Quoting: BeterChiarelli
Rantanen is one of the up-and-coming top wingers in the league. He's not a cap dump. Quit trying to incite a reaction out of other users.
I was simply pointing out that Rantanen is a replacement-level player without MacKinnon, and posted stats to prove it. This fact combined with his egregious $9.25M contract means he doesn't have much trade value. That was my point.
http://naturalstattrick.com/linestats.php?fromseason=20172018&thruseason=20192020&stype=2&sit=5v5&score=all&rate=y&team=COL&vteam=ALL&view=wowy&loc=B&gpfilt=none&fd=2021-01-13&td=2021-05-08&tgp=2000&strict=incl&p1=8478420&p2=8477492&p3=0&p4=0&p5=0
He's a very good complimentary player, but he isn't able to drive play without an elite center. There are lots of guys like this: Nugent-Hopkins was a top-5 player in the league when he was moved to Draisaitl's wing last year, if he played there 90% of the time his stats would look better than Rantanen's for sure. But he struggles to create offense when he's the #1 guy on his line, and so isn't worth $9M+ IMO.
http://www.nhl.com/stats/skaters?reportType=game&dateFrom=2019-12-31&dateTo=2020-03-09&gameType=2&filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&sort=points,goals,assists&page=0&pageSize=50
Have a nice day sir.