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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images It’s just a business after all, right? This organization needs a fresh start, and it starts by breaking a few hearts. It starts with GM Chris MacFarland. When he makes the right moves on the battlefield, MacFarland comes off as a genius, but like most of your friends were while playing Call of Duty Zombies, the quick trigger finger would come back to bite th...2025
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• Playoffs Rd 2 Preview: Dallas vs Winnipeg
For the first time since the National Hockey League’s 2021-22 campaign, the Winnipeg Jets are advancing past the first round of the playoffs….and they did it in a once in a lifetime fashion as they stormed back to score two goals in the final minutes of the game to tie things up before cashing in the winner in double overtime. Quite the Game 7 memories for the White Out crowd at the Ca...2025
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• Stanley Cup Playoffs 2025: Stars' Mikko Rantanen among the three stars of the NHL postseason so far

A look at some of the NHL's top producers of the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs...2025
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• NHL Playoff predictions for every 2025 second round series

Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images Let’s make predictions for the second round of the 2025 NHL Playoffs. The 2025 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs have been absolutely sensational thus far, and now we’re getting to the business end of the postseason. It’s very difficult to know how a team will adapt from an 82 game season of one-off matchups and project how they’ll translate that into a deeply ta...2025
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• Mikko Rantanen Definition Of A Playoff Performer

The Dallas Stars are off to Round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs as Mikko Rantanen once again delivers when it matters most....2025
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• Mikko Rantanen Shares Emotional Moment With Former Teammate Gabriel Landeskog After Avalanche’s Playoff Exit vs. Stars
Mikko Rantanen and Gabriel Landeskog, former teammates, shared a touching moment after the Stars eliminated the Avalanche from the playoffs....2025
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• Recap: Rantanen scores hat-trick, Avs implode in 4-2 disaster as Stars advance

Jerome Miron-Imagn Images That didn’t go well. The Colorado Avalanche needed to be perfect for 13 minutes away from advancing to the 2nd round of the playoffs. That was until an old friend turned out the lights. Mikko Rantanen had his second four-point period in the series, scoring a hat-trick and an assist on the go-ahead goal to cap off one of the biggest implosions in Colorado franchis...2025
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• NHL 25: Nichushkin scores twice, Avalanche advance to Second Round

Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images It was another classic Game 7 battle between the Colorado Avalanche and the Dallas Stars. The Colorado Avalanche will advance to the Second Round of the Playoffs with a win over the Dallas Stars. Per NHL 25, Colorado and Dallas will engage in another battle for the ages that saw both teams score twice in the third period. However, with the score tied 2-2 with 2:17 l...2025
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• Recap: Avs rally and force a Game 7 on Saturday night in Dallas

Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images Jared Bednar has another chance to defeat arch-nemesis Pete DeBoer. DENVER, CO — The Dallas Stars will have to fight a little harder if they want to knock the Colorado Avalanche out of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Avs scored a come-from-behind, and 7-4 victory Thursday night to force a pivotal Game 7 against the Stars in their Western Conference First Round se...2025
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• NHL 25: Stars eliminate Avalanche for the second straight season in overtime heartbreak

Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images The Avalanche entered the third period leading 2-1 and ended it with a 4-4 tie. The Dallas Stars will eliminate the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday night at Ball Arena. According to the NHL 25 simulation conducted Tuesday night which had Dallas winning 5-4 in overtime. The Stars scored three goals in the third period to force overtime and it was enough to send them ...2025
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• Stars push Avalanche to brink of elimination with 6-2 smacking

Jerome Miron-Imagn Images Dallas led just nine seconds in, and the Avalanche stand to get eliminated if they don’t push forward. This was a big night for the Colorado Avalanche and Dallas Stars, as just about 76% of teams that win game five go on to win a playoff series in the NHL. With that said, it was the biggest game of the year, and Colorado didn’t rise to the occasion, losing 6-2 in ...2025
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• NHL 25: Avalanche win in overtime to take 3-2 series lead

Jerome Miron-Imagn Images I can’t lie. I was actually on the edge of my seat watching it myself. The Colorado Avalanche will win Game 5 of the Western Conference First Round at American Airlines Center. That’s according to NHL 25, but if the simulation is even remotely accurate, it will be stressful and down to the wire. Colorado won 4-3 in overtime to secure the victory. Jack Drury scored...2025
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• NHL Playoffs contenders and pretenders for 2025 Stanley Cup

Getty Images Which teams are showing up, and who needs to show us more? The first round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs is still underway with us having just over a week of games in the books. The first chance for series to be wrapped up is on Tuesday, with Toronto and Carolina having the opportunity to shut the door and move on. Playoff hockey and the regular season are entirely different...2025
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• Landeskog scores & Avalanche pulverize the Stars to even the series

Photo by Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images The boys needed to fight and scrap, and they did that and then some. Win 4-0 and tie the series at 2-2. DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche were the aggressive, hard-nosed team they needed to be Saturday night at Ball Arena The Avs evened up the best-of-seven series against the Dallas Stars at two games apiece with a 4-0 shut...2025
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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland
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• Saturday Stats: What will the Avs do during the Four Nations break?

Perry Nelson-Imagn Images Two weeks off? I’m about to get so much done! It’s here, it’s really happening - the Four Nations break is upon us and I’m about to have so much more time for activities. I’m finally going to build that plant stand my girlfriend has been bugging me about since pre-season! She’s going to be so happy! Obviously we know what Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Devon Toews...2025
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• MHH Roundtable: Will MacKinnon win the Hart Trophy?

Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Getty Images At the break we take stock of where the Colorado Avalanche stand. After 49 games and a record of 32-14-3, which is good for the top spot in the Central Division, the Colorado Avalanche are in a great position for the stretch run portion of the season. This nine-day break gives everyone a chance to pause and reflect before things get very busy agai...2024
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• Mikko Rantanen provides a not-so-serious update on the contract status of Nazem Kadri
Photo by Dave Sandford/NHLI via Getty Images Moose seems like he knows something no one else does. The Colorado Avalanche has been in full party mode since winning the Stanley Cup a week ago. From the parade on Thursday to partying at various nightclubs every night with the Cup since then, we’ve seen a different side of Avs players as of late. It’s crazy what can happen to a team after win...2022
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• Deadline deals indicate Colorado Avalanche comfortable and confident with roster
Despite the rash of injuries of late, Avs general manager Joe Sakic seems content with the roster he’s built with the NHL playoffs looming just six weeks out | Photo by Dave Sandford/NHLI via Getty Images As the league-wide trade deadline passes, the Avs are largely the same team they were before After the Colorado Avalanche were tied to just about every big name available — from Henrik Lundvis...2020
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"The Hurricanes have a deal in place to trade Mikko Rantanen to the Stars that is contingent on the winger signing an extension in Dallas, sources told ESPN."

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"Avs forward Mikko Rantanen will have his consecutive games streak end at 161 as he'll miss Sunday's game vs."

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"Mikko Rantanen and Nathan MacKinnon are on the precipice of realizing statistical benchmarks that will set them apart for the rest of their NHL careers."

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"Mikko Rantanen was seemingly the only core and team-leading scorer that didn’t dominate in the first round."

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"While he may never rise to the level of his Hart winning season in New Jersey again, Hall does have a style that should fit well with Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen on the first line in Denver."

2020
"A reason for this is because he has spent the bulk of the season paired with Cale Makar for almost 300 even strength minutes together and that they are on the ice primarily with Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen and Gabe Landeskog but Graves will leave the ice in situations with the Avalanche netminder pulled."

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"While it isn’t impressive, the struggles could be explained by the fact that both Gabriel Landeskog and Mikko Rantanen have been out of the lineup for a significant period of time."

2018
"DENVER (AP) Nathan MacKinnon, Erik Johnson and Mikko Rantanen had a goal and an assist each, Jonathan Bernier made 27 saves and the streaking Colorado Avalanche beat the New York Rangers 3-1 on Saturday for their ninth straight win."

2017
"Sure, Mikko Rantanen seems to be having th."

2016
"The Avs, fighting tooth and nail with the Minnesota Wild for the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference, called up 2015 first-round pick Mikko Rantanen from their AHL affiliate in San Antonio."

2015
"The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today that the team has signed forward Mikko Rantanen to a three-year, entry-level contract."

• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland
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• Playoffs Rd 2 Preview: Dallas vs Winnipeg
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• Recap: Rantanen scores hat-trick, Avs implode in 4-2 disaster as Stars advance
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• NHL 25: Avalanche win in overtime to take 3-2 series lead
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• Mikko Rantanen is a PROBLEM for Dallas ... and not in the good way

Photo by Sam Hodde/Getty Images Something has to change for the Stars. Is there something in the water when it comes to Dallas sports? The Cowboys are in a constant state of existential crisis, the Mavericks traded Luka Doncic in exchange for irrelevancy, and now the city’s only playoff bright spot, the Stars, are struggling to work out what’s wrong with their ace player Mikko Rantanen. R...2025
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• How Mikko Rantanen impacts the Stars' Stanley Cup hopes -- in 2025 and well beyond
Long a draft-and-develop team, the trade signaled a philosophical shift, with aftershocks still to come....2025
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• Every NHL Playoffs team ranked by their Stanley Cup chances

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Playoff hockey is the best time of the year, and here’s your full preview for the playoffs. The Stanley Cup Playoffs are upon us, and the close to the 2024-25 season figures to be brimming with emotion. Is this Alex Ovechkin’s last chance to win a cup? Canada has roared back with six of its eight teams in the playoffs. Is Dallas a hockey town now? It’s ...2025
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• Playoff Preview: Familiar face forwards

Photo by Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Let’s take a look at how the Avs and Stars will fare up front! Well, folks, it's officially playoffs time, with only one spot in the bracket settled. As I'm sure you have heard, if you frequent this site, the Colorado Avalanche are set to meet the Dallas Stars for round one in Dallas, TX. Let's dive deep into this matchup...2025
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• Star Russian rookie arrives in stunning move to shake up 2025 NHL Playoffs

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Alexander Nikishin is the real deal, and he’s playoff ready. The Hurricanes simply ran out of time at the NHL trade deadline. The organization was too preoccupied with shipping off Mikko Rantanen that it left little room for the Canes to add talent for a playoff push. As it stood Carolina was a very good team entering the playoffs, but lacked the spark n...2025
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• Playoffs Rd 2 Preview: Dallas vs Winnipeg
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• Recap: Rantanen scores hat-trick, Avs implode in 4-2 disaster as Stars advance
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• Game 7 Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Dallas Stars (6:00 p.m. MT)

Jerome Miron-Imagn Images It’s time for game seven in Dallas! It’s the game day we’ve all been waiting for as the Colorado Avalanche visit the Dallas Stars to settle this best-of-seven, round one series with one final showdown. Can the Avalanche win their first win against Dallas in game seven? Will Dallas once again send Colorado packing? Colorado Avalanche It feels like a relatively sim...2025
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• Game 7 Preview: Do-or-die for both the Avalanche and Stars

Jerome Miron-Imagn Images Will the Avalanche finally best the Stars in a game seven? It's the game day we've all been waiting for as the Colorado Avalanche visit the Dallas Stars to settle this best-of-seven, round one series with one final showdown. Can the Avalanche win their first win against Dallas in game seven? Will Dallas once again send Colorado packing? Colorado Avalanche It feel...2025
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• NHL 25: Nichushkin scores twice, Avalanche advance to Second Round
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• Recap: Avs rally and force a Game 7 on Saturday night in Dallas
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• NHL 25: Stars eliminate Avalanche for the second straight season in overtime heartbreak
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• NHL 25: Avalanche win in overtime to take 3-2 series lead
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• Landeskog scores & Avalanche pulverize the Stars to even the series
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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland
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• Mikko Rantanen Shares Emotional Moment With Former Teammate Gabriel Landeskog After Avalanche’s Playoff Exit vs. Stars
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• Recap: Rantanen scores hat-trick, Avs implode in 4-2 disaster as Stars advance
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• Recap: Avs rally and force a Game 7 on Saturday night in Dallas
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• Stars push Avalanche to brink of elimination with 6-2 smacking
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• Landeskog scores & Avalanche pulverize the Stars to even the series
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• Friday Feels: Powerplay Woes

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images Colorado has to convert on the powerplay to regain the lead over Dallas Well, this series sure hasn’t gone quite as I expected. If you listen to the MHH Lab podcast, you know the Jason Robertson injury shifted my prediction to a 5 game Avs victory lap over the depleted Stars. My logic was simple: without Robertson, the Stars forward depth advantage was no lon...2025
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• Avs blow third period lead again, lose in overtime as Dallas takes series lead

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images 6 power plays with 0 conversions. The Colorado Avalanche are a mess. It’s been back-to-back overtime games, blown third-period leads, and tragic finishes for the Colorado Avalanche. There’s no way around it. This was as bad as it gets. Despite the Avalanche beginning the overtime period with 3:21 left on the power play, they failed to convert, as they did all...2025
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• NHL 25 Prediction: Avalanche shuts out Dallas 3-0 in Game One

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images The Stars had more shots on goal, but Colorado was the only team that scored. Both teams also went scoreless on the power play. If NHL 25 is correct, the Colorado Avalanche will win Game 1 of their series against the Dallas Stars on Saturday night. The Avalanche shut out Dallas 3-0 as Nathan MacKinnon scored two goals, Cale Makar added two assists, and Macke...2025
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• Sources: Rantanen to Stars if new deal reached
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• Ryan Graves has found a home with the Colorado Avalanche
Photo by David Kirouac/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The NHL’s leader in +/- offers many contributions for the Avalanche One of the more interesting storylines outside of Cale Makar’s rookie brilliance and Valeri Nichuskin’s resurgence is the emergence of Ryan Graves as a staple on the blue line for the Colorado Avalanche. The tale of how Graves arrived in Colorado is well-known. Brought ...2020
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• MacKinnon and Rantanen are focused on repeating, not scoring
Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports It’s Mile High Hockey Lab time, and we just released our 21st installment! Mikko Rantanen and Nathan MacKinnon are on the precipice of realizing statistical benchmarks that will set them apart for the rest of their NHL careers. For Mikko Rantanen, that means scoring 50 goals in the regular season. He has 48 goals and nine games to reach that number and beyond. M...2023
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• Nathan MacKinnon is the favorite for the 2020 Hart Trophy
Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports It’s hard to believe but Nathan MacKinnon is getting even better Two seasons ago, Nathan MacKinnon became the superstar the Colorado Avalanche knew he was destined to be. In his breakout season, MacKinnon racked up 39 goals and 97 points in only 74 games while dragging his Avalanche team to the playoffs - only a year after the disastrous 22-win season. He show...2020
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• Recap: Wild take down Avalanche in controversial and rough affair
Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images It was not a good game for the Avs and the stripes. Ugh. That’s all that needs to be said about this one. With a chance to go to the top of the Central Division for the first time since November, the Colorado Avalanche laid down and suffered a 4-2 loss to the hands of their bitter rivals, the Minnesota Wild. In what was a subpar performance, th...2023
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• Avalanche send Mikko Rantanen to Hurricanes, receive Martin Necas in blockbuster trade

Avalanche, Hurricanes and Blackhawks agree to massive three-team deal...2025
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• Colorado Avalanche recall former first round pick Martin Kaut
Martin Kaut is called up from the Colorado Eagles Tuesday morning, the Colorado Avalanche recalled Martin Kaut from the AHL Eagles. The move comes less than 12 hours after the team lost star winger Mikko Rantanen to a serious upper body injury. Selected 16th overall in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, Kaut has spent the last two seasons in Loveland playing for the Colorado Eagles. After a decent AHL roo...2020
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• Preview: Avalanche, Blues begin round two
Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Colorado’s quest for the Stanley Cup continues against the Blues. The Colorado Avalanche and St. Louis Blues will begin round two of the Stanley Cup Playoffs tonight at Ball Arena in Denver, CO. The Avalanche made quick work of the Nashville Predators in round one and hope to stretch their winning streak well into the second round. The Blues ...2022
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• Playoffs Rd 2 Preview: Dallas vs Winnipeg
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• Mikko Rantanen Shares Emotional Moment With Former Teammate Gabriel Landeskog After Avalanche’s Playoff Exit vs. Stars
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• Mikko Rantanen carries Stars into second round, when they could get back Heiskanen and Robertson

DALLAS (AP) — Mikko Rantanen carried the Dallas Stars past his former team in the first round of the NHL playoffs, punctuated with a hat trick that was part of his historic four-point third period in Game 7....2025
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• Mikko Rantanen has 4-point 3rd period for Stars to unbelievably knock former team out of playoffs

DALLAS (AP) — Mikko Rantanen figures he would have left the room in disbelief had someone told him at the beginning of this season that he would score a hat track in a Game 7 against Colorado....2025
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• Rantanen hat trick rallies Stars past Avs in G7
Mikko Rantanen scored three goals in the third period, and the Dallas Stars utilized a furious rally to advance to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, defeating the Colorado Avalanche 4-2 in Game 7 on Saturday night at American Airlines Center....2025
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• Game 7 Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Dallas Stars (6:00 p.m. MT)
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• Avs blow third period lead again, lose in overtime as Dallas takes series lead
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• Star Russian rookie arrives in stunning move to shake up 2025 NHL Playoffs
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs Toronto Maple Leafs (5:00 p.m.)

Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Getty Images It’s a Colorado Avalanche gameday! Following a strong performance in an emotional overtime victory over Mikko Rantanen and the Dallas Stars Sunday afternoon, the Colorado Avalanche will embark on their final Eastern Conference road trip of the season, which will take them through Eastern Canada. The Avs will face the Maple Leafs in Toronto to star...2025
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• Preview: Avs look to keep rolling into Ontario as road trip begins against Maple Leafs

Photo by Andrew Lahodynskyj/NHLI via Getty Images The Avs enter this trip with a nine-game point streak. Following a strong performance in an emotional overtime victory over Mikko Rantanen and the Dallas Stars Sunday afternoon, the Colorado Avalanche will embark on their final Eastern Conference road trip of the season, which will take them through Eastern Canada. The Avs will face the Map...2025
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• Details Emerge in Speculated Rantanen Trade to Dallas Stars

The post Details Emerge in Speculated Rantanen Trade to Dallas Stars appeared first on NHL Trade Talk. With speculation growing that Mikko Rantanen is being traded to the Dallas Stars, how did this trade come to fruition? The post Details Emerge in Speculated Rantanen Trade to Dallas Stars appeared first on NHL Trade Talk....2025
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• Should the Calgary Flames trade for Mikko Rantanen or stay the course?

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• 4 Nations Face-Off: Preview & Discussion Thread
With the majority of National Hockey League players preparing to enjoy a mid-season break, 92 of them will instead be heading to Montreal & Boston to take part in the NHL & NHLPA’s 4 Nations Face-Off tournament. Teams representing four of the world’s hockey-craziest nations, the 7 game schedule will allow the top players from Canada, Finland, Sweden, & the United States to show off the...2025
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• Brannstrom Could Become Key Part of Miller Trade for the Rangers
The J.T. Miller trade was the big one last week in the NHL. With the Mikko Rantanen blockbuster on Jan. 24 shocking the hockey world and the Miller move the…...2025
• Trevor Connelly’s Future with Golden Knights Could Be in Play at Trade Deadline
Trade deadline season has already begun with the shocking trades between teams making blockbuster swings left and right. Whether it be Mikko Rantanen heading east to the Carolina Hurricanes or…...2025
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