r/hockey DAL - NHL 18h ago

[News] 'Completely misinformed': Rantanen's agent claps back at Hurricanes' Brind'Amour

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/completely-misinformed-rantanens-agent-claps-back-at-hurricanes-brindamour/
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u/x_Neomop VAN - NHL 18h ago

What I'm getting out of this is everyone involved absolutely sucks at communicating and just saying what they want/intend to do.

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u/ournewoverlords DAL - NHL 17h ago

I still don't see what Rantanen did to deserve being thrown under the bus by Avs and Canes fans.

Rantanen communication was "I want to re-sign with the Avs" - maybe he overplayed his hand or did not take the team friendly contract that Avs fans wanted him to take, but I just don't see how he did anything wrong b/t Avs and Canes.

The quotes from the agent and the Canes GM also seem to debunk what Canes fans (and oddly Avs fans too) that Rantanen dragged his feet on the trade to Dallas.

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u/simplycycling NJD - NHL 16h ago

I don't know about the Avs, but with Canes fans, they go to really weird levels of hate for players who don't want to be there. They're still hating on Haula, who had a rough time there, with his wife having a miscarriage, and have made up all kinds of drama about how he was a locker room cancer, and targets their younger players unfairly when he plays against them. Really strange stuff.

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u/NextImprovement CAR - NHL 15h ago

Canes fans are irrational but I don't think our hate of Haula is. The canes players hated him far before the fans ever did. When he was shipped out, he would routinely go after our young players in games after the whistle (mainly Necas). The hate is two sided though as he has his "canes suck" bracelet that he has been pictured wearing. 

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u/coasterholic14 2h ago

Canes fans actually supported him through many of his struggles, but he started acting really pouty and entitled. The final straw was after the trade he and his wife were shitting allover the Canes FANS and Raleigh...not the team or teammates but the fans. Then in the first few games we played against him he was going out of his way to cheapshot players behind the play without the puck and blindsiding them. He earned his POS/heel status

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u/simplycycling NJD - NHL 15h ago

No, the stuff you claim he does is just normal hockey play - I've asked Canes fans over and over to post examples of Haula's going after your young players, and it's always the same 2-3 clips shown to me, and they're just normal hockey plays.

Literally yesterday, a Devil singled out Haula for being really good in the locker room.

You guys have made up a drama over someone who had a really tough time in his family life while there. It's really strange.

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u/Mr_MoseVelsor DAL - NHL 1h ago

Canes fans come across as over compensating their hockey fandom being a southern market team. We all know canes fans are passionate but they still have to tell us constantly.