Petey is essentially confirmed at this point to re-sign in Vancouver over the next few days.

Nice. For what contract?

I assume it's going to be the 8x12.5 that was offered to him as of recently

Yeah it's interesting because a lot of the reporting basically was that the money is on the table but Petey was pretty meh about it. Not having to do with term/$$, but more about being stuck in Vancouver. Which I get. But hopefully for their sake, they can get it done.

There was nothing about him not wanting to be in Vancouver. The only reason he didn't sign in the offseason was because he wanted to be on a good team. With the team having a great year he was always gonna sign at some point. He just didn't wanna have to deal with the negotiations during the season but with the noise getting more distracting he just wants to get this over with at this point. What is a bit of a surprise is that he's willing to sign for 8 years I was pretty convinced he was gonna go the Matthews route and sign for 3-5 years.

Problem for Petey wasn't being stuck in Vancouver, there were never reports that he didn't want to be here. Reports were that he wanted to play for a winning team, hence he didn't want to sign an extension at that point since in the offseason, the Canucks didn't look poised to be a winning team based on them being a lottery team the two years prior. No one expected the Canucks to come out and be the 1st place team in the league coming up to the TDL, but now they are and they are clearly a team that is winning and ready to compete. Petey also said he didn't want to talk extension during the season as he wanted to focus purely on hockey and didn't want the distractions of contract talks (he also did the same thing the last time he was an RFA, didn't begin negotiations until after the season ended and offseason began). Now he knows the team is a winning team and ready to compete, hence why he'd have the change of mind to want to work out an extension in season. It was also just reported by Friedman that the other big reason for his change of heart is that he knows teams have been calling the Canucks on him, and the Canucks had also engaged in talks with the Canes involving Petey. The following are Friedman's exact words on the situation on his latest appearance on the Jeff Marek Show.

"According to multiple sources, the Vancouver Canucks and Carolina Hurricanes had discussions about Elias Pettersson that advanced to a stage where both the Canucks and the player needed to make serious decisions about where their relationship was headed. The Canucks ultimately decided in favour of another attempt at extending Pettersson, and he, facing the possibility Vancouver could move him, allowed agents Pat Brisson and JP Barry to resume negotiations. Previously, the talented forward indicated he preferred to wait until after the season."

That Minnesota trade is a dumpster fire.

Minnesota doesn't have the cap room (this year or beyond), first of all. Second, Guerin has only traded a single 2nd round pick and it was in a year we had 3. He has yet to trade a single 1st, let alone 2 in the same trade. I don't see any reason he does it in a year we're not making the playoffs for a player that doesn't align with our competitive window (that is not at all open right now). Third, we have plenty of center depth when Yurov comes over in the next 12 months or so with him, Eriksson Ek, and Rossi. Fourth, Hartman just signed an extension with a full NMC and likely shuts this down immediately. For all those reasons, I see no chance of this deal happening.