{"id":795926,"date":"2026-07-11T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/795926\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T23:05:08","slug":"pacific-notes-pettersson-wright-dach-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/795926\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Notes: Pettersson, Wright, Dach \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By Brian La Rose<\/a> |
\n at July 11, 2026 3:00 pm <\/p>\n

As new Canucks GM Ryan Johnson<\/a> works to change up his roster, there has been plenty of speculation about Elias Pettersson<\/a>\u2019s future.\u00a0 Speaking with Sportsnet\u2019s Iain MacIntyre<\/a>, Johnson made it clear that any trade wouldn\u2019t be about dumping salary; they\u2019d be looking for strong value in return.\u00a0 Pettersson is two years into an eight-year, $92.8MM contract ($11.6MM AAV) and has managed just 96 points in 138 games on that deal after putting up 191 points in 162 games in the two years before it started.\u00a0 That led some to wonder if Vancouver might be open to taking a lesser return in order to get themselves out of at least most of the contract.\u00a0 Instead, that won\u2019t be the case, with Johnson noting that there are no payroll restrictions on his group as the team embarks on what looks to be a lengthy rebuilding process.<\/p>\n

More from the Pacific:<\/p>\n

Still with the Canucks, CHEK\u2019s Rick Dhaliwal reported on a recent Oilers Now podcast (audio link<\/a>) that Vancouver has inquired about Kraken center Shane Wright<\/a>. While Seattle is believed to be trying to facilitate a suitable trade, they\u2019re believed to have a high price tag for his services.\u00a0 Dhaliwal indicated that Seattle\u2019s ask in return was either defenseman Zeev Buium<\/a> or blueliner Tom Willander<\/a>, a price Vancouver isn\u2019t willing to pay.\u00a0 It\u2019s understandable that Kraken GM Jason Botterill would be seeking a core piece with several years of club control remaining as that\u2019s effectively the situation Wright finds himself in, still being five years away from UFA eligibility.
\nThe Oilers have one remaining restricted free agent, winger Colton Dach<\/a>. However, his agent Gerry Johansson indicated to Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal<\/a> that the team has communicated that they need some more time to work things out.\u00a0 Edmonton has a little under $6MM in cap space per PuckPedia<\/a> and it appears they\u2019re prioritizing getting an external acquisition in place before deciding what type of contract to give to Dach.\u00a0 The 23-year-old had 13 points and 219 hits in 61 games between Chicago and Edmonton last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Brian La Rose | at July 11, 2026 3:00 pm As new Canucks GM Ryan Johnson works…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,100644,453,13057,768,183154,82,16875,452,97058],"class_list":["post-795926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-colton-dach","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-elias-pettersson","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-shane-wright","tag-sports","tag-tom-willander","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-zeev-buium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795926","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=795926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}