The former North Dakota star, who played 40 games in college last season, is approaching 50 in his first pro season.

Rantanen will be making his Canes debut, at least to start, on the top line playing alongside Sebastian Aho and Jackson Blake. Hall will be starting on the fourth line centered by Jack Roslovic and with Juha Jaaska on the other wing.

Jackson Blake has played 46 games in the NHL this ... year in the league on the Canes’ fourth line, often centered by Jack Drury. “He’s a college guy, too, and we have similar paths ...

The Carolina Hurricanes executed a bombshell three-team trade on Friday evening, adding Colorado Avalanche right wing Mikko Rantanen and Chicago

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Carolina Hurricanes receive: F Mikko Rantanen (from COL), F Taylor Hall (from CHI) Colorado Avalanche receive: F Martin Necas (from CAR), F Jack Drury ... It’s likely Jackson Blake shifts ...

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The Rangers had just killed a penalty to Ryan Lindgren and Vincent Trocheck, at the end of his shift, found himself on a partial breakaway in the final minute, with Carolina defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere chasing him. Trocheck opted not to shoot, but instead tried to drop a pass to a trailing K’Andre Miller. But the pass didn’t get through.

After dropping their second straight game, the Rangers have little room for error at this point in the season.

For one, Brind’Amour is pairing his two best players by putting them on a line together. Aho has led the Hurricanes in scoring in six of the last seven seasons, and Rantanen was a superstar in Colorado, logging more minutes than any forward in the league since the start of the 2021-22 season.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka each had a hat trick and an assist to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 7-2 win against the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night. Thompson and Peterka became the first pair to score a hat trick in the same game for the Sabres since 2008.

Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka each recorded a hat trick and an assist to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 7-2 win over the visiting Boston Bruins on Tuesday. Thompson scored in each period en route to his seventh career hat trick and first of the season,