Jamie Dodd

Exactly.

There's enough outs that it's not like a must-have for me.

Yeah, like ultimately winning is the guard against all of this.

That is the thing that protects you the most.

And if you're not doing that, you're always going to be exposed to guys wanting to leave.

But you got to figure out how to, as you said, like create that environment where they want to be here.

Okay, it is the week of the draft.

We already saw one blockbuster trade in the NHL.

We know Connor Hellebuck's name is out there.

Dylan Larkin, of course, with a trade request.

And then, of course, a lot of players here from the Vancouver Canucks as well.

Nick Kiprios, our colleague at Sportsnet, just published a trade board up at Sportsnet.ca, includes Elias Pettersson, has this to say.

trying to get to the the nut of it here he says the Canucks won't be eager to so easily cut ties for just the salary dump but would want to get prospects or draft picks to help them rebuild despite two soft seasons of offensive production the upside of Pedersen is still tantalizing it's not often centers with point per game potential come available in trade the key question becomes is there a team that believes he can get back to that level on their

roster and this is the important part with a new management structure in Vancouver led by the Sedins there is a sense the club could be more flexible in retaining salary if the right trade came along and that is something we've heard a little bit more over the last week or so that before under Jim Rutherford and Patrick Alvin retaining on Elias Pettersson was a no-go and now maybe at least that stance has softened a little bit now I've always been very wary of

of the idea of retaining on Elias Pettersson because there's so much term left on that deal.

You only get three retention slots.

It makes me very nervous locking one up for that long.

As Kiprio says, though, more flexible and retaining salary if the right trade came along.

And obviously, there's a price where you do have to consider it if you're actually getting something tangible of value back.

GW text in what is the good enough price for retaining anything on EP 40.