the surface, the way you describe it they do. However, you said Reilly is still a pretty good player. Well, you need to now spend money to replace his roughly 40 points a year from the back end. So now the numbers don’t match and say we don’t get a 1st this year.

Even though it’s a late first you would be giving away the only one we would have until 2029.

To sum up on Petterson, if his crappy play is because he doesn’t want to be there, then I don’t want him. If players do that they do it again elsewhere. Bad attitude is like a leopard changing its spots. Neither changes.

8.) 04 May 2026
04 May 2026 16:13:34
Yes, he does need replacement. We have 22 million to do that, and Vancouver was a soap opera and he is surrounded by a team with little talent.

9.) 04 May 2026
04 May 2026 16:19:19
It’s worth the gamble for me and Reilly can take his 40 points and minus 22 with him.

10.) 04 May 2026
04 May 2026 16:59:10
Gamble away. I would rather trade Reilly straight up for a very good prospect and cap saving that to bring in a $11.6 million player that was 7 on his team in goals 2 years ago and tied for 5th in goals this year. Yes he is more of an assist guy but come on.

3 years of over 30 goals and now he is a 15 goal scorer and 50 points two years in a row. Sorry buddy. He is one player you will not convince me to take. No need to keep trying to convince me. On to the next trade suggestion.

11.) 04 May 2026
04 May 2026 17:27:36
Yup. Keep suffering my good man

12.) 04 May 2026
04 May 2026 17:29:07
Yup keep suffering buddy

13.) 04 May 2026
04 May 2026 21:26:18
You must have hair like the lead singer from Flock of Seagulls lol.