What are your thoughts on the Rantanen trade?

[WarriorOfGandhi]

If I'm begging for Sidney Sweeney to show up anywhere wearing a French maid outfit it's not gonna be at your door.

It's gonna be at centre ice taking Mitts spot as 2C.

More like 2DD, amirite

 

[CobraAcesS]

Very important question for all of you guys....

Has Necas even fallen once since he joined the Avs? Seriously.

One tire blown on the wall in the defensive zone reversing I believe. So once, other than the collision where he was lucky he didn't get a interference penalty for being bigger.

Yes I've been paying attention very closely to this without trying lol.

 

[AllAboutAvs]

One tire blown on the wall in the defensive zone reversing I believe. So once, other than the collision where he was lucky he didn't get a interference penalty for being bigger.

Yes I've been paying attention very closely to this without trying lol.

So only once......Fantastic!!!!
Won the trade!!!!

 

[CobraAcesS]

So only once......Fantastic!!!!
Won the trade!!!!

Yeah it's like .5F/60 to like 8F/60 lol. Nothing has changed there in NC either.

 

[AllAboutAvs]

Yeah it's like .5F/60 to like 8F/60 lol. Nothing has changed there in NC either.

Not surprising.

 

[Snow Arc]

MacKinnon, Makar, Rantanen.

Choose two.

The Avs chose. Sucks, but it is what it is.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Two years ago I was begging for Byram to get traded. It happened.

This year I was begging for a Rantanen trade and a retool with a look towards competing in the future. Rantanen is gone.

This is my universe. Y'all just living in it.

Why don't you think me up one of those jelly donuts with sprinkles on top while you're at it.

[edit.. Only fans of a team that have been honored to have the Moose play for them can understand the desire for the NHL to officially track falls per 60 not involving player contact.]

 

[Avsfan1921]

Two years ago I was begging for Byram to get traded. It happened.

This year I was begging for a Rantanen trade and a retool with a look towards competing in the future. Rantanen is gone.

This is my universe. Y'all just living in it.

We won’t be happy until you will Brewer into an Avs uniform.

 

[EdAVSfan]

Why don't you think me up one of those jelly donuts with sprinkles on top while you're at it.

[edit.. Only fans of a team that have been honored to have the Moose play for them can understand the desire for the NHL to officially track falls per 60 not involving player contact.]

When I die, I wanna come back just like you.

So do you guys think the Avs will make a move before the 4 nations, or only after?

 

[a mangy Meowth]

We won’t be happy until you will Brewer into an Avs uniform.

Will any Brewer do?

 

[CobraAcesS]

When I die, I wanna come back just like you.

So do you guys think the Avs will make a move before the 4 nations, or only after?

My prediction was they'd pull the trigger or not based on Mitts play this week. If he keeps playing well, maybe they prioritize the D. If he doesn't maybe they prioritize the center position, or both.

I bet they'd like to get the moves done ASAP.

 

[Avsfan1921]

Will any Brewer do?

I dunno, you’d have to confer with @NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS to be sure.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

When I die, I wanna come back just like you.

So do you guys think the Avs will make a move before the 4 nations, or only after?

*LMFAO* No...no you don't.

However, if reincarnation is a thing... I hope that once we all have lived our most perfect life, Buddah winks at the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and poof... you get one last life beginning as a kitten in my wife's household. Your reward for living the perfect life, is to have the purrfect life of luxary and babying.

Seriously though, I think if the move was ready to be made it would have happened already. My read is that CMac has adopted the WaffleHouse hours and is currently open for business 24 hours a day 365 days a year (except leap year...if it was one of those he'd be open 366 days).

The hangup is on the other side. I feel there are still too many GMs unwilling to say they are out of the race, this early in the season. Yes, we all know they are out of the race. But they will not publically acknowledge it via trades until probably after the Four Nations.

I figure, if I've got a piece I'm considering selling at the deadline. I could offer him up right now and get a reasonable return on him. But what happens if someone gets hurt at the Four Nations Tournament? Would this guy I'm holding on to get a better return then?

I think sellers want to wait as long as reasonable possible to ensure they have as many available suitors as possible. That's why even if a GM is willing to move early, you almost essentially have to overpay a bit to get a deal done early. I think our move will come after as a result. It's not because CMac doesn't want to go now, but either the price is astronomical right now or the other GMs simply aren't ready to dance. It always takes two willing partners.