Confirmed with Link: [Col/Chi/Car] Rantanen (50% by Chicago), Hall, Nils Juntorp to Car - Drury, Necas, 2nd, 4th to Avs, 3rd round pick to Chicago

[Anton Dubinchuk]

I'm just glad we aren't seeing his historical second half Performances.

If he can play the last 40 like the first 40 that will be a big boon to the club.

In 53 games he’s one goal away from exactly matching his G-A-P from what he did last year in 79. That’s pretty good.

 

[Discipline Daddy]

I think it boils down to fit. Beating 98 mil is the easy part, the harder part is convincing Rants that this is the spot he wants to stay for 8 years.

Agreed. I was thinking $14M x 7 is about the best offer he'd get on the free market right now. Maybe $15M if a team has oodles of capspace, but that's unlikely, especially with Drai getting $14M. Rantanen is not better than Draisaitl.

$14x7 is something we could match easily on a 7 year deal, or just offer $14x8, or get a discount. $12.5Mx8 seems like the reasonable middle ground for everyone, but maybe Rantanen will argue he wants a higher AAV to get closer to 14. Fortunately we're well structured to handle that. I imagine Tulsky will want to watch how Rantanen looks in the system for the whole rest of the season and playoffs before negotiating an extension.

 

[robbieberns]

Due to this trade and all the tweets I consumed about it, my twitter algorithm has decided I should be introduced to Canes twitter. One of the worst grievances ever done towards me, this group is so much worse than any Facebook Canes group I was privy to in the past. These twitter Canes fans are so arrogant and loudly stupid I have to bite my tongue constantly. Imagine a group of professors teaching classic literature when they would be struggling to complete Captain Underpants books.

 

[Unhinged Finn]

Due to this trade and all the tweets I consumed about it, my twitter algorithm has decided I should be introduced to Canes twitter. One of the worst grievances ever done towards me, this group is so much worse than any Facebook Canes group I was privy to in the past. These twitter Canes fans are so arrogant and loudly stupid I have to bite my tongue constantly. Imagine a group of professors teaching classic literature when they would be struggling to complete Captain Underpants books.

By the way, how does the first Captain Underpants book end? Asking for a friend.

 

[robbieberns]

By the way, how does the first Captain Underpants book end? Asking for a friend.

As someone who grew up the generation before they were popular I would guess and say someone performs super heroic duties in their knickers

 

[AD Skinner]

Captain underpants gets kids who would otherwise never pick up a book interested in reading so he’s all good by me

 

[robbieberns]

Captain underpants gets kids who would otherwise never pick up a book interested in reading so he’s all good by me

Recently been reading a ton for the first time in maybe a decade because of how damning the statistics are regarding how much of a societal drop off we’ve had when it comes to reading. After a few months you feel bad and ashamed about how much your conflictive ability has improved and how you are for real doing yourself a disservice by not reading ardently.

 

[LakeLivin]

A Captain Underpants tangent taking off in a Mikko Rantanen trade thread? How HF26 is that?!

 

[baconandbread]

Petition to change Gronk's nickname to Captain Underpants

 

[Unhinged Finn]

Petition to change Gronk's nickname to Captain Underpants

And one shift with Staal-FUS-Rants aka Captain UngerRants line

 

[TheBigLetowski]

Some Canes Twitter thinks Rants doesn’t re-sign because he’s not getting 20+ mins and is playing with Blake. We’re 5 games in w/ him and the argument is “fit’

 

[spockBokk]

Some Canes Twitter thinks Rants doesn’t re-sign because he’s not getting 20+ mins and is playing with Blake. We’re 5 games in w/ him and the argument is “fit’

He could easily have 3-4goals already, he’s clearly snakebit. Also he’s had a few assists called back on disallowed goals. Blake fits on that line just fine, although I do think Jarvis is the better long term fit there.

The Canes Twitterati are insufferable. I shudder to think their meltdown if Rantanen doesn’t stick around.

On another note, a bunch of Rantanen related stuff in Friedman’s 32 Thoughts:



Nothing new that’s hasn’t already been discussed ad nauseum here, but one thing he keeps bringing up is the potential of a deal not being done by the deadline and would the Canes consider flipping him if a deal isn’t done by then. I wonder if that is pure speculation or the sometimes “informed” speculation he sometimes does. No doubt they’d get a crap-ton of futures for rental Rantanen, especially if they retained another 50%. A bidding war for the ages would occur for Rantanen under $3M aav. Likely moot though as I still have positive thoughts about him re-signing.