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The Vancouver Canucks have learned how much salary they’ll need to retain in order to trade Swedish forward Elias Pettersson before the NHL’s deadline on March 6th.
With Kiefer Sherwood now out of the picture, the spotlight in Vancouver on the trade front has turned to some of their big names, including Elias Pettersson, who was reportedly made available by the club earlier this month.
Obviously, every club in the National Hockey League has untouchables, but management of the Vancouver Canucks is now using the rebuild word, so they have to be open for business, open for just about anything, and that might include finally trading Elias Pettersson. Now, we know that there’s been a ton of speculation from a media perspective on Pettersson’s future with the Vancouver Canucks. That was more into the off-season, more last season than to this point.” TSN’s Darren Dreger said.
Given Elias Pettersson’s high salary of $11.6 million for each of the next six seasons beyond the 2025-26 campaign, trading him will not be easy, nor is it a guarantee at this point, but he has been linked to some teams, including the Carolina Hurricanes and Utah Mammoth, both of whom are hoping to make a big splash ahead of the deadline.
Vancouver Canucks learn how much salary they’ll have to retain to trade Elias Pettersson
In order to trade Elias Pettersson, if he’s willing to waive his no-movement clause, the Vancouver Canucks may have to retain some salary, which isn’t ideal given how much term is left on his contract.
The Canucks can make it work though, with two retention spots still available and the league’s salary cap expected to rise by quite a lot in the years to come and on Friday’s edition of Halford and Brough, Rick Dhaliwal shared how much money Patrik Allvin may have to retain to part with the Sundsvall, Sweden native.
According to Rick Dhaliwal, after speaking with an unnamed team, he found out that they would need the Vancouver Canucks to retain at least $3 million – 25 percent of Pettersson’s annual salary – to get a deal done.
Retaining 25 percent, while not ideal, wouldn’t be a bad thing for the Vancouver Canucks as in a few years, that $3 million will be miniscule when compared to the league’s salary cap and if they are willing to go down that route, they could get a decent return for the 27-year-old, again, if he’s comfortable waiving his NMC.
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