Was there a four-team preferred list for Mikko Rantanen?
Nick Alberga: David Pagnotta on Mikko Rantanen’s preferred four-team list, and a few teams who were interested, and the Carolina Hurricanes preferring the Dallas Stars offer over the Toronto Maple Leafs offer.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
“I’m gonna try to clear up among the cloudiness. So there was a four-team preferred list. There have been 4 teams that, yeah, these are our top 4 teams that we’d wish to go to. And my understanding is clearly, Dallas, Florida, Toronto, and Edmonton.
Those were the 4 preferred team lists, and I can confirm with 1,000,000% certainty that he was willing to check in Toronto, and he was willing to check in Edmonton.
And I do know there’s been a whole lot of crazy misinformation that’s, I don’t even wish to say misinformation, because no person’s really gotten the entire story, and it’s bits and pieces. Like I used to be told over the weekend, that, I mean, there was some murkiness. Was Toronto? Weren’t they? Would he have waited till the summer? So I got clarity finally, and yesterday I got clarity on Edmonton.
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But there have been other teams that were in the combo, and there have been other teams he would have considered, like Vegas, for instance. So I believe the four-team list, more so than anything, was these are my top 4 preferred destinations. Figure that out, after which if any individual else is available in the combo, like a Vegas, then we’ll consider it.
LA entered the combo. They put a decent offer, was my understanding, involving a current roster player, but he wasn’t willing to sign there. So moot point.
Edmonton, he would have entered those, those discussions because they were on his list, but that they had no assets to trade. So the trade discussions, they never really evolved, to not the extent of Toronto, and positively not of Dallas.
After the Marner situation was, was clear, Carolina wanted Matthew Knies in a package, and each sense I got was Toronto didn’t want to do this. So that they shifted to the 2 prospects, the 2 first, and I consider there was something else in there. But they liked Dallas’s offer. They wanted a proven guy on the NHL level in Logan Stankoven, they usually went with that one.”
Mikko Rantanen said he didn’t have an inventory of teams when he was traded to the Carolina Hurricanes
NHL.com: Mikko Rantanen said he didn’t have an inventory of teams he’d play for when he was dealt to the Carolina Hurricanes
“I saw some things were said that I had an inventory of teams ready after I went , but that’s false,” Rantanen said Wednesday. “Obviously, it was an enormous shock to depart Colorado, but I went with an open mind and tried my best on the ice. Once I put the jersey on there, I attempted my best and just decided just somewhat bit before the Deadline that Carolina would probably get a greater return for me if I might do an indication and trade; that it will be higher for his or her team slightly than me being a rental and going somewhere to play. In order that was the choice.
“I intend to make it clear that I used to be open-minded in Carolina and really considered staying there.”
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