Rantanen vs Necas points race to end of season.

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Did they? Or did Rantanen sign a contract that allowed him to be traded?
That same contract allows him to perform at any level he wants since it has already been signed. How come you are "sticking up" for the Avs/Canes but not Rantanen even though both sides executed their perfectly legal rights?

It's so mind-boggling to me that people in NA think doing whatever you want with one of the best professional in his field is perfectly reasonable since he is under contract but that same professional leveraging his abilities is "acting like a child".
 


This whole situation is doing wonders for us in the "Centers are the most important position in hockey" crowd. Mikko? Necas? MacKinnon is hardly noticing a difference on the stat sheet.

I'm a pretty big Chris MacFarland hater, but I have to admit he hit it out of the park with the Rantanen situation. Even knowing Mikko ends up in the Division, the Avs are so much better balanced with Necas/Drury/Lindgren than they would have been with just Mikko.

No team with proper centers should be giving wingers 10+ million a year. Success in the NHL is down the middle, on defense, and in net. Wingers are accessories.
 
Nah. Cope. Avs screwed over both Rantanen and Carolina.
Wrong again. Explain how the Avs screwed over Rantanen by doing something that a contract Rantanen signed allowed them to do.

That same contract allows him to perform at any level he wants since it has already been signed. How come you are "sticking up" for the Avs/Canes but not Rantanen even though both sides executed their perfectly legal rights?
It does allow Rantanen to perform at any level he wants. It just makes him look very selfish for quitting on an entire team while they are all competing for something. People get put in hard situations all the time. How you act in those situations defines the person that you are.
 
Wrong again. Explain how the Avs screwed over Rantanen by doing something that a contract Rantanen signed allowed them to do.


It does allow Rantanen to perform at any level he wants. It just makes him look very selfish for quitting on an entire team while they are all competing for something. People get put in hard situations all the time. How you act in those situations defines the person that you are.
If you don't get it already, you never will. I'm not going to keep repeating myself.

This whole situation is doing wonders for us in the "Centers are the most important position in hockey" crowd. Mikko? Necas? MacKinnon is hardly noticing a difference on the stat sheet.

I'm a pretty big Chris MacFarland hater, but I have to admit he hit it out of the park with the Rantanen situation. Even knowing Mikko ends up in the Division, the Avs are so much better balanced with Necas/Drury/Lindgren than they would have been with just Mikko.

No team with proper centers should be giving wingers 10+ million a year. Success in the NHL is down the middle, on defense, and in net. Wingers are accessories.
Ovi is an accessory, got it
 
Wrong again. Explain how the Avs screwed over Rantanen by doing something that a contract Rantanen signed allowed them to do.

Player walks in free agency - "that's his right, he's earned it"

Team drafts, develops, extends a player for 5 years, then trades him because he wants to much - "They screwed him over!"
 
Ovi is an accessory, got it

Yes, he is. A very very good one, but an accessory.

1 cup in 20 seasons - a beacon of success. But hey, he scores a ton of goals, so he's got that going for him! People will talk for decades about how he's one of the best goal scorers in the history in the NHL, and they'll be right. And yet he has a single cup win in 20 years.

Meanwhile his counterpart Sidney Crosby, a center and another face of the franchise player, has three times that.
 

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