Petey is like a top 5 center in the league, and he's only 25. Not to mention you can lock him up for 8 years. You can't see why it would take two of the players you mentioned?

Matthews, MacKinnon, McDavid, Hughes, Barkov, and Draisaitl are all better. He's like 7th or 8th. But it won't take two of the players it mentioned because 1) If he won't sign, the leverage isn't there and 2) it doesn't make sense for Carolina. Need two sides to make a trade. Canes need long term security and Svechnikov offers that. Half the team is expiring so having that certainty is huge. Jarvis is 21 and is just different. He's a 5'10 power forward scoring at a 65 point pace in his junior season. Plus, he can play center himself and is RFA, not UFA, which is big with the mass turnover coming this summer

The leverage is the 30 other teams that would all want to sign Pettersson; this offer gets beat easily. And that’s IF he’s even on the block which I find hard to believe.

“Need two sides to make a trade”

It doesn’t make sense for the Canucks if two of those top four guys aren’t included. They’ll get better offers elsewhere. If you aren’t willing to pay what it takes then the Canucks will go elsewhere

He’s also better than Barkov and arguably better than Hughes and Draisaitl

Okay let me ask you this... which team is...
1. Going to be acceptable to EP40 (Probably only contenders)
2. Have the assets to acquire him
3. Going to have the cap space to re-sign him

Carolina, Colorado and maybe New Jersey are the only teams that I can think of

He's not better than Barkov Hughes or Draisaitl. That's bias right there.

You're even more delusional if you still thin you're getting 2 of the Canes top 6 for him. He's very good, but everyone knowing he now wants out hurts Vancouver's ability to negotiate. Should have traded him last year when he had term if you wanted that sort of return

He's a 7-8 center and asking for Svech and Jarvis is going to go nowhere because the Hurricanes won't want to play ball. It's probably going to be a couple of roster pieces, a decent prospect, a first, and another pick.

Fair point, do cut the number in half…still 15 teams bidding for a 25 year old superstar. It will get competitive - feel like we went around this merry go round last year - you won’t get Petey without giving up an A++prospect or young player + picks . For the canes, imo that means Jarvis or Svechnikov or Nishkin + then add. Petey would be best player on the canes & won’t come cheap

I think the Hurricanes would be considered the front-runner to land EP40 if he got on the market considering their very apparent 2C need, their deep roster pipeline, them being a contender, and them having the cap space

It would probably be Necas+(Nadeau/Blake/Morrow)+2024 1st+2024 2nd+ 2024 2nd at a minimum. I think that Necas would fit the Canucks system better than Jarvis (Necas is probably a PPG player in a different system)

I have no dog in this fight but that would be nowhere near enough imo. Petey is younger & better than Aho; lots of teams could & would outbid that offer - the chance to trade for 25 year old true #1 C does not come along very often

He’s definitely better than Barkov at this point. Very close with Hughes and Draisaitl

Pettersson has put up 100 points, Hughes and Barkov have not. Pettersson is better defensively than Hughes and far better defensively than Draisaitl. He also doesn’t get to pad his points playing with McDavid like Draisaitl does

It's probably not enough but it feels like a good start

A lot of teams could outbid this but I don't see any true contender with a need for a top-6 center having the pipeline assets to compete with the Hurricanes

Hawks probably accept

Draisaitl's got 4 100 point seasons... He put up 128 last year. He's better than EP40. Pettersson put up 102 in 80 games, but Hughes had 99 in 78 games last year, a better PPG rate. EP40 is not as good as either player. You then go on to mention defense where Hughes is by far the best of the bunch, and while Drai isn't as good defensively as Pettersson, the gap in scoring makes up for it

Barkov's the best two-way centerman in the game. His ELITE defensive game with his traditional 90 point pace puts him above EP40 for me. Pettersson is closer to Crosby, Aho, and the tier below than Hughes and the tier above

Sold. Hawks would be very happy w/that trade.
BTW. Nucks fans are insane about EP.