The Petey Predicament

[Megaterio Llamas]

That meany Iain MacIntyre has been picking on Peter.

[306NucksFan]

My coworker, who is a diehard Oilers fan and hates the Canucks. In fact hates the city of Vancouver said that he’d take Peter in a minute. He says the system doesn’t suit his game at all.

Just interesting to hear a different perspective. Canucks fans do like to bitch about everything.

[Megaterio Llamas]

My coworker, who is a diehard Oilers fan and hates the Canucks. In fact hates the city of Vancouver said that he’d take Peter in a minute. He says the system doesn’t suit his game at all.

Just interesting to hear a different perspective. Canucks fans do like to bitch about everything.

The system doesn't suit him.

That explains why he is 135th in league scoring.

[BoS]

My coworker, who is a diehard Oilers fan and hates the Canucks. In fact hates the city of Vancouver said that he’d take Peter in a minute. He says the system doesn’t suit his game at all.

Just interesting to hear a different perspective. Canucks fans do like to bitch about everything.

The system doesn't suit him.

That explains why he is 135th in league scoring.

Not top 40 in scoring?

Not even in the top 116.

[Meds]

5-2 loss to the Ducks. Shots pretty even at 25-24 for Anaheim.

Pettersson.....0 SOG, 0 PTs, minus-2, 1HT, 2Blk.

Franchise level.

[Topper]

The strangest thing for me is that I'm starting to feel bad for Aqualung having to sign his paycheques.

[306NucksFan]

The strangest thing for me is that I'm starting to feel bad for Aqualung having to sign his paycheques.

I have tried to remain Bullish on Petey, but he really is Lui Erikson 2.0.

Just do your best in a trade I guess.

[Blob Mckenzie]

The strangest thing for me is that I'm starting to feel bad for Aqualung having to sign his paycheques.

I have tried to remain Bullish on Petey, but he really is Lui Erikson 2.0.

Just do your best in a trade I guess.

I agree to trade him if he doesn't snap out of it over the next 24 games ......+ ? Hell, if you get .70 on the dollar move him at the deadline.

[Lancer]

The strangest thing for me is that I'm starting to feel bad for Aqualung having to sign his paycheques.

I have tried to remain Bullish on Petey, but he really is Lui Erikson 2.0.

Just do your best in a trade I guess.

I agree to trade him if he doesn't snap out of it over the next 24 games ......+ ? Hell, if you get .70 on the dollar move him at the deadline.

I've given up on him turning it around at any point the rest of the way. That presents a conundrum for management: trade him for pennies on the dollar before his NMC comes into effect on July 1st and effectively reset the core, and risk him taking off with a new team; or keep him and hope he turns it around in the offseason, but risk him being a Huberdeau-esque boat-anchor on the roster.

I just hope they have as much knowledge under the hood (or between Petey's ears) as they can to make an informed decision, and don't succumb to the sunken cost fallacy here.

Some of the trade ideas being floated about by click-baiters involving Petey are absurd, but I don't think we would see anything near fair value for Petey at this time.

[Topper]

What is fair value on a third line center making $11.6M/yr for the next seven years?

[dangler]

What will the fallout entail if EP40% doesn't rebound by seasons end?
If he's still here and continues as he has and no one makes a couple of top 6 centers appear, does Quinn re-sign?
Does Rutherford stick around?

[Meds]

What will the fallout entail if EP40% doesn't rebound by seasons end?
If he's still here and continues as he has and no one makes a couple of top 6 centers appear, does Quinn re-sign?
Does Rutherford stick around?

Nobody on this team is going to want to play with this loser long term watching him cash $11.6M per year and sucking cap space that prevent roster improvement. Hughes is probably counting the days at this point.

[2Fingers]

In my decades of watching hockey I have never seen what has happened to EP this past year. Yes players can go up and down but not to this extent.

No doubt EP has the skill to be a PPG or better but he has lost all confidence. It can be a combination of injury and confidence. I still believe that he is better than his points shows right now but I’m not sure he will find it this year.

Maybe shutting it down and he gets healthy and meet with some “help” to get his mind in the right way. Or they trade him knowing it can bite the team in the ass long term as we zero in the pipeline at centre so this means they will have to trade a top prospect in a deal.

Regardless something needs to be done and get this off the radar.

[Megaterio Llamas]

[Ronning's Ghost]

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It's not enough to bury the franchise, but if current management can't find some way to extract value from Pettersson, it's enough to bury the de-facto rebuild of which he was a centrepiece.

The next six months will tell us a lot about the next six years.