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Roster Building XXV: Winning Rantanen's Undying Love

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FreshSeabass said:
Ok so he pockets an extra 4 million doing this deal with Dallas over Colorado from my rough calculations. i guess thats worth it?!
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I think he thought Colorado would continue to negotiate like they did with Landeskog. Even with the potential threat of a trade, I'm guessing Rantanen/his agent never believed Colorado would go through with it.

They screwed that up and suddenly Rantanen is looking for a new home for the rest of his career.
 
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I know we are waiting on the return for Rantanen, but with hindsight being 20/20, since we know our front office had the decision of choosing between Elias Pettersson (who is signed to a long term contract), and Mikko Rantanen (only 1 year left), I think it would've been better to pick EP40.

I understand why they picked Rantanen from a point producing perspective. He was the more consistent 100 point producing forward (not with us though), but the center depth we could've had improved with EP40 is now way more appealing since we were forced to trade Rantanen.
 
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Chrispy said:
I think this means Rantanen realized his agent's idea of his worth wasn't happening in Colorado or Dallas, so he would be hoping for a huge number on July 1 or take one of the Carolina/Dallas offer.

And the lack of state income tax comes into play.
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It's more than that. Our $12.6 is equivalent to their $12M and it's cheaper to live in the Triangle versus Dallas.

btw: my wife just said if he was such a buddy of Aho he would have been at his wedding this summer too.
 
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Sigurd said:
I know we are waiting on the return for Rantanen, but with hindsight being 20/20, since we know our front office had the decision of choosing between Elias Pettersson (who is signed to a long term contract), and Mikko Rantanen (only 1 year left), I think it would've been better to pick EP40.

I understand why they picked Rantanen from a point producing perspective. He was the more consistent 100 point producing forward (not with us though), but the center depth we could've had improved with EP40 is now way more appealing since we were forced to trade Rantanen.
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In a vacuum, I agree. But what we don't know is how much more Pettersson would have cost over Rantanen.
 
Sigurd said:
I know we are waiting on the return for Rantanen, but with hindsight being 20/20, since we know our front office had the decision of choosing between Elias Pettersson (who is signed to a long term contract), and Mikko Rantanen (only 1 year left), I think it would've been better to pick EP40.

I understand why they picked Rantanen from a point producing perspective. He was the more consistent 100 point producing forward (not with us though), but the center depth we could've had improved with EP40 is now way more appealing since we were forced to trade Rantanen.
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Not with how EP has played
 
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Don't want EP....SN panel suggested that he doesn't work hard/not committed to his craft (Vancouver guy said that). He would not fit here either.
Sigurd said:
I know we are waiting on the return for Rantanen, but with hindsight being 20/20, since we know our front office had the decision of choosing between Elias Pettersson (who is signed to a long term contract), and Mikko Rantanen (only 1 year left), I think it would've been better to pick EP40.

I understand why they picked Rantanen from a point producing perspective. He was the more consistent 100 point producing forward (not with us though), but the center depth we could've had improved with EP40 is now way more appealing since we were forced to trade Rantanen.
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Chrispy said:
In a vacuum, I agree. But what we don't know is how much more Pettersson would have cost over Rantanen.
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That's true. Especially since Vancouver was being very demanding with the returns for even Miller. Not too unreasonable to assume there was at least one bigger + to Necas than what we traded for Rantanen (Morrow maybe?).
Blueline Bomber said:
Not with how EP has played
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Yeah, although at least he has the excuse of a toxic locker room this season due to the very bad blood between him and Miller. What's Rantanen's excuse with us? Personally, I think he never intended to sign with us long term (based on what we offered and him signing with Dallas) which made him mentally checked out and he had little motivation.
 
u really think the Stars are giving up ,
Chrispy said:
They are getting a significant player or players off Dallas's roster, not prospects.
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do u really think the Stars are giving us 1 of Robertson , hintz or johnson , anyone else is scrap garbage
 
chaz4hockey said:
Don't want EP....SN panel suggested that he doesn't work hard/not committed to his craft (Vancouver guy said that). He would not fit here either.
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Well, that's major solace for us not trading for EP40 then.

Hopefully the return for Rantanen is pretty good, but I'm kind of skeptical. I think it will be more quantity than quality.
 
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If we get stank and borque plus? (P
Bish aslo please) not sorry that's BETTER for us than rantanen. WAY better. Dallas is the team in the west i follow and I've wanted stank for a while. Fact check me I've mentioned it here before.
 
my college kid saw somewhere that it's stankoven and 2 firsts. grain of salt and all

edit to add - good job, my boy.
 
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