Martin Necas and Jack Drury have settled in nicely, both on and off the ice, with the club. The short-term return on the NHL’s biggest in-season trade in two decades has been nothing but positive. The raw emotions of losing a core player and beloved teammate, Mikko Rantanen, have subsided, because life in the NHL goes on.
The Carolina Hurricanes' six-week rental of Mikko Rantanen resulted in six points and flipping him for a pair of first-round picks, forward Logan Stankoven and other pieces. When they acquired Rantanen in late January for Martin Necas and Jack Drury in a ...
After the way Mikko Rantanen played Thursday night, the Hurricanes really had no choice but to cut their losses and hope his departure is addition by subtraction.