The Petey Predicament

[Chef Boi RD]

Aqualini needs to lay down the hammer. He has 11.6 million reasons why. Enoughs enough

[Cousin Strawberry]

The Sedins in their time were fitness junkies, always showed up to camp as the fittest, year in, year out which is why I always laugh at the unfair “sisters” comments. Super disciplined and took pride in preparation. If I’m Aqualini, I sit everyone down in a room coaching to management and that includes Petey and the Sedins and I look Petey in the eye and say “listen you little fuck, this summer you are spending it with the Sedins!”

Petey will just say fuck you I'll be back in Sundsvall laying pipe(cleaner)

[Lancer]

The Sedins in their time were fitness junkies, always showed up to camp as the fittest, year in, year out which is why I always laugh at the unfair “sisters” comments. Super disciplined and took pride in preparation. If I’m Aqualini, I sit everyone down in a room coaching to management and that includes Petey and the Sedins and I look Petey in the eye and say “listen you little fuck, this summer you are spending it with the Sedins!”

Petey will just say fuck you I'll be back in Sundsvall laying pipe(cleaner)

At which point they trade him before the NMC kicks in - return be damned. If he's not committed, neither should management.

[Meds]

The Sedins in their time were fitness junkies, always showed up to camp as the fittest, year in, year out which is why I always laugh at the unfair “sisters” comments. Super disciplined and took pride in preparation. If I’m Aqualini, I sit everyone down in a room coaching to management and that includes Petey and the Sedins and I look Petey in the eye and say “listen you little fuck, this summer you are spending it with the Sedins!”

“The Sisters” was only in reference to their tuck tail nature in scrums. Daniel letting Marchand speed bag him cemented it.

[Chef Boi RD]

The Sedins in their time were fitness junkies, always showed up to camp as the fittest, year in, year out which is why I always laugh at the unfair “sisters” comments. Super disciplined and took pride in preparation. If I’m Aqualini, I sit everyone down in a room coaching to management and that includes Petey and the Sedins and I look Petey in the eye and say “listen you little fuck, this summer you are spending it with the Sedins!”

“The Sisters” was only in reference to their tuck tail nature in scrums. Daniel letting Marchand speed bag him cemented it.

So that is what is deemed as “toughness”?

How about having an off-season legendary workout program that would bring most men to tears. A number of Canucks from that era would hunker down with the Sedins in the off season to get in shape with them because of their commitment to their craft, “tough guy” Kassian included.

This city was spoiled by the the Sedins commitment to their fitness, coming to camp every year in absolute tip too shape. That to me is “toughness”. Throwing knuckles proves fuck all in hockey, that’s why the Sedins are Hall of Famers and Kassian isn’t.

Apparently Quinn Hughes is pretty committed to off season training. I’m at the point where if $11.6 million isn’t motivation enough you’re just a fucking prick then. Get rid of Petey, I’m at the point if we get a bucket of pucks to get rid of that contract that’s a win to me.

[Diehard1]

This situation is next to impossible to read without additional info - is he injured, and if so how badly? If he's not injured is he just not in shape? What's his motivation? Normally an elite athlete would spend all their time trying to prove everyone wrong if they had a second half and playoffs like Petey did last year, but given he's been worse this year that obviously was not the case.

If you have more info and he's just not a motivated guy then it's time to cut bait. I'd be leaning towards trading him if it were me, but hopefully management knows the whole story and can make a decision.

[Cornuck]

...but hopefully management knows the whole story and can make a decision.

And that's the key here, isn't it. They knew who they were signing to that contract, and obviously must know more than us - BUT - even they weren't expecting this fall off. If it's an injury, rest him. If it's in his head, work on that. If it's conditioning, work on that.

At this rate, it won't be long before the whole town is against him, and management will feel forced to move him.

We just can't have a normal season without ongoing drama, can we?

[Lancer]

And that's the key here, isn't it. They knew who they were signing to that contract, and obviously must know more than us - BUT - even they weren't expecting this fall off. If it's an injury, rest him. If it's in his head, work on that. If it's conditioning, work on that.

At this rate, it won't be long before the whole town is against him, and management will feel forced to move him.

We just can't have a normal season without ongoing drama, can we?

Hopefully management has a better grasp of what they have in Petey than Calgary's management had of Huberdeau before they signed him to that stupid contract. They bloody well should. Despite the Petey-Miller issue blowing up in their face when they seemed sure it was ironed-out, I'll give management some faith that they knew what they were doing when they signed Petey to that contract instead of trading him for the likes of Necas+.

It's that faith that has me not ready to drive the kid to the airport already. Shitty offseason and pressure to perform when he didn't prepare well enough can explain a lot of this. If he doesn't take off next season, though, it'll be too late. This is possibly the most important summer for this core - and the trade deadline is not even here.

This team is cursed.

[Chef Boi RD]

I don’t think he’s injured. He wouldn’t have been invited to play at Four Nations, he would’ve stayed home like Quinn had. I think it’s “heart” and “head”. Fitness is one thing but if you don’t have the heart and drive and self talk, fitness doesn’t have a hope in hell. He looks like a player who is phoning it in at the moment. Extremely immature.

[2Fingers]

I don’t think he’s injured. He wouldn’t have been invited to play at Four Nations, he would’ve stayed home like Quinn had. I think it’s “heart” and “head”. Fitness is one thing but if you don’t have the heart and drive and self talk, fitness doesn’t have a hope in hell. He looks like a player who is phoning it in at the moment. Extremely immature.

Agree RD, it’s all in his brain. He needs to be prepared at next years training camp if not then management needs to move on from him and get what they can. Of course that leaves a huge hole in the middle.

[Cornuck]

He needs to be prepared at next years training camp if not then management needs to move on from him and get what they can. Of course that leaves a huge hole in the middle.

By then it will be too late. Doesn't his nmc start on July 1?

[Topper]

He needed to be ready a year ago. This contract should never have been on the table.

[Chef Boi RD]

At the moment it’s shaping up to be the worst contract in Canuck history

[2Fingers]

He needs to be prepared at next years training camp if not then management needs to move on from him and get what they can. Of course that leaves a huge hole in the middle.

By then it will be too late. Doesn't his nmc start on July 1?

Yes you are right, I guess they need to see the commitment now or move him.

[Cousin Strawberry]

He needed to be ready a year ago. This contract should never have been on the table.

Nobody would ever have expected what would happen next though. He was absolutely lighting it the fuck up. His production trajectory was headed to the stratosphere (130+ pt pace) and there was no sign of an impending catastrophic collapse in his mental well being.

Then he found the little pink ribbon