revoke his contract until he scores... he will get 15 goals immediately. why try now? He already got paid! Greedy Petey isn't worth $5 million, yet alone close to $12 million

In the last game when Canucks finally put some pressure in the first half Petey started to look like his old self, Yes, he didn't do much, but he was in phase for once.

The smart move is to ship him out next season. It's the only window we have before his NMC kicks in. Punt him to Utah who are hungry for a "star" player. Hell I'd take Schmaltz, Derzi, and a pick.

he wont

Id have hoglander on the third line instead of mikheyev, mikheyev cant score to save his life

@@barnabykocsis6987he’s also better at shutting sown

He WAS a difference maker. Hasn't been effective since the all-star break. People still contemplate that he may have a hidden injury.

Greedy Petey stopped trying the moment he forced the terrible contract extension

@@Matt-nj1yh yepp

The Louis Ericsson contract

@@randomeander6524 oh, this one has the potential to be much, much worse - time will tell

Well he got an assist on it anyway.

@@jasonaltig985 crazy game

I've thought this for a month or so. He his not skating or moving like he used to and looks tentative.

he would have sat game 82. Stop with that narrative

Utter bullshit. Narrative has been pushed by homers for YEARS. An injured player doesn't average 80+ games for the past 3 seasons.

@@Xyy2387 I mean, I agree with you, but why was he so good in the 2020 playoffs? He was a legit game changer. I don't get it.

@jasonjansen9831 He had time and space. When he didn't, he created it with his skating and shiftiness. He wanted the puck on his stick, and when he had it, he got the shot off quickly and accurately. These are all hallmarks of his game when he's ON. I would not put too much weight on his bubble playoff performance or even his playoff heroics with Vaxjo. Totally different beast.

Doesn’t inexcuse his play overall on the PP if he was just elite on the PP we win a lot more games

He sucks on the power play. He sucked for the first half 2 years ago. He's just the mentally weakest player in the NHL. He's pathetic. He's a pure loser.

It would be amazing if fans could look at the team objectively. Give the team credit for keeping pace with an opponent that scores less and gives up more goals? Being outshot 2 to 1? You do realize we had no business winning both road games right? You do also realize it took a recond setting 2 goals in 12 seconds to eeked out a win in game 1? Like it or not, this series could already been over in favor of Nashville. In actually we should've had this wrapped up by game 5. There's one GLARING reason why it's this close.

@@Xyy2387They absolutely deserved to win game 3. Oilers scrape out a 1-0 win with 13 shots and its so gutsy and gritty and totally evidence that they are gonna win the cup. Canucks win a 2-1 game with 12 shots and they get shit on. and game 4, they deserved to win because they capitalized on their chances. Nashville imploded.

@@AnthM33 Why are you bringing up the Edmonton game. No one gives a shit that Skinner bailed them out. As for game 3, come on man. It was the total reversal of game 2. Both winning teams for those games stole one. That's not even debatable. We gave up almost 60 shots, 30 got through vs our 12. We were dominated in the dot and out hit. The difference was special teams. We've scored 2 PP goals this entire series, both in game 3. As for game 4, seriously? We were dogshit for 57 minutes. Forget about the result for a second and look at the process. It was by far our worst game in this series. You re-run the last 3 minutes 10 times, we lose 9 of them. What transpired happens once in a blue moon. I'm not saying it was a fluke but it's highly improbable.

@@Xyy2387 the oilers are frauds. Get outshot. Frauds. Also 2 to 1? The Preds have 28 more shots in 5 games. That’s less than 6 per game more. The Preds have the second fewest shots in the playoffs. Canucks still have the edge in shot attempts. This notion that the Canucks are getting lucky and just barely scraping by while getting outplayed is absurd. It’s just not happening. It’s a close series. If they had Demko and/or any ability to finish then it would probably be over already. Canucks own 55% of the high danger chances too.

​@@Xyy2387 They have been easily the better team and if you disagree it's because you're a moron or a hater or both.

It's worse than that my friend. 11.6m cap hit. 14.5m actual cash next season. 5th largest contract in the entire league. He eats up over 13% of available cap. It's nuts for a 2C.

Ergh vancouver no ​@@Xyy2387

@@Xyy2387 He is the 1C, just wait til he get going

@willeb7052 When exactly? 30 games ago would have be nice. Why do fans, his teammates, and the organization have to "wait" for a 1C superstar who is set to make top 5 money?

He didn't last year

Stupid narrative

I think Blueger should get another look again with Joshua and Garland. Lotto line: Miller Pettersson Boeser Höglander Lindholm Mikheyev Joshua Blueger Garland Podkolzin Suter Lafferty/Phil Di Giuseppe

He sucked for months before the playoffs. He's just a heartless selfish POS.

As someone who is critical of Petterson (not hate), I’ve never seen someone disappear for so long like him. I’ve never seen someone get so easily shaken like him. Sedins had their struggles but they were tough as hell, even if they weren’t putting up points it never looked like they were not present in the game or wildly in the negative.

No real fan hated the Sedins. Sure, they had their struggles, but at no point were they ever paid generational type money or underperformed their contracts. They signed their first extension at 25 for a cap percentage a hair over 8%. Their second extension for a cap percentage of 10.74%. Dollar cost averaged over those 8yrs was 5.12m or 9.5% cap. Tremendous value and ROI. Another thing worth mentioning is that they were leaders on and off the ice. Actual leaders, not some marketing ploy like we're seeing with Pettersson. There's value in that as well.

If the Sedins hadn't taken a fucking decade to figure it out maybe the WCE wins a cup. If the Sedins weren't shit playoff performers most of their careers maybe their era wins a cup. Bure had 6G 10P in his first playoff year. Pettersson actually did fine his first playoff year. He's also been MIA to an absolutely insane degree for months now. MONTHS. He has 1 goal in his last 18 games, 1 ES goal in his last 23. For a quarter of a season he's played like a 5G 40P forward. That's insane. That wouldn't be acceptable for a guy make 3 million a year.

@@AnthM33 What are you talking about 10yrs to figure it out? Hank won the Hart and Art Ross in year 9. Daniel followed with an Art Ross of his own plus the Lindsay in year 10. Are you insuating second line Sedins were the cause of the WCE not winning a cup? The same line that's 0.5ppg lifetime in the playoffs? We didn't win because we didn't have a fucking goaltender. And the year we should've steamrolled straight to the cup, the entire team choked.

Sedin sisters are soft like petey. That's what costed van a cup

i think we would make great friends 😂

Great points. Im tired of typing about him. Spreading some positive vibes cause Canucks may not get past Pred without him. Cmon Petey. Wake up!

Came here for this comment. I’m betting he turns out to be one of those star season performers but Playoff chokers. There are some players who would rather be on the golf course.

Being good about him doesn’t help my dude! I’m sure it’s hard for us as it is for him very different ways

Idk it kind of feels like he needs to build a lot more lower body strength

He's been playing in this league for 6 years if he hasn't learned how to condition himself then he's the lazy and dumb as a post.

That should only be the case if he's playing every night, stupid rationale

It will end when the loser finally leaves town, which cannot happen soon enough. They need to get out from under that contract. Worst contract in the league.

He's going to be paid nearly 200k CAD per game. That's 10k for every minute he's on the ice doing fuck all. And you're concerned about hurting his feelings? Fuck, no wonder this franchise hasn't won a goddamn thing ever.

@@Xyy2387 I'm not concerned at all. I'm just explaining the psychology behind it.

@@rrhev Fair enough. At the end of the day he needs to go. We can't win with mentally fragile streaky players. That's the problem with this market. They tend to be fans of individuals rather than the team.

@Xyy2387 I'm willing to give him a chance. EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE hated JT Miller last season. And look at JT now.

No, he needs to move his fucking feet and actually put in an effort instead of being the worst player on the ice every damn night.

Awesome. Let's pay the guy top 5 money. Regular season glory.

@@Xyy2387 lucky for Petey he negotiated before he ever played a playoff round.

@@deanstevenson1649 You trying to be cute? If management did exactly what Primadonna Petey wanted he'd be exposed for what he is.

It's his wrist.

Or he just sucks. He's just sucked for months on end before.

@@AnthM33 You have a short term memory. He's an elite player dealing with an injury that's robbing him of his ability to produce. People said the same about Brock until his wrist had 2 years to heal.

@@sjaan7370 People also insisted he must be injured when he turned to crap for half the season 2 years. Then he was just suddenly good and everyone forgot.

@@AnthM33 He is an extremely good player and even players of that caliber have highs and lows in their career, especially in the first few years entering the NHL. His wrist is injured, but we can come back to this post after the playoffs are over to confirm.

no you werent

I feel like they would actually make us (Canucks) better. In no way has Petterson been better than Marner this playoffs

@@720JC scary but true

That would suck so bad for both teams. This is what we're dealing with now LOL.

Exactly, he needs to eat in a surplus and lift barbells.

He isnt built for playoff hockey. Especially when another team tries to pick on him.

@Nickh4929 Correct. Couple that with constant "injuries" that are never confirmed or denied. Disappear for months at a time. Mentally and physically fragile. In the end, we have a streaky injury prone 2C, which we're paying generational talent money for. He's also not a kid anymore. Enough with the excuses.

He just signed a 12 million dollar contract and now he's done sucking up for it. He has no loyalty

@@Xyy2387 he IS a generational talent, but yeah he's got to produce to actually live up to it when it counts to be worth his contract. Definitely wouldn't say he's physically fragile, he's generally pretty healthy. Mentally I thought he was solid but this playoff series has me rethinking that one. The skill is clearly there, guy just needs better wingers and more than anything needs to get out of his own head.

@jshklt You sure? Is Brayden Point generational? How about Kyle Connor? Perhaps Marner or Nylander? Or Zybanejad, maybe Marchand? How about someone we're all very familiar with, Miller. Is he generational? I would say say no to every single one. All these players have out produced Petterson in the past 5 years. If he's not injured, why can't he skate or shoot anymore? Where did his shiftiness go? If he IS injured, why is he playing 80+ games for the past 3 seasons? His disappearing act isn't relegated to these playoffs. It happened before, and now it's a pattern. This is what he's giving us: 1 ES goal in his last 29 games. 0 ES points in this series. 0 primary points in this series. 1 primary ES point in his last 9 games. Unacceptable. These are emergency call-up numbers. He has played with plenty of quality forwards yet nothing has gelled for any prolonged length of time. In fact, he's been a factor in dragging these combos down. This begs the question, why can't he drive a line consistently? Why are we forced to prop him up? Remember, he's apparently "generational." Call a spade a spade. He's a talented yet streaky 2C with massive holes in his inner game. At 8m, he gets a longer leash. At top 5 in the league money, it's much much shorter. If you're getting paid to be THE MAN, then produce like one.