Mikko Rantanen Appreciation Thread

[Jaska]

Finding chemistry with Hintz. Mikko 1+3, Roope 2+2 today.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Finding chemistry with Hintz. Mikko 1+3, Roope 2+2 today.

Are you in the wrong forum?

 

[katfude]

Looks like some lost Finn looking to polish the Moose knob based on post history.

 

[AegonLeConqueror]

Moose > the Avs

Moose >>> Avs

 

[illegitimate]

left alone in the seam, absolute snipe
falls down, puck goes off a defender's skate
empty netter

mikko rantanen

 

[TruePowerSlave]

What a f***ing show in the last few games by the Moose. That's how you do it.

 

[smakki]

falls down, puck goes off a defender's skate

Got tripped by goalie and still controlled the puck even falling.

 

[The Merchant]

Sure makes you regret believing the grass is always greener when the exact thing you became accustomed to suddenly happens to you. Mikko is a playoff gamebreaker and is deserving of that reputation, especially after tonight. Congrats to him for proving CMac wrong.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Sure makes you regret believing the grass is always greener when the exact thing you became accustomed to suddenly happens to you. Mikko is a playoff gamebreaker and is deserving of that reputation, especially after tonight. Congrats to him for proving CMac wrong.

This was my biggest worry in losing Mikko. Not necessarily him ending up in Dallas and eliminating us. But losing an elite talent is losing an elite talent. Necas is good. But his best just doesn't compete with Mikko's. Not even close.

 

[The Moops]

f*** Mikko

 

[LaMasquerade]

Sure makes you regret believing the grass is always greener when the exact thing you became accustomed to suddenly happens to you. Mikko is a playoff gamebreaker and is deserving of that reputation, especially after tonight. Congrats to him for proving CMac wrong.

Not only tonight.. basically all four nights that really really matter (even though Avs won some of those).

 

[Plural]

Nice to see Mikko doing well. Gave some shouts to his former mates. Class act. Thanks or Avs also for being reasonable and professional with him. Classy org. and classy guy.

 

[Freudian]

I have no hard feelings towards Rantanen. He wanted to get paid in line with what the market will pay. Avs balked at the amount and didn't want to risk him walking for nothing.

He certainly showed his worth to Stars in this series. Avs could and should have done a much better job against him the last two games.

 

[John Mandalorian]

There are a lot of obnoxious jack*sses on this board who were banging the drum to trade him. Now these neutered cowards are blameshifting to Bednar. It’s a pathetic playbook. Why do we talk to each other when so many obnoxious jack*sses on this board give us no reasons to listen to each other. Pathetic.

@LOFIN You took all the slings and arrows from this obnoxious crowd.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

There are a lot of obnoxious jack*sses on this board who were banging the drum to trade him. Now these neutered cowards are blameshifting to Bednar. It’s a pathetic playbook. Why do we talk to each other when so many obnoxious jack*sses on this board give us no reasons to listen to each other. Pathetic.

@LOFIN You took all the slings and arrows from this obnoxious crowd.

You forget... we were blaming Bednar for not putting Mikko on the second line as well.

 

[Alienblood]

There are a lot of obnoxious jack*sses on this board who were banging the drum to trade him. Now these neutered cowards are blameshifting to Bednar. It’s a pathetic playbook. Why do we talk to each other when so many obnoxious jack*sses on this board give us no reasons to listen to each other. Pathetic.

@LOFIN You took all the slings and arrows from this obnoxious crowd.

change your tampon

 

[katfude]

change your tampon

man when alienblood is calling you out for being pissy, hoo boy

 

[Grigowski]

Mikko is a playoff gamebreaker

Thats great, but where was that "gamebreaker" in all those games 7 in the past, or when we went out in Round 2, or last year against his new team.....

He had the game of his live on Saturday, i get it. And it sucks major to get a big "f*** you". But in general the AVS not lost this series because of Mikko Rantanen, just to be clear.

 

[ahmedou]

Mikko Rantanen Appreciation Thread

 

[Ararana]

I will always love Mikko, they drafted him, developed him, and won a cup with him. The guy wanted to stay, badly, but management knew paying a winger that much money was a mistake. They almost got it right.

Unfortunately, management failed to get a proper long term 2C in return for Mikko and somehow traded him to the one team that couldn't extend him and flipped him mid season to our biggest rival. There's not really much the Avs could have done on the latter, Carolina had the cap space and they were in the East. I love to shit on cMac because he's a failure of a GM, but no way anyone could have seen that coming.

 

[badi]

The guy sometimes coast during the long NHL season
BUT
Come playoff time he is a beast or a Moose
You do not get players like that often
That s why he had to stay

 

[The Merchant]

Thats great, but where was that "gamebreaker" in all those games 7 in the past, or when we went out in Round 2, or last year against his new team.....

He had the game of his live on Saturday, i get it. And it sucks major to get a big "f*** you". But in general the AVS not lost this series because of Mikko Rantanen, just to be clear.

Last year's Stars series is the only one you could argue he underperformed in a playoff series throughout his entire career (still had 5 in 7, but was -7). He's been an absolute PPG monster otherwise. And then he goes on the become the dagger against the Avs and played well enough to nearly end it in 6 for them single-handedly. Take away his production and the Stars probably do lose the series.

How complacent he was getting in the regular season will always be the argument, I get it. But now that nearly all of CMac's galaxy braining has backfired, Mikko is going to remain the everlasting "what if" the the back of Avs fans minds. That in an of itself is pretty f***ed up.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Last year's Stars series is the only one you could argue he underperformed in a playoff series throughout his entire career (still had 5 in 7, but was -7). He's been an absolute PPG monster otherwise. And then he goes on the become the dagger against the Avs and played well enough to nearly end it in 6 for them single-handedly. Take away his production and the Stars probably do lose the series.

How complacent he was getting in the regular season will always be the argument, I get it. But now that nearly all of CMac's galaxy braining has backfired, Mikko is going to remain the everlasting "what if" the the back of Avs fans minds. That in an of itself is pretty f***ed up.

And it's one thing somewhat when it it's 2nd line/middle 6 player who has a bit of a cult following. This happened with one of the best and most important players in the franchises history.

We'll see if this was the move for the club long term. It opened up some cap flexibility longer term than signing Mikko at 12. But all of Cmacs following moves were as win now as humanly possible, aged the team and absolutely gutted our asset pool... Idk its really hard to see the positives in losing Mikko right now.

 

[Chileiceman]

I don't understand the people who were booing him in Denver. He didn't whien his way out of town. They just couldn't come to a deal. CMac didn't want to pay him what he though he should be paid. I don't think either party was being unreasonable.

The odds of things playing out the way that they did after the trade are like 1 in 10 million. Now we're stuck with him in the division.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

I don't understand the people who were booing him in Denver. He didn't whien his way out of town. They just couldn't come to a deal. CMac didn't want to pay him what he though he should be paid. I don't think either party was being unreasonable.

The odds of things playing out the way that they did after the trade are like 1 in 10 million. Now we're stuck with him in the division.

The only player I ever held a grudge over was Duchene. He quit on us.

Stastny could have handled his messaging better but didn't do anything outside of his rights. Same goes for Mikko. I never boo'd Stastny and wouldn't think of booing Moose either.

I think boo'ing has just become part of the fan presentation these days.