5 days ago · It weakened one of Edmonton's top Western Conference rivals, too, in a bizarre and unintended fall-out of Draisaitl's high-dollar agreement. Mikko Rantanen, a pending UFA and key participant in the trade, apparently insisted on a $14M per-year contract, topping league-leading teammate Nathan MacKinnon 's $12.6M record.

4 days ago · Choice One: What was Colorado’s limit for Mikko Rantanen? Leon Draisaitl’s $14-million AAV extension and the soon-to-be-rising cap altered the negotiations.

5 days ago · The Avalanche seemingly realized that they couldn't offer Rantanen enough money to keep him on board. After Leon Draisaitl 's $14M AAV contract, he wanted to get a similar number, and the Avs didn't want to pay him more than what is earning Nathan MacKinnon, especially with Cale Makar 's contract expiring in two years.

4 days ago · The Edmonton Oilers signing Leon Draisaitl to a $14 million extension was a huge factor in the Mikko Rantanen trade by the Avalanche.

5 days ago · The Colorado Avalanche traded star forward Mikko Rantanen in a three team blockbuster deal tonight, that apparently had some influence from Oilers star Leon Draisaitl.

4 days ago · Leon Draisaitl’s $14-million AAV extension and the soon-to-be-rising cap altered the negotiations. (Rantanen is also represented by the same agency as Draisaitl: Octagon.)

2 days ago · Leon Draisaitl, who shares an agent with Rantanen, signed an eight-year deal with a $14 million average annual value cap hit, and it’s reasonable to expect a team will pay Rantanen around that ...

5 days ago · The Rantanen camp is believed to be seeking something like the $14-million cap hit Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl agreed to, and Nathan MacKinnon is getting $12.6 million.

5 days ago · However, all of that production gave the Rantanen camp plenty of ammunition to ask for a contract in the neighborhood of the $112 million, eight-year extension Leon Draisaitl signed in Edmonton in ...

5 days ago · The Colorado Avalanche has traded Mikko Rantanen to the Carolina Hurricanes in one of the most stunning transactions in franchise history.