Mikko Rantanen's Controversial Trade and Playoff Success Story

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00:00Now let's hear him about beating his old team, the Avalanche.

00:04Well, I don't know.

00:05You know, it's like I've said before, when I got traded, it's business.

00:09And, you know, obviously things happened not the way I expected it to happen.

00:16But it's business, like I've said many times.

00:19And I don't know, revenge.

00:22You know, I'm just happy to win another team in the playoffs.

00:26You know, it doesn't matter who it is, you know.

00:28So I'm just happy to be on the winning side and move on here.

00:33Yeah, he's lying through his teeth.

00:36So let's get real here.

00:37The best part of the whole story was when he told Carolina to F off.

00:41I'm not signing here and living in the woods.

00:44I'm out of here.

00:45I don't want to be here.

00:47So they traded him.

00:48That's the reality.

00:49I told you when I stayed in that hotel and I called games at that dump, I was like, oh, my God.

00:54Literally, you can ask anyone that did the games with me.

00:57Like, Kincaid, the producers, I used to sit there and complain and be like, God, does this place suck?

01:02Like, what are we going to do for a day here?

01:06I have to drink or something.

01:08It's so boring here.

01:10But he wanted out of there so fast.

01:11And he ended up in Dallas tax-free.

01:14And he got a fat extension.

01:15He signed a deal for, like, eight years and, like, $500 billion.

01:19So now he's playing on this team.

01:21And then what happens?

01:22They go.

01:23Because Carolina's still really good.

01:24But it still sucks there.

01:25Okay?

01:26And they're going to lose at some point.

01:28You know they're going to lose.

01:29They always do.

01:29And Dallas is playing in the Western Semi.

01:32And he's loving life and paying no taxes.

01:34He got the best of both worlds.

01:36He got out of there.

01:37And he got a deal to play for a team.

01:39And they gave him a bank.

01:40And he doesn't have to pay taxes.

01:42Is there anything better than that?

01:44No.

01:45Not a bad situation for him at all.

01:47And now he has a lasting Game 7 legacy against his old team.

01:53And I didn't realize Colorado's been losing Game 7s forever now, too.

01:57They got big problems.

01:58You talk about Harden having problems in Game 7s.

02:02The Colorado Avalanche, they got problems in Game 7s.

02:06They never win them.

02:08Is that right?

02:087 straight they've lost?

02:10Yes.

02:107 straight.

02:11Yes.

02:12I believe that might even be 8.

02:13That might have been 8 on Saturday night.

02:15You lose.

02:16Winnipeg will play Dallas now.

02:18Dallas is the favorite.

02:19Minus $1.66.

02:21Winnipeg plus $1.38.

02:23They will play Game 1 of their series Wednesday night in Winnipeg.

02:29Winnipeg has the home ice for that series.

02:32Those are tiny morsels, those odds.

02:35So, that's very sketchy, scary stuff.

02:39Picking a winner there.

02:40I'm leaning Dallas.

02:42I think, obviously, after what I just saw, the Jets can beat anybody.

02:46So, I have no idea whatsoever.

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