{"id":420933,"date":"2026-01-20T07:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420933\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T07:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:22:07","slug":"growing-suspicion-from-nhl-teams-that-elias-pettersson-is-traded-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420933\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Growing suspicion\u2019 from NHL teams that Elias Pettersson is traded this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seravalli: \u2018Growing suspicion\u2019 from NHL teams that Elias Pettersson is traded this season<\/p>\n<p>Amidst the Canucks\u2019 <a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"https:\/\/canucksarmy.com\/news\/allvin-talks-sherwood-trade-vancouver-canucks-plan-moving-forward-injury-updates-more\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rapid pivot to a rebuild,<\/a> one thing is becoming clear: the team is open to offers on any of their core players if the price is right. Earlier this season it was Quinn Hughes, this week it was <a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"https:\/\/canucksarmy.com\/news\/vancouver-canucks-trade-kiefer-sherwood-san-jose-sharks-cole-clayton-two-second-round-picks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kiefer Sherwood<\/a>, and it could soon be Pettersson.Joining <a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FAN590\/status\/2013379811486400667?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sportsnet 590 The FAN on Monday,<\/a> NHL insider Frank Seravalli reported that teams across the league believe Pettersson could be traded this season, and potentially soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s definitely a growing suspicion from teams that (an Elias Pettersson trade) happens this year. There are some thinking maybe even before the Olympics,\u201d Seravalli said. \u201cThat feels kinda quick, but the Canucks have been in the spot where they\u2019re ready and willing to consider anything and everything pretty much throughout the course of the organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NHL\u2019s Olympic roster freeze begins on February 4th, meaning if the Canucks really are keen on getting something done before then, they have just over two weeks. As the Canucks\u2019 first-line centre, Pettersson is obviously a key piece for the team, and at 27 years old, he\u2019s hardly past his prime. But the once 100-point player has seen a rapid decline in his statline over the past few seasons. So far this year, he has 29 points in 40 games.<\/p>\n<p>Seravalli added later on Sportsnet 650\u2019s <a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Canucks_Central\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Canucks Central<\/a> that he believes the return in a Pettersson trade would be better than what the Canucks got for JT Miller, which is making the team consider a move. On Sportsnet, he expanded on the market situation that is making Pettersson such a valuable asset.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at the deals signed for Dvorak and Wennberg, $5.15 million for Dvorak and $6 million for Wennberg,\u201d Seravalli said. \u201cAll of a sudden you turn around and you look at Elias Pettersson and you say, if we believe this is a guy we can rejuvenate, get his career going with a change of scenery, all of a sudden $11.6 million a year doesn\u2019t sound like a crazy risk profile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seravalli noted the Carolina Hurricanes as \u201cone of a handful of teams\u201d calling the Canucks right now, with the overwhelming interest being another reason to look into moving Pettersson. Of course, the Swedish forward holds a full no-movement clause, so he would have to approve of any deal Vancouver makes.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, Seravalli went on Oilers Now and said that teams are \u201cbeating down the Canucks\u2019 door\u201d for Pettersson, and added that there has been \u201creal and significant\u201d interest in Pettersson over the last 10 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seravalli: \u2018Growing suspicion\u2019 from NHL teams that Elias Pettersson is traded this season Amidst the Canucks\u2019 rapid pivot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-420933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}