The public perception of how the Colorado Avalanche did in the Mikko Rantanen trade has already swung back and forth.

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Of all of the players the Avalanche picked before the NHL trade deadline, three of them are unrestricted free agents. Brock ...

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Mikko Rantanen was one of them ... Landeskog was scratched with Miles Wood replacing Ross Colton. Jared Bednar isn't going to give many details when it comes to lineup decisions or injuries ...

Dallas Stars right wing Mikko Rantanen (96) tries to set up a play as Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar (8) trials behind during the first period of Game 1 of an opening round playoff game ...

Dallas Stars right wing Mikko Rantanen (96) celebrates his goal with center Roope Hintz (24) during the second period in Game 5 of a first-round NHL hockey playoff series against the Colorado ...

The Colorado Avalanche made their bed with Mikko Rantanen. Now, they have to lie in it with their once-promising season over thanks to a Rantanen hat trick for the Dallas Stars in Saturday night's ...

The Colorado Avalanche are never going to live the disastrous Mikko Rantanen trade down. Especially not after Rantanen's epic Game 7 hat trick for the Dallas Stars to eliminate his former team on ...

DALLAS — Mikko Rantanen doesn’t have a home yet. Not a permanent one, at least. He found somewhere to stay for the rest of the Dallas Stars season — however long that lasts — but some 45 ...

But that wasn’t who Mikko Rantanen was in the Colorado Avalanche locker room. He was Mikko. Not every hockey nickname sticks inside the dressing room. Sure, Erik Johnson is EJ. Devon Toews is Tazer.

DALLAS — Roope Hintz jumped in Mikko Rantanen’s arms to celebrate their goal and yelled something that made his countryman’s smile grow even wider. But what was said will go down as an ...