An injury prone forward who just tore his knee
A guy who’s a PR nightmare that no team will trade for
A late 1st
Another 1st that will likely be late (good chance it become Florida’s 1st)
A late 2nd

Not even close to enough for Pettersson. There’s no high end piece

Small note for my argument: As a prerequisite for this deal, we assume it comes with an extension.

I literally don't think there is a price MTL could pay for Pettersson that is both worth it for the Canucks and wouldn't set MTL back years on the rebuild, they are going to asking for a stupid high price, because unless its's an overpay like we have never seen before, they just sign him and try to win. The stuff that was said by the insiders before the season started doesn't really apply because of how good they have been. There is no reason for Pettersson to want out now.

They would be looking at guys like Caufield, Slafkovsky, Reinbacher, Guhle, MTL's 1st this year, Suzuki, Hutson. All of the most valuable pieces of now and the near future and taking some of them. Mailloux, magic beans (Which arent even MTL's), and Dach wouldn't make sense for them because they are in win now mode.

So I don't think it makes sense for either team, Vancouver doesn't need to trade him which means Montreal would need to pay a premium I don't think they are ready to.

You might get a heat soon, so get ready for your inbox to explode, they are very protective of Pettersson, I learned the hard way about a year after their draft when I said I thought Makar was better then Pettersson in 2018, and got somewhere close to 100 death threats and a ton of comment abuse.