Man that is a hefty price to pay for Rantanen especially with one year left on his deal. I don't think Colorado does it because they're competing for a cup every year and they probably strongly believe they can get Rantanen to extend. Value wise they'd probably be winning this trade by a small amount, but they have to win a trade if they're moving Rantanen.

My thoughts on the trade is we are giving them assets to go find the player to replace Rantanen, Caps don't have that player to give them. I would be curious to see what COL fans think of extending him, the price point has to be around 12.5 maybe even more. I don't think that will matter for the Caps as they can easily afford that. I think it comes down to how much COL will be able to pay him

What assets? Rantanen is a top 15 player in the league. No lottery picks, no absolute phenom prospect, this is a whole lot of quantity and not a lot of quality. This is a really easy no from COL.

Leafs keep Robertson and sign a better RHD via FA; no brainer

two late 2nds and a 24 year old LHD yet to full-time crack the NHL doesn’t get Chychrun. Sens aren’t desperate to trade him or something

I like Rantanen but I'm not paying that price.

Suggesting this offer doesn't have enough quality is wrong. McMichael is a young second line center coming off his ELC, Cristall is a recent 2nd round pick that just tore up the WHL. On top of that, you're getting TWO first round picks that are premium assets in this league, especially considering the caps just squeaked into the playoffs so that 2025 first could easily be a lottery pick and the 2024 is 17th overall I believe. Kuemper is almost a cap dump at this point, but the combination of miscellaneous draft picks easily cover that cost. Just because you don't know about the pieces coming back doesn't mean they aren't quality. Just because there's a high quantity of pieces doesn't mean there's not quality in that package. If you're gonna respond to a post, at least think about it first.

Good attempt at selling but the Avs ain't buying. Not even close to the reality of what it would take to get Rantanen.

McMichael isn’t a 2c that’s wishful thinking. He’s 23 with one ok season. Cristal is a dude COL passed on TWICE. So the. You had a bunch of word salad nonsense and try to justify 2 first round picks both being 16 or later and two second round picks (who cares) for a guy that is almost a lock for 40 goals and 100pts. Yeah it’s a lot of quantity over quality. I wouldn’t trade Rantanen for a top 5 pick and elite prospect and another first round pick. The offer sucks.

You both don’t have any idea of what the players in the caps pipeline are worth. You can just say that, no one expects you to know everyone and everything. But you pretend you do.

Nobody is pretending here except you. Neither of us have professed to knowing everyone and everything. Pretending that that offer gets you close to getting Rantanen is just silly.

Get your head out of the clouds and back in reality. No team is giving up half of this for one year of rantanen. Think it through next time.

I am in reality, you simply aren't and not even close. You want a top NHLer ante up. Simple.

McMichael is 23 has one 30 pt season. COL walked from a guy better than him in Newhook to get Colton. Nobody pretends to be an expert but I can guarantee that Cristal isn’t on ANYBODY’s top 10 or Top 20 prospects in the league list. Every team in the league has a Cristal like prospect, got news for you overage guys should dominate in their d+1 year. Tell me don’t think the Cristal could make the Avs top 6 next season? You know the answer is no, so he has no value next year for COL. The 16th pick in the first round this year, so you think COL cares about that not really. I’m all for discussing out of the box ideas, but for COL to trade a top 15 player it has to be compelling, it has to drastically improve an area of need. I mean come on bro you cap dumped your back up goalie, didn’t even include your best forward prospect then tried to justify it by adding in 2 mid round 1st. It’s ALL quantity over quality.