First, Rutherford and general manager Patrik Allvin must figure out how to deal with the relationship between Miller and Pettersson.
“I felt like for a long time that there was a solution here because everybody has worked on it, including the parties involved,” said Rutherford, who is in his fourth season as Vancouver’s president of hockey operations. “But it only gets resolved for a short period of time and then it festers again, and so it certainly appears like there’s not a good solution that would keep this group together.”
Rutherford said he’d rather not have to trade either player, but it appears whatever issues between Pettersson and Miller can’t be easily resolved.
“We’ve had those conversations, and…