There is just no way the nucks don't match for that dollar value. Someone would have to give Pettersson 11 million in a offer sheet for it to be interesting as Pettersson is worth pretty close to that honestly.

I know but after they sign Hughes (assuming they sign him first) they won't have enough to match Petterson for that and it's a 2 year bridge that I figured should be backloaded for the 2nd year so that Petterson's qualifying amount would be around 10mill.

Van may already have Hughes signed. They wouldn't announce it until Pettersson is signed.

And 8.2 is an easy match...

I just made it 8.2 to have the 1st 2nd and 3rd compensation, I'll up his contact then.

This. I think there are probably several different contract scenarios that the team and agents are close on, but any announcement will be for both players’ extensions at the same time. It also wouldn’t surprise me if they have an agreement on long term deals for both players, but the hold-up is that Benning is still trying to find a way to free up more cap space through another trade.

Vancouver matches any offer-sheet on Pettersson that doesn't involve 4 first round picks in compensation.

Pettersson OS is easily matched, You'd have to offer him in the $13,000,000 to $14,000,000 range for Benning to take the picks. And he's not worth that kind of money. Noway he'd sign a 2 year OS anyways needs to be 5-7 years easily.