Russo goes on to say that it’s “not his style” to just throw rumours out there without any information to back them up – however, he also does not go into more detail.
A damn hot take regardless, and not a good one.
Edit: this was said when discussing whether Petey will re-sign, not in the context of trades.
Source: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5HrUrCuDc8E7ipbyFReSFQ?si=wj4c-6PpQDm5a64Pj3w9DA&t=699
Starting at 11:40
by Aaron1601
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Why would this be a hot take, Pettersson all but said this before signing his last contract.
Yeah I can’t blame our young talent for wanting to move on. Everything is shit about Vancouver Hockey, the team, the management, the attitude, the media and the fans.
I can’t stand this sub sometimes lately. Just whining and calling for a tank and day dreaming about Bedard all day long.
what is the behind the scenes stuff?
Ah yes the classic hot take of a great player possibly not wanting to keep playing on a dysfunctional team.
Pettersson leaves. We don’t get Bedard. Miller is our sole “elite” forward for the next 8 years.
What an amazing timeline we might be heading towards! Ensuring we will reach 60 years without a cup.
I guess it will be exciting to see where he goes and find out who my new team is
I’m surprised any player would want to play in Vancouver considering the incompetence of ownership and management over a very long period of time.
Basically if you want to win you should play elsewhere, and I’m sure this is known around the league.
Probably Miller
I take downvotes every time… but I have friends on the team. He does not like, to put it mildly, JT Miller.
This will be the most lasting impact of this fiasco.
Yeah. I wouldn’t want to work for Aquaman either.
As a Canucks fan, I would also like to move on but because of front-of-the-scene stuff.
I hated seeing Sbisa’s slow ass completely nerf the Sedins transition game.
I hated seeing Virtanen show up to camp fat year after year.
I hated seeing Tanev walk.
The list of things I hate is never ending.
I think the thing I hate the most is watching Canuck players play listless mean-nothing hockey season after season ad Infinitum.
I seriously have better things to do.
Petey has to take care of Petey just like Jared.
Same issues will happen even if we get Bedard. Ownership just can not help themselves. It is in their nature to meddle.
We need a new owner.
The Kraken are in their 2nd season. They’re already better than the canucks in every way. They just shut out the Bruins in Boston. Think about that.
There is no light at the end of the tunnel….it’s one thing after another with this team. It’s tiresome.
If Petey leaves that will be my cue to sell my jerseys and pick another team. Been a fan for 40 years. He’s my canary in a coal mine if they can’t utilize his talent surround him with good players and manage to be dysfunctional enough that he wants to leave. That’s a good enough signal for me.
I imagine he’s not happy at the moment playing on a bad Canucks team, but Michael Russo, a Minnesota Wild journalist/beat reporter has the inside scoop on Petey?
What the fuck. I fucking miss Botch.
Tier 4, rumor shit at best.
Totally understandable for Petey. We’re the bad guys, and that’s a tipping point to stop cheering for these fuckers.
One thing that the Canucks lost with the Sedins was class. Not in the prestige sense, but in the basic “the team that I’m cheering for ain’t the bad guys” which was hard to do when your next best two skaters were Kes and Burr. Sedins left, later Tanev left, and shit remains.
When they went, Fuck Benning spent to the cap on “class/character” guys with a much different style. “Foundational piece” Sutter was a leader that had a more macho, “grow some balls Goldobin” style. Loui the Pussy is a fucking meme when he was supposed to be a leader. Miller, Myers and OEL are anchors in every sense. And Bo, Petey, Hughes and Brock, the character homegrown young guys forged in fire, want to GTFO.
Our owner is a jackass, our management are yesgirls, elephants or chipmunks, our coach is a dead man walking, our medical team is a group of chiros masquerading as physicians, and our team is a fucking joke. The only reason to follow this team is to actively cheer against them.
If our management trades away a franchise player for us, one of the untouchables…that would drive a wedge even more so into their relationship with the fanbase.
As a lifelong Canucks fan I have moved on. I now watch other sports. Grew up watching the sport, literally don’t give two shits about it.
I go wherever Petey goes
It’s interesting because I was at the closed team practice and there was an incident where Quinn fell on his butt during a drill. And JT Miller laughed and hackled Quinn by batting his stick away. Then, Petey grabbed Quinn’s stick, handed back to Quinn and helped him get up on his feet as well.
I didn’t think it was a big deal but maybe petey doesn’t appreciate such behaviours. Who knows?
Oh ya he gone. Good riddance to this dumpster fire organization.
If Petey leaves I will stop watching this team, at least until there is concrete progress towards a full rebuild and cup run instead of this Mickey Mouse retooling that we’ve had to live with for the last decade.
I love Petey like no tomorrow and wherever he chooses to go, if he chooses to do so, I will support him. He deserves way more than this absolute dumpster fire of management.
Jt Heatley.” I’m a fuckin superstar”
Remember when Jack Hughes said the Canucks sucked? The players talk and it feels more and more that the Canucks are considered a “shitty workplace.”
Have been saying this for three years, he isn’t invested in the team. You can tell by his pressers. I don’t blame him though.
Blow it up. I’m done.
Glimpsed on another site, in regards to this…….it certainly made ME chuckle. 🙂
“Not sure why. The 9 year rebuild is right on course with a top 30 prospect pool and a team CONSTANTLY competing for a top 25 spot in the league while being to the cap max every year and only 4.5 years left on scratched OEL and his $7.2 million contract.”
JT seems to be the cancer in the room. The culture has shit the bed since his attitude has tanked.
He could be the new Messier, but we maybe stuck with him for a decade.
Could be time to find a new franchise to support. This is really bad. If we lose EP, Quinn, and Bo I have no hope for this franchise.
I’m so tired of hearing about “behind the scenes stuff” without spilling the fucking tea. WHAT IS IT??? I don’t think it would be said this way if it was just “the team isn’t good and it’s frustrating”. This stuff has dogged the team for half a decade by now but we NEVER get any clarity. I NEED someone to depart the team on unfriendly terms and leak what the actual fuck is going on that makes every player mope around like a loser when they come here.
I genuinely hope Petey leaves. He deserves a lot more than what this pathetic team and ownership group can give him.
I mean people were saying that about McDavid a few years ago too. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Good for Petey, I hope he leaves. This place sucks.
Seems pretty obvious to me at this point if you just read his body language. I don’t think he’s entirely blameless here, part of being a professional is working with people you don’t like. That being said, if I had to pick any one person to build the team around it’s Petey so if hypothetically he was going to be a diva about it I’d still get rid of the other guys first.
Our owner is destroying this franchise. I have lived through everything since the mid 80’s and I’ve never been more disillusioned with this franchise. Until Aquilini goes we are fucked. I actually hate him. I don’t care how strong that word is.
Honestly, it kind of feels like if we could clear house and get to a point where we have few stars but also no anchor contracts, we’d be in a better spot than we are today. Limbo sucks.
Who is Michael Russo? He can fuck aaaall the way right off
When Nathan McKinnon said “I’ve been in this league for years and haven’t won shit” I bet Elias is thinking that right now and will want to go to a team that has a snowball’s chance in hell instead of a team with the stupidest owners in the league and the spineless Brisco and Patterson to Vince in the attitude era type management they’ve hired
The part that worries me about all of this is that, if it’s true, management doesn’t have a clue about the locker room chemistry. How do you go and sign a guy to a huge extension if he’s this disliked by his teammates? How do you sign a guy who might chase away your best player? None of that seems to add up. It’s all making me start to question if Allvin and co were good hires. The amount of drama this season is insane. They need to get a hard cap on this stuff asap. Or sit in front of the media for once.