Miller/Pettersson feud: “Something is going to have to give.”

The Vancouver Canucks have been doing their best to obfuscate the fact that there has been a serious rift between two of their top forwards, J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson, but it would appear as though that situation may finally be coming to a head.

On Saturday night, National Hockey League insider Elliotte Friedman touched on the latest developments regarding the feud between the two teammates with Friedman indicating that things are likely to be resolved in relatively short order, one way or another.

Friedman began by confirming what everyone already knows, that the two players do in fact not care for one another's company.

"It's not new to people who follow the Canucks that [Miller] and Pettersson have a unique relationship to say the least," said Friedman on Hockey Night in Canada.

It sounds like a number of factors have however pushed things to a breaking point, with Friedman laying out three key points during his report on Saturday night.

"Number one, the Canucks thought this was solved last year, the team had a great year the two players had a great year and they thought they had moved past this, obviously that wasn't the case," said Friedman. "Number two it's bled into the way they've played on the ice and that can't happen, you can't have it affect the way and the team are playing. And number three and this is probably the most important one, it has started to take its toll on other people in the organization, the players, the coaching staff and the hockey operations department."

Friedman stressed that he believes the Canucks would prefer to keep both players within their organization moving forward but it definitely sounds as though that may no longer be a guarantee with the personal relationship between the two players becoming such a burden on the organization as a whole.

"If no, I don't think there's a timeline or anything like that, they haven't started the clock, but eventually I think everybody realizes that something is going to have to give," concluded Friedman.

That sounds very much like one of the two men could very well be on their way out of Vancouver, but as to which of the two that will be? Your guess is as good as mine.

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