Mikko Rantanen Part V - Baby Come Back

[The Abusement Park]

Not sure if we count goalies in this list, but Kipper has to be up there to. His peak was as good as I’ve seen from a goalie.

 

[Northern Avs Fan]

Rantanen and Barkov will be the 3rd and 4th best Finnish players ever when their careers are done imo.

The order of those two is TBD, but I think they’ll clearly be 3/4 when they hang up their skates.

Rantanen’s a much better playoff performer than Selanne too, tbh. Selanne was ridiculous in the regular season though.

 

[henchman21]

It is really a golden era for Finnish players with Heiskanen, Rantanen, Barkov, Aho, and Teravainen all right in the prime of great careers. If Laine gets his crap together he could join that group. Any of the first 4 could end up in the 2nd/3rd best fairly easily. Though I think Saku Koivu should get more love.

 

[BleedWell]

It is really a golden era for Finnish players with Heiskanen, Rantanen, Barkov, Aho, and Teravainen all right in the prime of great careers. If Laine gets his crap together he could join that group. Any of the first 4 could end up in the 2nd/3rd best fairly easily. Though I think Saku Koivu should get more love.

In Finland Saku Koivu is the clear cut number three player of all time but Rantanen/Barkov & company are coming with their guns blazing. Finally a new generation that can compete with that finnish early 70's generation Selanne, S. Koivu, Lehtinen, Kiprusoff, Timonen etc.

 

[LOFIN]

So apparently Rantanen appealed the embellishment fine he got on April 30th (the play is bellow), and actually got his appeal through and the fine removed. Source is a Finnish newspaper.

 

[BleedWell]

So apparently Rantanen appealed the embellishment fine he got on April 30th (the play is bellow), and actually got his appeal through and the fine removed. Source is a Finnish newspaper.

That was good/funny article. Someone should translate it here.

https://www.hs.fi/urheilu/art-2000008027818.html

 

[LemurFromTheId]

So apparently Rantanen appealed the embellishment fine he got on April 30th (the play is bellow), and actually got his appeal through and the fine removed. Source is a Finnish newspaper.

Looking at that video it's actually pretty clear it wasn't an embellishment. You can see his left skate suddenly drift to the side, taking his feet from under him. No one has the reflexes to embellish anything when that happens.

 

[LTC Pain]

So apparently Rantanen appealed the embellishment fine he got on April 30th (the play is bellow), and actually got his appeal through and the fine removed. Source is a Finnish newspaper.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mikko is the new Mr. Clutch. Dude wins at everything. <a href="https://t.co/MrHn8SQsMy">https://t.co/MrHn8SQsMy</a></p>&mdash; 303.Hockey (@303Hockey) <a href="">June 4, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>