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

[robbieberns]

This years team, while still good, has a few too many shortcomings to be viewed as a proper challenger, and I think the trade off of Necas and Drury for Rantanen and Hall doesn’t exactly address any of those shortcomings. Part of the reason i’m so extension or bust regarding this trade is that the combo of KK 2C, Burns 1RD, downgrade at 4C, inconsistent goaltending is just too high a mountain to climb.

 

[spockBokk]

This years team, while still good, has a few too many shortcomings to be viewed as a proper challenger, and I think the trade off of Necas and Drury for Rantanen and Hall doesn’t exactly address any of those shortcomings. Part of the reason i’m so extension or bust regarding this trade is that the combo of KK 2C, Burns 1RD, downgrade at 4C, inconsistent goaltending is just too high a mountain to climb.

I think also you have to look at the trade viewing who will be available in UFA this summer. I agree that this year’s team hasn’t shown the consistency of past Canes’ contenders.

Without Rantanen or Marner, the 2025 UFA class is very underwhelming. By acquiring Rantanen now, the Canes’ front office has a 5 month head start on keeping him. Knowing they’d have soooo much cap space and likely no real worthwhile UFAs to spend it on, I suppose it makes sense to jump the gun on the best one available.

 

[FinPanda]

The team has a big problem if 1D is Burns who is not as good as he used to be. The team needs more.

 

[JLo217]

I think the points will start coming for Rantanen eventually. But this trade also makes me regret that we let Guentzel go even more.

Guentzel somehow was a perfect fit for this team. Aho looked on another level with Guentzel on his wing. Guentzel also elevated Jarvis’s play.

Rantanen has looked dangerous, and I do think is snake bitten. But for whatever reason his play so far hasn’t elevated Aho’s play like Guentzel did.

We’ve watched Aho & Svech struggle for years to find chemistry. Part of me thinks Aho’s game just doesn’t translate well with power forwards like Rantanen & Svech. I wonder if Aho would benefit more from a playmaker / shifty winger like Marner?

While good. Rantanen hasn’t been a play driver on the Avs for 2+ years. He relied on Mack, Landy and Lehky to do the heavy lifting on puck retrievals and zone entries.

His skating for whatever reason dropped off 2 years ago. Ismo (Lehkys dad called him out). He’s constantly on the ice and takes awful offensive zone penalties.

I love Rants, but he needs a pretty specific set up it seems to work well in a system. Hoping he can adapt! Hopefully he gets off some backhanders for y’all. He’s got the best one.

 

[Daeavorn]

Our defense the past few years has been a huge driver of our offense. We are pretty lacking in that regard. We need a new 1RD really badly. Slavin is still good but I would like to see Nikishin hopefully push him down to 2LD.