The first major domino fell for more than a month before the deadline for March 7, Mikko Rantanen and Taylor Hall heading for the Hurricanes and Martin Necas heading for the avalanche in a three -team blockbuster, according to several Reports.
Jack Drury will also go from Hurricanes to the avalanche, according to ESPN, while the Blackhawks – tied for the least points in the NHL but involved in an agreement with two suitors – will get a third round choice of Caroline and will keep 50 percent. Rantanen’s salary.
ESPN reported that the avalanche would also receive a second round in 2025 and a fourth round in 2026 of the Hurricanes.
Rantanen, 28, has collected 25 goals and 64 points in 49 games this season, operating at a pace that puts him on the right track to exceed 40 goals for a third consecutive season.
He helped the avalanche to win the Stanley Cup at the end of the 2021-22 season and to hold Wild Card first place from the Western Conference this year-helping to complete the 75 points of Nathan Mackinnon, in Head of the League – Before Friday’s matches.
And he will be joined by the Hurricanes-team n ° 2 of the metropolitan division-by hall, the former choice n ° 1 in 2010 which won the Hart trophy in 2017-2018 and sometimes demonstrated its potential with the Blackhawks . year.
Carolina will mark the seventh different team from Hall’s career, and its production has dropped since the winning campaign of Hart.
Even if the avalanche separated from Rantanen, they acquired another star striker in the person of Necas – a 100 -point contributor in the past two seasons with 16 goals and 55 points already this season.
Rantanen and Hall will be both free agents without restriction after the season, while Necas has one more year on his contract of an average annual value of 6.5 million dollars before becoming also free agent without restriction.
