Confirmed with Link: [CAR/DAL] Rantanen to DAL, Stankoven, 1sts to CAR

[Blueline Bomber]

More comments from Rantanen about his time in Carolina

The sad part is too many people aren’t familiar enough with AI and will believe this is real.

 

[MyLuckyPuck]

Sighhhh DB with his daily Canes beating with Kouli on XM, on the trade again. I think his main beef is that we got a rebuild package for non-rebuilding team. What the heck else could we do here other than cut bait? The dude was coasting and not giving any effort. You can’t keep here for a playoff run.

 

[Borsig]

How is Tank and 2 firsts and 2 3rds a rebuild package? Its literally a window extension. By next year Tank will produce, most likely what Necas was producing here with more of a fit. These are terrible takes.

Im willing to bet Jankowski turns out to be better value than Drury too considering their contracts. Drury was damn near useless and we got someone who I think is a little better for league min for another season.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

How is Tank and 2 firsts and 2 3rds a rebuild package? Its literally a window extension. By next year Tank will produce, most likely what Necas was producing here with more of a fit. These are terrible takes.

Im willing to bet Jankowski turns out to be better value than Drury too considering their contracts. Drury was damn near useless and we got someone who I think is a little better for league min for another season.

Yeah, if Stankoven, Nikishin, and Morrow pan out to what they could be, they'll greatly extend the contention window, potentially by a decade-plus.

 

[DaveG]

How is Tank and 2 firsts and 2 3rds a rebuild package? Its literally a window extension. By next year Tank will produce, most likely what Necas was producing here with more of a fit. These are terrible takes.

Im willing to bet Jankowski turns out to be better value than Drury too considering their contracts. Drury was damn near useless and we got someone who I think is a little better for league min for another season.

Mainly because we didn't turn one of the firsts into someone like Boeser, of course that's assuming we had time to complete the negotiations and the trade after the Dallas deal, which we probably didn't.

 

[Borsig]

right but, again, this isn't the year for rentals, and rentals suck. Carry that to the draft where they are worth more and dont touch the 26 picks.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

How is Tank and 2 firsts and 2 3rds a rebuild package? Its literally a window extension. By next year Tank will produce, most likely what Necas was producing here with more of a fit. These are terrible takes.

Im willing to bet Jankowski turns out to be better value than Drury too considering their contracts. Drury was damn near useless and we got someone who I think is a little better for league min for another season.

Jankowski is one goal away from tying Drury on the Canes goals list this season.

 

[CanesFanBudMan]

I have a feeling the wheels will fall off Salas next year. Rant making a low effort 12 million while Hintz, Robertson, Johnston, and Heiskanen all make 8.5 or less could cause some locker room issues. Especially when that contract causes them to lose some room favorites to the cap. That 2026 pick might be higher than expected

 

[Nikishin al Gaib]

I have a feeling the wheels will fall off Salas next year. Rant making a low effort 12 million while Hintz, Robertson, Johnston, and Heiskanen all make 8.5 or less could cause some locker room issues. Especially when that contract causes them to lose some room favorites to the cap. That 2026 pick might be higher than expected

It's only a matter of time before Rants gets pouty in Dallas. Just wait til the honeymoon period is over and he goes back to mailing it in because he doesn't think his taint is being licked enough.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Rantanen will probably be perfectly good in Dallas. 80-90 points every year and a true top line winger. He’ll also be out of sight out of mind eventually because he’s in the West and we’ve got our own team to worry about.

Hate-casting him as eventually falling off hard isn’t really necessary. He’ll be good, with the rising cap he’ll be more or less worth the contract, and we’ll be on to bigger and better things.

 

[robbieberns]

Sighhhh DB with his daily Canes beating with Kouli on XM, on the trade again. I think his main beef is that we got a rebuild package for non-rebuilding team. What the heck else could we do here other than cut bait? The dude was coasting and not giving any effort. You can’t keep here for a playoff run.

I’m ok with dr poopoo and mr peepee on a radio station hating how all this went down. Only the people with the largest picture understanding of this organization are going to appreciate the end game result of Necas+Drury+picks for a return of Stsnkoven+Hall+picks ended up being a fair trade off for a guy who had 1.5 years left and was absolutely going to UFA next summer. We just have to face it, the optics of this deal are bad. The best way to combat that is to have an absolute monster summer.