Mikko Rantanen: Now the shocking scenario was echoing

NHL:n The expiration of the transfer window is less than two weeks away, and Carolina Hurricanes still has not managed to turn the extension of the Finnish star For Mikko Rantanen.

Already when the superstar arrived in Raleigh, it was known that Hurricanes and GM Eric Tulsky took a great risk Necas–Rantanen store. The Finnish agreement is at the end of the current season, and there is no certainty about his desire to continue in Carolina.

The weeks have been rolling and the contract news has not been heard. Rantanen’s grip on the new company has also been sluggish. The NHL’s insider has already begun to speculate with a new trade that would send a superstar out of Carolina before the March transfer limit.

Insider reporter Elliotte Friedman It is certain that a long bunch of league top teams is ready to acquire Rantanen for the rest of the season as a “loan player”. Friedman is considering possible decal patterns 32 Thoughts -podcastissaan.

If Hurricanes really wants to trade Rantanen, it can hold half of his salary if necessary, Friedman recalls.

As Chicago Blackhawks already took 50 percent of Rantanen’s over 9 million roads in the previous three club giant stores, there would be only about $ 2.3 million to pay.

When Hurricanes believes that a long -term agreement with a Finn anymore would benefit this borrowing both sides of the trade. Then Carolina would not be completely empty and the team that acquires Rantanen would get one of the biggest superstars in the league for the rest of the season.

“Then many would be interested in him and I think they would be good teams. I mean Vegas, Dallas, Winnipeg, Florida, Tamma and Toronto, ”Friedman estimates.

Ultimately, it is about whether Hurricanes is ready to trade Rantanen and where other clubs are ready to give up.

“Who wouldn’t do what to do to get him at 2.3 million? In that situation, every team thinks that if we do not do it, then someone else will do it, ”Friedman predicts.