Luke Fox of Sportsnet: Nick Kypreos stated that the Toronto Maple Leafs made an enormous supply to the Carolina Hurricanes for Mikko Rantanen, then pivoted to Scott Laughton and Brandon Carlo when the Hurricanes rejected.
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Kypreos: “I wrote an article for the Toronto Star every week in the past linking Toronto Maple Leafs to Rantanen, and it, it performed out the way in which I believed it might play out.
They have been proper in it to the purpose the place everyone thought it was going to be a Toronto Maple Leaf.”
Justin Bourne: “No kidding, and so they should have had some kind of midday deadline. That’s when issues began to maneuver on Laughton and no matter.”
Kypreos: “So, you recognize, we all know what the Toronto Maple Leafs did. They went and acquired, acquired Laughton and so they went and acquired Carlo.”
Bourne: “Very comparable.”
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Kypreos: “No, however what’s, what mainly it’s, is when, as soon as that door shut, then they to their credit score, they’d, they’d some backup right here.
So basically, it’s Stankoven, and two firsts.”
Bourne: “And two thirds.”
Kypreos: “The Leafs had (Fraser) Minten, (Easton) Cowan as I perceive it, and two firsts on the desk
for Rantanen.”
Bourne: “Two prime prospects and two firsts.”
Kypreos: “Yep.”
Bourne: “God, they wouldn’t have been in a position to get a D. That’s their complete asset pool.”
Kypreos: “No, mainly, it was like, that’s their large transfer.”
Bourne: “Yeah.”
Kypreos: “They may have discovered other ways to most likely shore up plenty of issues, however that was the massive transfer.
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Carolina stated no on the thought that they may meet the Leafs and Rantanen and down the street within the playoffs. They went out West.”
Bourne: “Actually? Didn’t need to run into Rantanen.”
Kypreos: “They didn’t need to run into Rantanen, and they didn’t need to run into the Toronto Maple Leafs in a, within the playoffs. And so they’re, they’re pushing them out west.”
Bourne: “Actually?”
Sam McKee: “Okay, so he was prepared to signal right here?”
Kypreos: “Okay, you need one other one?”
McKee: “Yeah I need all of it child.”
Kypreos: “I imagine that the Leafs have been prepared to spend anyplace between $105 and $110 million on an eight-year deal for Rantanen.”
Bourne: “Doing the maths on that, that’s we’re speaking 13 and a half.”
McKee: “Wow.”
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Kypreos: “We’re within the ballpark of 13.”
Bourne: “Yeah.”
Kypreos: “13, 13-plus. They have been all in on getting this man till Carolina stated, ‘No, we’re going to Dallas.’”
