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Okay seriously. It's understandable for other fan bases to begin undervaluing Pettersson because of all of these proposals, but you have to realize that the only reason why so many people are proposing Pettersson trades is that the team has no other tradeable asset whose departure would not hurt the offense or be replaceable.
There is no point in just giving him away for no reason. Assuming that Zucker and others are traded in order to free up enough cap space for returns, there would be absolutely no point in trading Pettersson. The team might as well keep him and trade him for a higher value in the off-season. They need to protect at least 3 defenseman anyways and without Pettersson to protect, it only leaves Dumoulin, Letang, and some other pointless protection.