Despite Pettersson's recent struggles, his return could mimic past blockbuster deals involving a star center. Winnipeg recently traded Pierre-Luc Dubois to Los Angeles for three NHL pieces and a draft pick. Before that, Buffalo traded Jack Eichel to Vegas for an NHL player, a top prospect, and two draft picks.

Elias Pettersson will be a game-time decision when the Vancouver Canucks visit the Washington Capitals on Wednesday (7:30 p.m. ET; MNMT2, SN). Pettersson, who has missed the past five games with an upper-body injury, took part in the team's optional morning skate.

The idea of seeing Elias Pettersson in the Montreal Canadiens uniform is really amazing, but it seems quite complicated for the Habs. At 26 years old, Pettersson is a solid player with 440 points in 441 career games. Imagine how he would transform the Habs offense. The problem here: the price.

The Vancouver Canucks are a real life soap opera right now. The rumoured riff between star players Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller has become the talk of the hockey world.

Things are not going well in the Vancouver Canucks’ locker room, or as we say around here: there’s trouble brewing! I recently spoke about the difficult relationship between J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson,

The ongoing drama around the Vancouver Canucks took an interesting turn Saturday night as a report surfaced the team could consider trading both J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson.

The Vancouver Canucks have found themselves the topic of a great deal of midseason trade speculation and much to the dismay of their fan base, that trade speculation surrounds two of the team’s top forwards in JT Miller and Elias Pettersson.