I agree with @Skipper that we will not know how the Rantanen deal actually works out until next season (and beyond). From a talent/production perspective, Rantanen was an upgrade over Stankoven (meaning maybe "better" for the immediate time-frame but not long-term). However, I wonder how things might look today if we'd stood pat. (My only real concern moving forward with Rantanen is the amount of money/years committed to him. His production has been other-worldly in the past. He's played 652 career NHL regular-season games. All but 33 of those were with a team that featured MacKinnon, Landeskog, Makar. His scoring rate with CAR-DAL is considerably below his career before that. He's a big guy that isn't overly physical and lumbers around the ice a bit. But he seems to find himself in the right place quite a bit, and had a few of those chances last night. He just didn't bury anything. I think he'll only get better as he gets more and more familiar with his new long-term teammates. I also do not discount the comfort he probably feels with as many Finns as we have on the Stars.)