Mikko Rantanen

Mikko Rantanen out week-to-week after suffering this gruesome-looking leg injury

Colorado Avalanche star Mikko Rantanen is out week-to-week with a lower-body injury, head coach Jared Bednar announced on Wednesday.

Rantanen was injured during the Avalache’s 3-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues on Monday. The star forward suffered a left leg injury after catching a rut in the ice. His left foot and leg were momentarily facing the wrong direction. Rantanen needed help getting to the locker room.

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By Ian Oland 4 years ago

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Finnish floorball team makes offer sheet for Avalanche’s Mikko Rantanen

The Colorado Avalanche have yet to re-sign Mikko Rantanen who is currently a restricted free agent. Things are heating up on that front now that Finnish floorball team Nousiaisten Ryhti has offer-sheeted the right wing forward, offering some very compelling–and ridiculous–compensation in return.

The players Colorado would receive in compensation are Joel, who’s very skilled at collecting “balls/pucks from the rink/ice after practice,” although he is “without any brain activity,” and Tommi, their oldest player who has a “quite cute daddy-belly.”

Nousiaisten Ryhti play in Rantanen’s hometown of Nousiai. The team is also throwing in a bag of floorballs for general manager Joe Sakic. How can Sakic and the Avs refuse all of that?

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By Brennin Weiswerda 4 years ago

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