When elite talent is involved, though, the bar starts high and stays high no matter the timing. Trading for Mikko Rantanen in late ... But the team got back on track in January.

WE’VE GOT A BLOCKBUSTER Mikko Rantanen and ... 2025 Several criticized the Avalanche’s decision because Mikko Rantanen has the talent that we know. He is part of the NHL elite, and nobody ...

It’s Mikko Rantanen, right?” MacFarland began Saturday night in an interview with The Athletic. “Everybody knows he’s an incredible talent ... We won in ’22 and got knocked out the ...

Never in their history, not once, had the Carolina Hurricanes traded for an elite, in-his-prime star like Mikko Rantanen ... to give up talent to get talent, and the Hurricanes got one of the ...

When Mikko Rantanen ... by acquiring Rantanen, a top-three player at his position in the prime of his career, the reverberations were finally starting to fade as the league got its mind around ...

It's been two weeks since the Avalanche shocked hockey by trading Mikko ... after Rantanen have combined for 639 points in the NHL. Rantanen himself has 683. The Avalanche got that one right ...

Facing the prospect of Colorado's star winger Mikko Rantanen becoming ... "I felt that the pieces we got made sense to strike now." Colorado traded Rantanen in a three-team deal to the Carolina ...

BOSTON — Chris MacFarland wanted to keep Mikko Rantanen and make his roster deeper ... “And I think that you’ve got to be deep to go four rounds. Hopefully this is going to help that.