Vancouver's $20M Payroll Order Doesn't Need Elias Pettersson
The payroll order everyone is using to explain the Elias Pettersson trade talk is smaller than his contract. Clearing him doesn't satisfy it. It overshoots it, straight through the floor.
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Canucks by the numbers
Final 2025-26 regular season · source NHL, data as of 2026-09-28. Goals per game exclude shootout deciders. Standings · All 32 teams
- 25-49-8Record
- 58Points
- 32ndNHL rank
- 2.56GF / GP
- 3.83GA / GP
- 21.8PP%
- 71.5PK%
- 49.3FO%
Possession · 5-on-5
Computed by Play-Pause Hockey from the league play-by-play, 2025-26, 1312 regular-season games. Where a rank is shown it is among the 32 clubs, 1st = best. PDO and zone starts carry none: a high PDO means hot rather than good, and zone starts are how a club is deployed rather than how well it plays. All 32 teams
- 46.5CF%29th of 32 · Share of shot attempts
- 46.2FF%29th of 32 · Unblocked attempts
- 97.4PDOShooting % + save %, 100 is neutral
- 48.2OZS%Share of zone faceoffs in the attacking end
Skaters
| Player | GP | G | A | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Elias Pettersson | 74 | 15 | 36 | 51 |
 Filip Hronek | 82 | 8 | 41 | 49 |
 Brock Boeser | 75 | 22 | 26 | 48 |
 Jake DeBrusk | 81 | 23 | 19 | 42 |
 Linus Karlsson | 79 | 15 | 20 | 35 |
 Marco Rossi | 50 | 12 | 23 | 35 |
 Evander Kane | 71 | 13 | 18 | 31 |
 Drew O'Connor | 82 | 17 | 12 | 29 |
 Zeev Buium | 76 | 6 | 20 | 26 |
 Tom Willander | 70 | 5 | 16 | 21 |
 Max Sasson | 66 | 13 | 6 | 19 |
 Liam Ohgren | 69 | 8 | 10 | 18 |
 Marcus Pettersson | 82 | 3 | 15 | 18 |
 Teddy Blueger | 35 | 9 | 8 | 17 |
 Aatu Räty | 66 | 4 | 10 | 14 |
 Elias Pettersson | 70 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
 Pierre-Olivier Joseph | 31 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
 Arshdeep Bains | 28 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
 Nils Hoglander | 38 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
 Curtis Douglas | 43 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
 Mackenzie MacEachern | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
 Filip Chytil | 12 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
 Jonathan Lekkerimaki | 13 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
 Victor Mancini | 24 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
 Kirill Kudryavtsev | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
 Ty Mueller | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Braeden Cootes | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Derek Forbort | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Joseph LaBate | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Nils Aman | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Goalies
| Goalie | GP | W | L | SV% | GAA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Kevin Lankinen | 47 | 11 | 27 | .875 | 3.70 |
 Thatcher Demko | 20 | 8 | 10 | .897 | 2.90 |
 Nikita Tolopilo | 21 | 6 | 11 | .881 | 3.61 |
 Jiri Patera | 1 | 0 | 1 | .825 | 7.39 |
Canucks on NHL EDGE
Puck and player tracking, 2025-26 regular season · source NHL EDGE. Ranks are among the 32 clubs, 1st = best; defensive-zone time ranks the least time first. All 32 teams
- 23.7mphTop skating speed18th of 32league avg 23.8
- 51Shots over 90 mph17th of 32league avg not published
- 1543Bursts over 20 mph27th of 32league avg 1762
- 3715.3miDistance skated20th of 32league avg 3727.0
- 98.2mphTop shot speed26th of 32league avg 99.7
- 2129Shots on goal25th of 32league avg 2282
- 9.9%Shooting %29th of 32league avg 11.1
- 39.9%Offensive-zone time27th of 32league avg 41.1
- 42.8%Defensive-zone time30th of 32league avg 41.1
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The Real Obstacle to a Pettersson Trade Is Pettersson
The market has decided Elias Pettersson should move. The one person who can veto it hasn't, and he has already used that veto once.