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The word “blockbuster” gets thrown around a little too often in today’s NHL, often for trades unworthy of the term, in the same way that anything might feel like a five-star meal to a starving man. But the deal that dropped on Friday night? That one deserves the title, no questions asked.

ELMONT, N.Y. — Mikko Rantanen ... Necas and Jack Drury to Colorado, there’s been some reporting on where things stood on contract negotiations between the Avalanche and Rantanen, who is ...

The blockbuster deal between the Hurricanes and Avalanche on Friday creates intrigue about how the Golden Knights will handle the March 7 trade deadline.

Trading Moose is fan abuse. Surely, they’re not done. Right? Shipping out Mikko Rantanen has to be the beginning of a mid-season makeover — not the Finn-ishing piece. Surely, somebody’s coming. Somebody big.

The Hurricanes, in their history, have never traded for an in-his-prime superstar like Mikko Rantanen. This changes everything.

Mikko Rantanen was just as surprised by the news of him being traded to the Carolina Hurricanes as everyone else was on Friday. As contract extension speculation was just heating up, the Colorado ...

Carolina acquired two-time 40-goal scorer and Stanley Cup champion Mikko Rantanen from the Colorado ... Colorado received Martin Necas and Jack Drury from Carolina in the deal, along with a ...

After swinging a massive trade for superstar Mikko Rantanen ... to the Hurricanes, Rantanen will get to wear his patented No. 96 in his Canes' debut. Forward Jack Roslovic was previously wearing ...

Mikko Rantanen ... Martin Necas, Jack Drury, and a second-round pick from the Hurricanes. Colorado general manager Chris MacFarland said Saturday the "timing was right" to trade Rantanen given ...

Colorado Avalanche right wing Mikko Rantanen (96 ... They sold high on Martin Necas, sending him and Jack Drury to the Colorado Avalanche for Rantanen, an impending unrestricted free agent ...