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Confirmed Trade: [CAR/COL/CHI] Mikko Rantanen (50%), Taylor Hall, Nils Juntorp to CAR; Martin Necas, Jack Drury, '25 2nd, '26 4th to COL; '25 3rd to CHI for retention

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A lot of people on this post are acting as if Colorado are a top 5, maybe even top 3, contender for the Stanley Cup. They are not, they may be top 10 at best. Why continue with this core as they age out?

Seems to me Rantanen's camp was asking for more money (or at least equal) to MacKinnon, which firstly is not right, and secondly severely handicaps them salary cap wise going forward. I applaud Sakic for having the balls to shake up the organization, stay cap responsible, get younger, yet still remain competitive.
 
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BKarchitect said:
Yeah I’m glad Mikko got dealt to probably my favorite team and fanbase out East. Will be pulling hard for him and the Canes. I mean, I’ll always want Rantanen to have success but if it had to be elsewhere, for me anyways….its a good spot. If he is as productive as he always is in the playoffs, he’s gonna help Carolina get over the hump.
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It sounds like you needed to find a new family for your dog.
 
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Craig Ludwig said:
A lot of people on this post are acting as if Colorado are a top 5, maybe even top 3, contender for the Stanley Cup. They are not, they may be top 10 at best. Why continue with this core as they age out?

Seems to me Rantanen's camp was asking for more money (or at least equal) to MacKinnon, which firstly is not right, and secondly severely handicaps them salary cap wise going forward. I applaud Sakic for having the balls to shake up the organization, stay cap responsible, get younger, yet still remain competitive.
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Apparently he was asking for around Draisatl's deal at $14 million (same agent). Friedman mentions it at the one minute mark.

 
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Pavel Buchnevich said:
Wow, that's an amazing deal for Colorado.

I don't know what Carolina is doing with this trade. Like sure, they got the best player for this year, but they gave up Necas for a rental? I know he only has one additional year, but I still think that's a valuable part of the equation.

If they re-sign Rantanen, I guess it becomes a lot more palatable, but it would seem that if you're Carolina the plan is to get a lot better and not get a little better. Yeah, Rantanen is a great player, but Necas is pretty good. That's a loss for them without a doubt.

The rest of the deal is basically just whatever. Not much important was involved.

Think Colorado made the most of a bad situation.
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Necas is a good player but an odd fit on the Canes as he doesn’t skate well within their very team-oriented offensive system. Necas is more of a free agent on the ice, picking up the puck and attacking directly at the defense with pure speed. As he goes, so goes his entire line.

He’s being traded now because as of 1/25/24 he’s still the Canes’ leading scorer and 12th in the league. But he has had two mini-seasons to this point — an insanely hot start of 44 points in 30 games, followed by a protracted slump of 11 points in 19 games.

For a guy who has never had a PPG season and who has struggled to perform in a tighter playoff environment, there were concerns with riding this downturn into another playoffs followed by a contract year where he has been explicit about wanting to get his big payday. If they were going to deal him, this was the time to do it.

Again he’s a good player and I’m not kicking dirt on him. Just that these have been long running issues and they are the reason he has been the centerpiece of so many threads the past couple of years. He’s better off in his upcoming situation than staying with the Canes, and they’re better off with Rantanen for a playoff run (even potentially losing him later) than doubling down on Necas long term.
 
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russ99 said:
If Rantanen hits the open market, lots of teams would pay $14M for him.
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It’s cute that teams want to keep trying to enforce these internal caps but everybody knows the cap is expected to skyrocket in the next few years. The best players on expiring deals don’t care what the other players on the team are making right now on deals they signed in previous years. They expect their % of a rising cap and if the team won’t give it to them because player X makes salary Y then they’ll go to market and get it there.
 
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centipede2233 said:
Whoever signs rants to the next contract will not be winning any cup with that contract, I promise.
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14M in the new cap would still be a smaller cap% than what the top players are signed to now. If he gets 13M then significantly so. 11M (Avs offer) on the other hand is a joke.
 
russ99 said:
Even if this was the time to deal Hall, why eat the cap essentially for free?

And if he was healthy at the deadline I’d think they could get a second for him.
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Halls play has not at all been deserving of a 2nd.

And Ryan Donato is a far better movable asset that they probably hope can get a deadline bid for.
 
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