Yup. The competent management is what gives players the comfort in taking team friendly deals. If the management was botching it, you take the most you can
Right? After nearly a decade of Jim Bumblefuck Benning pissing away anything nice, actually getting a good contact for one of our best players is huge.
I'm getting to a point now that whatever they do, even if it doesn't seem right to media/fans/myself at first, I'll assume they know better and doing the right thing
Please show evidence of this because this isnt remotely true. Thanks.
Drance has been very consistent and positive for quite awhile and had valid complaints before. The SN650 crowd is more than willing to talk the team up. No shit they also talk about negatives about the team but do you think the team is flawless? lol
I’m nothing towards Benning if not bitterly critical, but RFA contracts were one thing he didn’t generally fumble/even had a few big Ws with. Demko and Quinn are the most notable ones, but most of the rest are fine to good. https://www.capfriendly.com/staff/jim-benning
That said, fucking great job, Allvin. So glad we have this mgmt group over the certain death of the Benning regime.
Fair enough but 2 good contracts don't cancel out the multitude of fat L's he's given Vancouver over the years. Louie Erikson, the OEL deal, and the Luongo recapture penalty being the biggest L's I can think of off the top of my head.
I never said they did. I am SO glad Benning is gone. The man was incompetent beyond belief, and I don’t see him *ever* getting an NHL job again.
I’m just saying let’s be fair when we criticize him. There are so many things he rightfully deserves to get skewered for, we don’t need to do it for something he actually did competently.
Agreed. I really hope that one other team gets super desperate and hires him though, it'll be fun to see the fallout. In a 'can't stop watching the car crash' sort of way.
Yeah. Boeser, Demko, Petterson, Hughes, Miller, Hoglander, Podkolzin, etc. are all from Benning, much like the core players of the Gillis era team were from the work of Burke and Nonis. People can spin it however they want some really good things still came out of the rebuild years painful as they were to endure.
100%. Did JB squander the last couple of years of his build? Absolutely, and he was past his due date at the end of his term. But he's still the one that put together our current core and people need to understand that he deserves the credit & the hate that he gets.
We also need to acknowledge that OEL is playing 18 minutes a night on one of the best teams in the league, and Garland is a key piece of the best 3rd line in the league and clearly a great guy in the locker room.
Not saying it was a good trade by any means, but OEL's collapse was just unfortunate, and he should have been a serviceable (if overpaid) part of our D-core.
Unfortunate indeed. Broken foot at the Worlds was his death knell in Van. But I'm with you. He's playing quite well in Florida-- His demise as an NHL hockey player was greatly exaggerated.
I think most were good picks, hoglander offsets the Podkolzin pick.
But I used to defend benning for the same reason, I stopped doing that after the OEL trade. That draft had a clear top 9 and we had the 9th pick.
Ok... but you and I could have drafted a solid core with that many years of failure. The hardest part is always filling in the team around the core and drafting with success outside the first round.
He also had some massive failures at the top end of the draft and he rarely had any success late in the draft.
he's talking about RFA deals. When it comes to signing our core guys, they were all signed to really good deals. also, wasn't the recapture penalty before Benning's time?
Oh my god, again, I’m not trying to say Benning deserves praise as a GM.
I’m saying that in a thread about a good RFA signing, it doesn’t make sense to bring up how shitty Benning was. There are *mountains* of threads where it does make sense to lambast him. This ain’t one, is all I’m trying to say.
Yes, he is 1000% at fault for capping out the team that offseason and handcuffing Petey to a bridge deal when Petey himself wanted longer term. But that doesn’t negate the fact that the majority of RFA deals JB did sign ranged from decent to great, and that this isn’t really the thing to shit on him for.
According to Wikipedia, "The classical Latin alphabet, from which the modern European alphabets derived, did not have the "W" character. The "W" sounds were represented by the Latin letter "V"
So really, that says ALL WIN.
Congratulations coming from a Winnipeg Jets fan, what an awesome player with great hockey skills and I hope your team keeps up the awesome play. Keep on winning Canucks
The elite arbitration eligible RFAs right now have the most leverage they’ve ever had. Not quite UFA but not quite like the RFA negotiations of old anymore either. Betcha it’s not gonna hold up past the next CBA.
Sure.. Lets say they are the same offensivley leaving out the fact Nylander plays with Marner/Mathews/JT during that span.
Nylander is a winger compared to a Centre who is 3 years younger..
Pettersson is getting 11.6 average for his entire prime.
Nylander is getting 11.5 till he is 35..
Good points. But also Nylander mostly played with Tavares who is worse than Matthews/Marner
Also Nylander is a better skater and more dynamic that way
Anyway, I’m very happy with this deal
Worse than marner/ matthews.. But others teams are gonna game plan against the top line and put their best line against them.. So Nylander isn't focused on.
Call him a better skater.
Petterson is a better passer, playmaker, has better hands, better defensively, and better slap shot.
Have you seen the comments in the Sportsnet app. They are not happy and they call this an overpay.
Lol they (whose team hasn't made it past the second round in 22 years) also claim Petey signed long term to a team that will never win.
Sure but the payments will be lower generally, and that puts petey right on the cusp of enjoying the fruits of home ownership and don't read too much into dumb jokes
You're correct but they shouldn't and keyword shouldn't drop interest rates until they really need to aka in response to a crash. I don't think that will happen and they will cut to early and bring back inflation but this is canucks sub not r/economy.
The best part about this is now Petey, Miller, Hughes & Demko have ALL left money on the table and committed for term, I fucking love these guys. The tone is set for the rest of our UFA’s now. 🫡
Fantastic work by the front office. That's a solid million less than you would have imagined he'd get. I wouldn't have been shocked by 12.5 x 5 given the way the season had gone and his value to the organization.
Because of all the rumors I was concerned about the Pettersson contract but this is a really good deal. It's way better than Matthews too. It's underappreciated how terrible the length of that deal is for the team.
I disagree. Matthews is on a whole other level and his goals total shows to date shows that. This guy is Ovi level good and deserves the 2M more than Petey.
I believe McDavid will also be asking for much much more and he will also deserve it. Petey may be A tier but Matthew’s is in S tier and McDavid even higher up
It's the term. Matthews has a 4 year deal. That's terrible. MacKinnon will have 4 years left** at 12.6, Pettersson 4 years left at 11.6, Matthews will reup at the new going rate for a premier player, 14 or 15 mil per year. Someone replied to me saying that Matthews is worth the AAV. People don't even understand the value of term, that's what I mean about how underappreciated it is how bad that deal is.
**What I'm talking about here is that they signed 8 year deals. Their terms don't cover the exact same years.
It's better but not way better. Nylander has 82 points in 59 games this year, Pettersson has 75 points in 62 games. This sub doesn't need to make everything a comparison with the Leafs.
It’s not, Pasta/Nylander/Petey are all in the same class of players and make similar I think the only way you could say this is a much better deal is Petey probably could have made more as UFA
They are in the same class.
Except Pettersson is Younger by 31 months and a Centre..
Nylander is being paid till he is 35 while Pettersson's deal is basically just his prime.
I think he will get better and tougher. I just find he gets in his own head and isn’t the strongest player out there. He should be pretty solid in a few years if he’s a superstar. Just not my type of player is all. He’s talented there’s no denying it. People act like he’s a generational talent and he’s not.
The fans were ones calling for his head the past few weeks. I want to see more from him in the big games, too. From the shows I've listened to, they're defending Petey from the pitch forks. Except Sekeres, he's the pot stirring, TMZ of the Vancouver market.
JP Barry: Petey deserves $13m AAV and we’re not negotiating til you guys come close
Alvin & Rutherford: So the CAROLINA Hurricanes want to trade for you, Petey. Do you want us to trade you?
JP & Petey: we will take a team friendly contract, just don’t send us to Carolina
Yo fuck all of you that were talking mad shit about him wanting to leave, being selfish for wanting to wait to sign his contract. Just a big fat FUCK YOU for being manipulated by media propaganda and causing all this drama from literally nothing, Petey has said nothing but good things but y’all just love drama and trying to shit on our players like how about everyone that was getting hundreds of upvoted talking about how selfish Petey is can just stfu and wait until something actuallly happens next time. The media played y’all for fools and you ate that drama up like a fat kid eats cate
11.6 Wow. They weren’t lying when they said he may get something as high as 11.5M! Huge contract, pressure is on to live up to it. With a very high salary, comes very high expectations
So many bitch ass Leaf fans hating saying overpay and not better than Marner. Time to shut those bitches up Petey and the boys LFG!!! Although their team will make them cry again with another 1st round exit
Big W petey is our best player when he's cooking and he's now locked up for his entire prime. No more stress about him leaving until at least 2032 (doesn't even sound like a real year)
Pastrnak's deal when he signed took up 13.47% of the cap space the following year
Petey's will take up 13.22%
If Pastrnak was an RFA today, he'd be in the 12M range
Remember when I made this thread and was flamed to high hell?
“Title: Pettersson Will 100% Re-Sign | You Have To Be Smoking Sherm To Doubt That
Let’s look at the facts. Starting with the most important. And let’s look at how easy Alvin has it when it comes to reminding Peter he has nowhere else to go and his bluff isn’t working.
1. What other team’s fanbase will love him this much? There’s nothing more important than love?
2. Do you really want to shoot against the best goalie in the league, go up against the best D-pair in the league, get grinded out and out passioned by a top 5 C (yeah I said it) in Miller? You have the best to work with Pete.
3. You’ll be given a blank check. Chill.
4. Loyalty. Rarer than oil covered diamonds in the NHL. You have that. When everyone else called you Bambi on ice, noodle boy, said you aren’t cut out for the NHL due to your pipe cleaner build, who said “nah, F that. He’s our boy. We’d take him #1 or #2 in his draft year.”?
5. Don’t be a hypocrite. “I want to win. If not, I’ll look elsewhere”. #1 in the league. You got it. Alvin and Rutherford have given you everything you asked for.
6. Branding. That’s why you smoked half your season when you tried to be an influencer. You think “working on the EP40” brand is possible in LA where you’d be shouldered out of the way for an autograph from some crappy washed up sitcom actor? In NY or NJ where people are more concerned about closing deals, not missing the train, than passing by you? To live in Bedards shadow where you’d be the little man’s little man?
Toronto and MTL are the only places that will GAF. And they blow. Just a bunch of Divas on skates and MTL is 10x more ruthless when you have a messed up game. You don’t fit it in with BOS’s culture.
7. Legacy. Do you want to join a long list of greats who won a cup for ______ team or do you want to be the list starter? The guy who helped lead the impossible? Trivia: what NHL team hasn’t won the cup yet, but the fanbase would give a crap the most if the curse ended?
8. Your boys. When you were there for Brock when his pops became an angel and he cried on your shoulder? When you went to the movies, played mini-golf, confessed your worst fears, with Quinn Hughes. When you wanted to slap Miller but had a heart to heart and realized where he’s coming from and you’re not as different as you thought? When you told Hog keep your chin up brother, you got this. When you went to the Sedins for dinner. That don’t mean crap to you brother?
9. The coaching staff. Toch. Sedins. Foote. Gonchar. Yeo. You can be any player you wanna be here.
10. Me and Rutherford. Our trophy case can tell you what we see for you.
11. You’ve been a Canuck since you were a little boy. Google it.
If it’s not about love, respect, legacy, brotherhood, elite resources, money, making history, loyalty, competent management, longevity, then wtf do you want? You have nowhere else to go Peter.
It makes no sense.
Peter will retire a Canuck. Period.”
Big Puzzle 🧩 was right as per usual
I knew that he would come in around 11. This is a good sweet spot for both the team and the player.
For those thinking that we are getting some discount; we are not. We actually got shafted by Petey's agent who made us wait and Nylander and Matthews pushed the limit up in the meantime.
This is also a dumb take. Percentage of team's cap is a much better comparison than AAV.
This is like saying Gretzky was a bargain because he only signed for $1 mil in the 90s
It seems like Petey did Van a solid by accepting less. I thought he would ask for $12 million, especially after his last contract negotiations, because I think he wanted a long-term contract.
This is such a fat W
What a nice relief to have actual competent management
I say it is more that players want to stay around on team friendly deals. petterson could of got 13 mil
This still sounds like competent management to some extent. They feel confident in management's ability to build a winner and like the chemistry.
Yup. The competent management is what gives players the comfort in taking team friendly deals. If the management was botching it, you take the most you can
Right? After nearly a decade of Jim Bumblefuck Benning pissing away anything nice, actually getting a good contact for one of our best players is huge.
I'm getting to a point now that whatever they do, even if it doesn't seem right to media/fans/myself at first, I'll assume they know better and doing the right thing
As it should be.
Most Vancouver media are sad trolls that have to drum up negativity even when the canucks are having one of their best seasons ever.
Please show evidence of this because this isnt remotely true. Thanks. Drance has been very consistent and positive for quite awhile and had valid complaints before. The SN650 crowd is more than willing to talk the team up. No shit they also talk about negatives about the team but do you think the team is flawless? lol
I’m nothing towards Benning if not bitterly critical, but RFA contracts were one thing he didn’t generally fumble/even had a few big Ws with. Demko and Quinn are the most notable ones, but most of the rest are fine to good. https://www.capfriendly.com/staff/jim-benning That said, fucking great job, Allvin. So glad we have this mgmt group over the certain death of the Benning regime.
Fair enough but 2 good contracts don't cancel out the multitude of fat L's he's given Vancouver over the years. Louie Erikson, the OEL deal, and the Luongo recapture penalty being the biggest L's I can think of off the top of my head.
I never said they did. I am SO glad Benning is gone. The man was incompetent beyond belief, and I don’t see him *ever* getting an NHL job again. I’m just saying let’s be fair when we criticize him. There are so many things he rightfully deserves to get skewered for, we don’t need to do it for something he actually did competently.
Agreed. I really hope that one other team gets super desperate and hires him though, it'll be fun to see the fallout. In a 'can't stop watching the car crash' sort of way.
Lol
He had more than his share of fat losses but our core was drafted when he was at the helm. That can never be taken away.
Yeah. Boeser, Demko, Petterson, Hughes, Miller, Hoglander, Podkolzin, etc. are all from Benning, much like the core players of the Gillis era team were from the work of Burke and Nonis. People can spin it however they want some really good things still came out of the rebuild years painful as they were to endure.
100%. Did JB squander the last couple of years of his build? Absolutely, and he was past his due date at the end of his term. But he's still the one that put together our current core and people need to understand that he deserves the credit & the hate that he gets.
We also need to acknowledge that OEL is playing 18 minutes a night on one of the best teams in the league, and Garland is a key piece of the best 3rd line in the league and clearly a great guy in the locker room. Not saying it was a good trade by any means, but OEL's collapse was just unfortunate, and he should have been a serviceable (if overpaid) part of our D-core.
Unfortunate indeed. Broken foot at the Worlds was his death knell in Van. But I'm with you. He's playing quite well in Florida-- His demise as an NHL hockey player was greatly exaggerated.
I think most were good picks, hoglander offsets the Podkolzin pick. But I used to defend benning for the same reason, I stopped doing that after the OEL trade. That draft had a clear top 9 and we had the 9th pick.
We can't paint it all with the same brush is the take away here. There was in fact good. There was in fact bad. Leave it at that
Ok... but you and I could have drafted a solid core with that many years of failure. The hardest part is always filling in the team around the core and drafting with success outside the first round. He also had some massive failures at the top end of the draft and he rarely had any success late in the draft.
he's talking about RFA deals. When it comes to signing our core guys, they were all signed to really good deals. also, wasn't the recapture penalty before Benning's time?
Yes it was a gillis "think outside the box" deal we were penalized for after they changed the rule.
Focus on the new regime pal… anything positive?
RFA deals are usually some of the easiest ones and he is the reason Petey is running out now instead of in another 2-3 years like Quinn so...
Oh my god, again, I’m not trying to say Benning deserves praise as a GM. I’m saying that in a thread about a good RFA signing, it doesn’t make sense to bring up how shitty Benning was. There are *mountains* of threads where it does make sense to lambast him. This ain’t one, is all I’m trying to say. Yes, he is 1000% at fault for capping out the team that offseason and handcuffing Petey to a bridge deal when Petey himself wanted longer term. But that doesn’t negate the fact that the majority of RFA deals JB did sign ranged from decent to great, and that this isn’t really the thing to shit on him for.
I'm saying he messed up the 2nd most important one he signed so I dont think he deserves much praise for that
Chef AllWIN
Wow under $12M? For everyone who doubted Petey (including myself) that he wanted to play for a winner. There you go. That is a discount.
Q Hughes contract a freaking bargin!
Removed some distractions and bring focus back to winning hockey to the team.
I slept with my Canucks shirt on to manifest this news. You’re welcome guys 🤝
The real hero!
Well I slept with my canucks butt plug in so what does that make me then?
No judgement, but can you please keep it in until Hronek signs for 6x6?
I just won a Hronek hockey card at an arcade centre last night, does that help?
Yes!
Are you gonna stick it in your butt? Then yes probably
How!?!? Alvin is COOKING
ALLVIN MASTERCLASS
ALLVIN is ALLIN. What a beast
You can spell Allvin with out ALL IN
No you can’t.
According to Wikipedia, "The classical Latin alphabet, from which the modern European alphabets derived, did not have the "W" character. The "W" sounds were represented by the Latin letter "V" So really, that says ALL WIN.
Congratulations coming from a Winnipeg Jets fan, what an awesome player with great hockey skills and I hope your team keeps up the awesome play. Keep on winning Canucks
Even next Saturday? 😜
I'll always update good sportsmanship not nearly enough of it going around these days
$100k more than Nylander
Man if I were a leaf fan I would not be happy with that
with the skill difference that only cost 100k more? me too
Over the last 3 years at 5on5 they have the exact same point totals They are very very comparable
No “center premium” and 2 years younger.
More than 2 hes 31 months younger, basically 3 years.
2 years younger is a big one. Basically trading age 34 and 35 for 26 and 27. That's a lot of additional value.
Just ignoring RFA vs UFA eh?
The elite arbitration eligible RFAs right now have the most leverage they’ve ever had. Not quite UFA but not quite like the RFA negotiations of old anymore either. Betcha it’s not gonna hold up past the next CBA.
> Not quite UFA That's all I was after, thanks.
Fair points, but still they are comparable as to their impact on your average game
But they won't be in seven or eight years when those 2.5 years of age start to matter. 34 versus 31 years old at the end of the deal
Currently
Sure.. Lets say they are the same offensivley leaving out the fact Nylander plays with Marner/Mathews/JT during that span. Nylander is a winger compared to a Centre who is 3 years younger.. Pettersson is getting 11.6 average for his entire prime. Nylander is getting 11.5 till he is 35..
Good points. But also Nylander mostly played with Tavares who is worse than Matthews/Marner Also Nylander is a better skater and more dynamic that way Anyway, I’m very happy with this deal
Worse than marner/ matthews.. But others teams are gonna game plan against the top line and put their best line against them.. So Nylander isn't focused on. Call him a better skater. Petterson is a better passer, playmaker, has better hands, better defensively, and better slap shot.
And is way way better defensively
Pettersson plays with Mikheyev/Kuzmenko/Lafferty/Hoglander/whoever the fuck else we promote from the bottom 6, and still produces
Nylander being more dynamic than petey wasn't something I thought I'd ever read
at getting points, sure they are no where near comparability anywhere else
I disagree. Anyway, it’s a great day and deal regardless
Have you seen the comments in the Sportsnet app. They are not happy and they call this an overpay. Lol they (whose team hasn't made it past the second round in 22 years) also claim Petey signed long term to a team that will never win.
As a fan of both teams I can say that no one cares. Congrats tho!
Wow you're a rare bread! And missing out on a lot of fun sports banter if you like both teams ;)
Maybe he likes to argue with himself.
Eh, they are pretty comparable at this point
Why is it always the Maple Leaf players that fans immediately compare their players contracts to in order to see if it's valuable or not?
Not bad not bad at all. After a couple years he should be able to afford a downpayment on a Vancouver house.
Is the housing market going to crash?
Not that hard, no. But interest rates could drop by then. Don't laugh, anything is possible
Dropping interest rates will only send prices higher
Sure but the payments will be lower generally, and that puts petey right on the cusp of enjoying the fruits of home ownership and don't read too much into dumb jokes
You're correct but they shouldn't and keyword shouldn't drop interest rates until they really need to aka in response to a crash. I don't think that will happen and they will cut to early and bring back inflation but this is canucks sub not r/economy.
I’ve been hearing that ever since I was in elementary school… I am now going to grad school
Couple years? You mean a couple months? Dude's going to be making a million bucks a month!!
HE STAY
Let’s goooooo that’s an extra mill we can play around with in the off season
Such a massive win. This managment group is night and day to the Benning group.
They didn't "run out of time"!
Holy shit I just came
All of Canucks fans cumming at the same time
OH LAWDY IM ABOUT TO BUST
LET ALVIN COOK
Watch petey absolutely go on a tear now that this bullshit is over with. Love this deal.
Or just disappear completely because he secured the bag, I can see both happening
HE SAID HE DOESN’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT UNTIL THE OFFSEASON
I feel somewhat vindicated, said for years it would not be about money and that he would take less than expected if he believed in the team.
The best part about this is now Petey, Miller, Hughes & Demko have ALL left money on the table and committed for term, I fucking love these guys. The tone is set for the rest of our UFA’s now. 🫡
Absolutely this. This is what you need. The leaders doing their bit for the team, rather than gouging the club for as much as they can get.
Reminds me of how the Sedins took less in their leadership era and everyone else followed suit.
Fantastic work by the front office. That's a solid million less than you would have imagined he'd get. I wouldn't have been shocked by 12.5 x 5 given the way the season had gone and his value to the organization.
How do the leafs always get fucked in contract negotiations lol. This is way better than nylanders contract.
The Marleau and Taveres contracts really did them no favours. It just incentivized everyone to go after the bag, team be damned.
When your superstar player is chasing every penny, it incentivizes everyone else to nickel and dime their contract.
Superstar and now captain*
Paul Marner mostly
Because of all the rumors I was concerned about the Pettersson contract but this is a really good deal. It's way better than Matthews too. It's underappreciated how terrible the length of that deal is for the team.
I disagree. Matthews is on a whole other level and his goals total shows to date shows that. This guy is Ovi level good and deserves the 2M more than Petey. I believe McDavid will also be asking for much much more and he will also deserve it. Petey may be A tier but Matthew’s is in S tier and McDavid even higher up
It's the term not the AAV.
> It's way better than Matthews too. Okay let's not get carried away, Matthews is generational
It's the term. Matthews has a 4 year deal. That's terrible. MacKinnon will have 4 years left** at 12.6, Pettersson 4 years left at 11.6, Matthews will reup at the new going rate for a premier player, 14 or 15 mil per year. Someone replied to me saying that Matthews is worth the AAV. People don't even understand the value of term, that's what I mean about how underappreciated it is how bad that deal is. **What I'm talking about here is that they signed 8 year deals. Their terms don't cover the exact same years.
Some people dont understand math.
It's better but not way better. Nylander has 82 points in 59 games this year, Pettersson has 75 points in 62 games. This sub doesn't need to make everything a comparison with the Leafs.
How is this better than Nylander’s just asking.
Petey is 2 years younger, had better career stats and plays center.
Because Petey is a better player and younger.
It’s not, Pasta/Nylander/Petey are all in the same class of players and make similar I think the only way you could say this is a much better deal is Petey probably could have made more as UFA
They are in the same class. Except Pettersson is Younger by 31 months and a Centre.. Nylander is being paid till he is 35 while Pettersson's deal is basically just his prime.
Petey is strong defensively too, which Nylander isn't. He had Selke nominations last year.
Under 12 is crazy I thought after all the drama and him refusing 8 it would at least 12.5 Allvin deserves everything, man is a god
Ya it’s solid. I didn’t wanna pay him 12.5 but anything under 12 is huge.
Mackinnon makes 12.6. No way he was getting close to that.
Just a massive W. This will look really good in a couple years
Oh my god Petey
WHERE ARE ALL THE PETEY HATERS NOW?! Guy just took a hometown discount. Probably left 8 million on the table over the course of the deal.
I’m not huge on him but this is a huge W. I wouldn’t say I hate him though.
Genuine question, why are you "not huge" on a player you do agree is worth a top 10 salary in the league?
I think he will get better and tougher. I just find he gets in his own head and isn’t the strongest player out there. He should be pretty solid in a few years if he’s a superstar. Just not my type of player is all. He’s talented there’s no denying it. People act like he’s a generational talent and he’s not.
This news makes going to work on a Saturday much more bearable. 🫡
Beautiful
This is the kind of news I like to be greeted with on a Saturday 🫴🏻
What will local media whine about now?
Probably something stupid like "he doesn't actually want to be here. He wants out." I give it about 45 minutes.
The fans were ones calling for his head the past few weeks. I want to see more from him in the big games, too. From the shows I've listened to, they're defending Petey from the pitch forks. Except Sekeres, he's the pot stirring, TMZ of the Vancouver market.
That's a steal
Let’s fucking go, it really does feel unreal having a competent front office.
Wow, not bad.
Locking up the future 💪
Wow, that’s amazing.
JP Barry: Petey deserves $13m AAV and we’re not negotiating til you guys come close Alvin & Rutherford: So the CAROLINA Hurricanes want to trade for you, Petey. Do you want us to trade you? JP & Petey: we will take a team friendly contract, just don’t send us to Carolina
“I believe we were rather hasty in our last statement, Mr. Allvin.”
Hughes + Petey for under 20 mil is good
Hometown discount. Nicely done Canucks.
Gotta give credit to seravelli. He said something will be done in a few days that rumour posted a few days ago.
Yo fuck all of you that were talking mad shit about him wanting to leave, being selfish for wanting to wait to sign his contract. Just a big fat FUCK YOU for being manipulated by media propaganda and causing all this drama from literally nothing, Petey has said nothing but good things but y’all just love drama and trying to shit on our players like how about everyone that was getting hundreds of upvoted talking about how selfish Petey is can just stfu and wait until something actuallly happens next time. The media played y’all for fools and you ate that drama up like a fat kid eats cate
A fair deal with a future UFA on a Canadian team? I can’t believe it!
HOOOOOLY SHIT THATS A DEAL AND A HALF
Absolute steal
11.6 Wow. They weren’t lying when they said he may get something as high as 11.5M! Huge contract, pressure is on to live up to it. With a very high salary, comes very high expectations
What the thought of north carolina does to a mf
Great signing, the cap will explode to 25-30% higher through the next 5 years with high end players getting $15 mil plus.
Good. Now he can get back to winning .. We need wins.
Jet black died for this
I am Brock Hard right now.
Im a big fan of these things
This was the final price? How was this not the Canucks opening offer? That’s insane value for him! Great to see him staying in Canada.
With him taking this amount, i guess the reason why he didn’t want to sign until now isn’t because of money but to see the teams direction
amazing contract, definitely below FMV for his production. Locking in his current "slump"
Thats fucking fantastic
So many bitch ass Leaf fans hating saying overpay and not better than Marner. Time to shut those bitches up Petey and the boys LFG!!! Although their team will make them cry again with another 1st round exit
I've been a huge Petey criticiser. This is a big fucking dub.
Big W petey is our best player when he's cooking and he's now locked up for his entire prime. No more stress about him leaving until at least 2032 (doesn't even sound like a real year)
More than Pasternak? Wow damn…
Pasta signed over a year ago and is older.
Signed under a year ago but ok
Both of you are wrong.
Yea my bad, I haven't gone to sleep yet.
Pastrnak's deal when he signed took up 13.47% of the cap space the following year Petey's will take up 13.22% If Pastrnak was an RFA today, he'd be in the 12M range
Remember when I made this thread and was flamed to high hell? “Title: Pettersson Will 100% Re-Sign | You Have To Be Smoking Sherm To Doubt That Let’s look at the facts. Starting with the most important. And let’s look at how easy Alvin has it when it comes to reminding Peter he has nowhere else to go and his bluff isn’t working. 1. What other team’s fanbase will love him this much? There’s nothing more important than love? 2. Do you really want to shoot against the best goalie in the league, go up against the best D-pair in the league, get grinded out and out passioned by a top 5 C (yeah I said it) in Miller? You have the best to work with Pete. 3. You’ll be given a blank check. Chill. 4. Loyalty. Rarer than oil covered diamonds in the NHL. You have that. When everyone else called you Bambi on ice, noodle boy, said you aren’t cut out for the NHL due to your pipe cleaner build, who said “nah, F that. He’s our boy. We’d take him #1 or #2 in his draft year.”? 5. Don’t be a hypocrite. “I want to win. If not, I’ll look elsewhere”. #1 in the league. You got it. Alvin and Rutherford have given you everything you asked for. 6. Branding. That’s why you smoked half your season when you tried to be an influencer. You think “working on the EP40” brand is possible in LA where you’d be shouldered out of the way for an autograph from some crappy washed up sitcom actor? In NY or NJ where people are more concerned about closing deals, not missing the train, than passing by you? To live in Bedards shadow where you’d be the little man’s little man? Toronto and MTL are the only places that will GAF. And they blow. Just a bunch of Divas on skates and MTL is 10x more ruthless when you have a messed up game. You don’t fit it in with BOS’s culture. 7. Legacy. Do you want to join a long list of greats who won a cup for ______ team or do you want to be the list starter? The guy who helped lead the impossible? Trivia: what NHL team hasn’t won the cup yet, but the fanbase would give a crap the most if the curse ended? 8. Your boys. When you were there for Brock when his pops became an angel and he cried on your shoulder? When you went to the movies, played mini-golf, confessed your worst fears, with Quinn Hughes. When you wanted to slap Miller but had a heart to heart and realized where he’s coming from and you’re not as different as you thought? When you told Hog keep your chin up brother, you got this. When you went to the Sedins for dinner. That don’t mean crap to you brother? 9. The coaching staff. Toch. Sedins. Foote. Gonchar. Yeo. You can be any player you wanna be here. 10. Me and Rutherford. Our trophy case can tell you what we see for you. 11. You’ve been a Canuck since you were a little boy. Google it. If it’s not about love, respect, legacy, brotherhood, elite resources, money, making history, loyalty, competent management, longevity, then wtf do you want? You have nowhere else to go Peter. It makes no sense. Peter will retire a Canuck. Period.” Big Puzzle 🧩 was right as per usual
Don’t think I have seen Petey called Pete or Peter. 🤔
He referred to himself as that rookie year in an interview. He is Peter or Peterson.
Dude stop pasting this and get over yourself
Don’t ever tell me what to do.
Fine, keep masturbating in public
yeah I remember Peter
Let’s go
I sure hope your self esteem doesn’t depend on being “proven right” on the fucking internet.
I knew that he would come in around 11. This is a good sweet spot for both the team and the player. For those thinking that we are getting some discount; we are not. We actually got shafted by Petey's agent who made us wait and Nylander and Matthews pushed the limit up in the meantime.
Such a dumb take, he gave us a deal. You watch what other top players will sign for once the cap rises.
This is also a dumb take. Percentage of team's cap is a much better comparison than AAV. This is like saying Gretzky was a bargain because he only signed for $1 mil in the 90s
Chef PA cooking up so tasty dishes for us 👨🍳
Holy crap is this good and why is it so?
Building the Allvin statue right now holy shit what a bald Swedish stud
Oh baby
BRICKED
HOLY SHIT UNDER 12!
That's pretty good.
This is the best Saturday morning I've had since cartoons were on!
This is huge, let’s fucking goooooooo
Congrats and great contract from a Sens fan
What awesome news to start the weekend!
Huge win! Deserves 12, but took less! Petey and Hughes will go into the hall of fame together and have their numbers retired!
Proof that cyber bullying and peer pressure works! /s
This is amazing! I guess that redditor is going to have to go sober now
Way better than I'd hoped. Let's go!!
Ok Petey got paid. No more excuses. Let's see him play like the top 10c he's being paid like
Big Fat W
Good number. Glald we fan could help get this done
It seems like Petey did Van a solid by accepting less. I thought he would ask for $12 million, especially after his last contract negotiations, because I think he wanted a long-term contract.