Canucks' Elias Pettersson trade plans could be ignoring key underlying stats
Vancouver has to be careful about this.
Canucks' Elias Pettersson trade plans could be ignoring key underlying stats originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Much has been made about the downfall of Elias Pettersson.
In many ways, it's totally fair. The Vancouver Canucks ' talented all-around center has not been as good in recent times as he was when he earned himself a massive contract extension. That has put him at the center of plenty of trade rumors in the past nine months.
The idea of a trade just to change things up seems somewhat warranted, even if it'd feel a bit like selling low. After all, Pettersson's value has tanked, and it's hard to see another team wanting to pay the full remainder of his contract: When’s the last time we saw a downfall like Elias Pettersson? He went from 102 pt season few years back to 51 pts this past season, production literally cut in half, although he did miss 8 games this season, but still, wouldn’t have made that much of a difference.
— NHL Watcher (@NHL_Watcher) May 20, 2026 MORE: Sabres' story of this season is about all the chapters along the way It'd be wise for the Canucks to consider this a little bit longer before they enter into any deals, though, too. Pettersson's 2025-26 season was bad, but it had reasons to believe. In a reply to the post above, it was pointed out that Pettersson had 13 points in the Canucks' final 16 games of the season.