Major Roadblock Emerges for the Vancouver Cancucks and Elias Pettersson
The Vancouver Canucks are off to an incredible start in 2023-24, and with their star studded roster, it appears they may be in for a very deep run in the playoffs this season.
Elias Pettersson not ready to talk about an extension?
It's no secret that forward Elias Pettersson is one of, if not the teams biggest star, but unfortunately for Canucks fans, he has been unwilling to commit to the team long-term thus far.
The latest update from Elliotte Friedman on the 32 Thoughts podcast has revealed that nothing has changed, putting the situation in the most straight forward terms as possible.
Vancouver to let their big star walk in free agency?
This past summer, the update we saw was that the team wanted to re-sign him, but he wanted to win, and after the red-hot start that has them sitting in first place in the Pacific Division, the assumption would have been that things would have changed.
Unfortunately, Friedman doesn't have an answer yet for why Pettersson isn't ready for the conversation, but with the team's core all healthy and rolling, perhaps if they can make a deep run in the playoffs things will change very quickly.
| POLL | ||
JANVIER 8 | 169 ANSWERS Major Roadblock Emerges for the Vancouver Cancucks and Elias Pettersson Will Pettersson re-sign in Vancouver or walk as a free agent? | ||
| Re-sign | 89 | 52.7 % |
| Walk in FA | 80 | 47.3 % |
| LIST OF POLLS | ||
| G | A | PTS | ||
| Zachary Werenski | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Sean Monahan | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Jesper Bratt | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Frederick Gaudreau | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Jack Hughes | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Nikita Kucherov | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Mackenzie Weegar | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Kent Johnson | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Alexander Wennberg | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Mitchell Chaffee | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Anthony Cirelli | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Matthew Coronato | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Marcus Foligno | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Nick Foligno | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Conor Geekie | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Brandon Hagel | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Stefan Noesen | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Corey Perry | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Igor Sharangovich | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Dmitry Voronkov | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Complete stats | ||||
| STANDINGS 2024-2025 | ||||||
TOP 10 | GP | W | L | OL | PTS | |
Jets | 19 | 16 | 3 | - | 32 | |
Wild | 19 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 29 | |
Hurricanes | 19 | 14 | 5 | - | 28 | |
Devils | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 28 | |
Capitals | 19 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 27 | |
Golden Knights | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 26 | |
Maple Leafs | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 26 | |
Rangers | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 25 | |
Panthers | 20 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 25 | |
Flames | 20 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 25 | |
| Conference | Cumulative | ||||||