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In less than a week, the Vancouver cannucks exchanged against Marcus Pettersson and re-signed him for six years.
The team announced Wednesday that it had accepted the defender’s terms of a contract extension worth $ 5.5 million per year.
Pettersson was part of the business This sent him and the winger who left O’Connor to the Canucks, while the attackers Danton Heinen and Melvin Fernstrom, D-Man Vincent Desharnais and a choice of first conditional round in 2025 went to the Penguins of Pittsburgh.
Vancouver Cannucks, Patrik Allvin’s general manager, announced today that the club had accepted the terms of defender Marcus Pettersson for a six -year contract extension with an AAV of $ 5.5 million. pic.twitter.com/cyafoum5xg
– Vancouver cannucks (@Canucks) February 6, 2025
Petterson’s first look at Vancouver seemed to be fine.
“In just a few games, Marcus has already shown us the type of leadership, balance and character that we want in a defender of the first four,” said GM Patrik Allvin of Canucks in a press release. “He has a soothing influence on the ice, uses his long range and his hockey intelligence to break the games and has a good first pass to help us create more offensively.
“We are extremely happy to conclude this agreement and we look forward to working with it in the short term and long -term.”
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In two games with Vancouver, the 28 -year -old is on average 24:30 am ice time and has three strokes and three blocked shots On a twinning with Tyler Myers. He also had a difficult match against the Colorado Avalanche Center Nathan Mackinnon line on Tuesday, but held him without point.
Overall this season, Pettersson has scored three goals and 18 points in 49 games between the Canucks and the Penguins. Pettersson was with Pittsburgh since the 2018-2019 campaign when the Anaheim Ducks exchanged him in exchange for Daniel Sprong. The current chairman of hockey operations in Canucks, Jim Rutherford, was the general manager of Pittsburgh at the time.
In 493 career matches in the NHL, Pettersson has 17 goals and 134 assists for 151 points. He also won four assists in 25 playoffs. The Ducks selected it 38th in total in the 2014 draft.
The native of Skelleftea, Sweden, ends a five -year contract worth $ 4,025,175 per season, which means that he obtains an increase of almost $ 1.475 million per campaign with this extension.
The New Deal also comes after the NHL and the NHLPA announced projections of salary ceilings for the next three seasons. The upper limit of next year is set at $ 95.5 million, which means that the team still has $ 19.6 million in ceiling space with 17 NHLERS UNDER Contract.
The cannucks have six UFAS pending, including the key right right Brock BoeSer, O’Connor newly acquired and goalkeeper Kevin Lankinen. There should be space to adapt to these three with increases if there is a good fit for each player beyond this season.
As for the long term, Pettersson and Filip Hronek are now signed in the 2030s – Pettersson until 2031 and Hronek until 2032. Captain Quinn Hughes was signed during the 2027-28 season. And in attack, the Elias Pettersson Center and the left winger Jake Debrusk are also signed in the 2030s. Allvin, Rutherford and Canucks Management try to lock their key parts for the coming years as they continue the first Stanley Cup of The story of the franchise.
Currently, the team just needs to make the playoffs. They are tied with the flames of Calgary in points, with 59 each, and they have the same number of games played, regulatory victories and matches won without the need for a shooting. But Calgary holds the fourth equality break, which is a total of victories – 26 for the flames and 24 for the Canucks.
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