Let's try to be a little realistic. That isn't gonna happen any time soon
Week of No Mercy for Mercenary Moose Mon vs CHI Tues MIN Fri CGY Sun vs DAL
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It will probably ease up after today and especially after this season, hopefully after we eliminate Dallas.
We'll see. I think if he does much of anything in the playoffs and Dallas eliminates us, people will turn on him. People are so fickle.
Colorado had better come to play today. You know it’s gonna be rocking
It's fine if people turn on him, he's playing for the Stars now. I hope he gets a loud cheer tonight for all he did for this team and organization, and after that he's treated like the rest of the Stars
Oh yeah, you know the Stars fans will be loud as hell. Can’t wait.
Yeah maybe cheer for the video montage if there is one. Boo when he touches the puck. Laugh when he falls down. Cry when he scores.
I was/am supposed to go to the game today, and, of course, I woke up at 5am with some kind of stomach bug. So, likely giving my ticket to my daughter's boyfriend now.
Go to the game, find Mikko and give him a huge hug.
Thanks Dad, I’ll be over to pick it up shortly.
I was thinking about our playoff position as well as the beginning of our year with Georgie in net...I was guessing he cost us at least 10 points give or take.
If Georgiev hadn't been as bad as he was, and instead treaded water at an acceptable 0.900 level it's probable that we'd still be stuck with him on the roster as there wouldn't have been such urgency to make an in-season move. Silver linings...
The biggest problem here is that 12 million in Dallas with no taxes is like 12.7 to 13.5 million in Colorado if you factor in the length of the contracts with taxes on all eight of those years, I believe. I think we can agree that Rantanen wanted 13 million dollars from the Avs and even though Mikko is 90-95% of a 13 million dollar player, he isn't better than MacKinnon in any right and why the Avs went 11.5 to 11.7 with him. By all sounds of it, him or his agent weren't willing to take a Stanley Cup discount, which he has every right to conduct, but Avs have every right to surprise him with a trade to a location he hated (or his GF hated).
Toews is the only Av who has taken a discount in CO... I was all for trading Mikko in the right scenario(which as of now looks to be the case), but Mikko seems to be the scapegoat for getting his worth.
Kadri was willing to take SCF discount to stay with us, and with hindsight, his contract is looking overpaid, but underappreciated. I feel that Avs are the ones which lowball a lot and won't ever overpay; Grubauer, Rantanen, Kuemper, Trenin, Burakovsky, Compher, and others. That is why we don't truly have a bad contract on the team, but that is why we have lost a ton of talent since 2022 as well. Mikko can get his worth, he has all the freedom for that, but I don't really see how we're "scapegoating" when his agent has been shady AF in his tactics. He can say all the "I wanted to stay, I wanted to negotiate, I wanted to take less" comments in the world, but his actions really showed a different story (which could have been his agent). I don't have any hate for him, he did what he wanted to do, I just wish he stayed in Carolina and didn't go to Dallas because he could be John Dillinger 2.0.
I say scapegoating because when other guys took market value they didn't get villainized. But also I would say the Avs also bring on a lot of this stuff themselves. I mean they were like 15mins from losing their damn captain to FA.
I think Mikko certainly was looking for a payday and his bluff 100% got called when asked about signing in Carolina. But the Avs final offer being 11.75, which they knew Mikko would reject, and then immediately moving him tells me they didn't want to keep Mikko. I think Mikko would've chosen 11.75 here over 12 in Dallas if he believed he'd actually have been traded imo.
