Is there anything in the water when it comes to Dallas Sports? The cowboys are in a constant state of existential crisis, the Mavericks exchanged Luka Donc in exchange for irrelevance, and now the only brilliant point of the city’s playoffs, the stars, are struggling to solve what is wrong with their player AS.
Rantanen has been worse than a non -factor in the first two playoff games against avalanche, he has actively hurt them. The wing has not yet registered a point, has tried six shots on the door without result, and is a -3 on ice this series. Rantanen also rivals the worst young players of the stars with an abysmal Corsi of 39.1% (which measures the control of the 5V5 disc), and his lack of defense was already a known amount, but this series has appeared.
What makes this so bad is that Rantanen was supposed to be the missing piece. The star (forgive the word game) that was going to make Dallas a possible champion of the Stanley Cup. Instead, it feels much more like the clock beaten at midnight and the stars obtained a pumpkin in the worst possible time. The poor Rantanen game has raised so many questions that the team is trying to justify it in the most laborious way, saying that it is not accustomed to playing with the team, and “has many distractions” since it changed.
It is as if this is not the lives of all the players who once have bone on the deadline. However, it is what the stars coach said, Pete I must, about Rantanen’s work that alarms should sound for Dallas fans.
“He played in one place for almost a decade, and played with a guy
The main concern about Rantanen, and that has not yet been challenged, is that his statistics was a product of Nathan Mackinnon, the best hockey distributor, whose brilliance passes the players are prepared to take glory. With an internship 173 assists in the last two seasons, Mackinnon is a player who changes the game, and that led to doubt if Rantanen was really an elite scorer or a benefactor. It was this internal fight when they decided not to give the mass contract they wanted, instead of believing that they could find a new scorer. Until now, it has been worth it, with several players taking a step forward to fill the void, even if they do not have the amazing numbers that are raised well.
The stars simply do not have time to wait for Rantane to feel comfortable. You don’t get that luxury when they get paid as much as he acts. It is not only the lack of numbers in the box score, but the slow and without a discharge that was seen while playing. At this time it is safe to say that the stars are dramatically worse Team that before Mikko arrived, and that is a pill difficult to swallow, especially when Guy Dallas changed it for him, Logan Stankoven, scored two goals for hurricanes in his debut in the playoffs, and that is before the draft selects Carolina.
While it is absolutely fair to recognize that it has been a tumultuous year for Rantanen, changed to Carolina, then play in Canada in the four nations, then changed to Dallas, that is also making too many apologies for him. If you are a superior player, it is expected that intense. Fighting to perform is one thing, but fighting to give effort is another completely.
Not everything is lost. The stars and AVs are tied 1-1 when the series is directed to Colorado, but the expectation was that Dallas (and should) would reach a 2-0 advantage and quite easily. Instead, they were expelled in game 1, and rescued in extra time in game 2. It is disseminated to imagine that Rantanen will do something magically with the emotional pressure of the return to the city he called home for a decade.
At some level, we should all have seen this come. When it comes to sports, Dallas has deprived recent legs. EITHER course The stars would end with a player who can’t get lost as Mikko Rantanen just to see him disappear when the team needs it more. It is at the same time for the course when it comes to the most careless sports city in the country.
At least the wings have Paige Bueckers.