Vancouver Canucks GM Patrik Allvin is dramatically reshaping his team.
Pettersson is a handy, steady smart defenceman, a second-pairing blueliner of the sort that the Canucks have been chasing after for a year.
His name had been mooted as a potential Canucks for some time, though you wondered how the Canucks would make such a trade happened.
Once they acquired a first-round pick in the Miller trade, that possibility became real.
The Canucks flipped that conditional first-round pick — it’s top-13 protected — along with prospect Melvin Fernström and a pair off-season signings in Danton Heinen and Vincent Desharnais, who proved to be misfires.
O’Connor is a big, strong winger the current Canucks management team recruited in Pittsburgh and who will surely find himself immediately on the fourth line on Sunday.
With Heinen and Desharnais, the Canucks move on from players who never quite fit: Desharnais was a hoped-for project player who proved to be the player he was in Edmonton, big, strong, with weak puck skills, while Heinen had nice smarts and skills but no physical presence.
It’s been a day for reshaping the lineup; and the Canucks still have cap space to work with, making you wonder what move will come next.