Bro Mikko is a genius lol i'm an Avs fan and I love how you noticed all the little things he does, he truly plays one step ahead of everyone else I love it.
I’ve been an avalanche fan for 30 years and I’m not watching them anymore because they got rid of a avalanche legend whose name should be in our fucking rafters
@ I mean in our defense mikko was asking got an outrageous amount of money we can’t afford to spend on him, I believe he wanted to make more than mack which definitely makes wasn’t going to happen, so it made sense to get something back in return than to let him walk for free
Rantanen is such a good mix of multiple great players. He uses his size like Jagr. Plays in front like Crosby. Shoots like Draisaitl. Shades of Peter Forsberg too. Crazy the avs had to let him go.
This is exactly what I'm looking for with Moose analysis...or any hockey analysis, really. Straightforward and in-depth. I would love to see a video on Necas for Avs fans...and for me. I love Nachos. The thing I noticed with him is how he would make plays that might seem like "empty calorie" plays that look flashy but don't accomplish much, but they're buying time for his linemates to get to where they need to be.
Yeah the more I watch Necas the more I like his game. We'll have to dig more into him. He's already pairing with Mack better than we thought, all things considered.
@@AlongTheIceHockey There's one highlight of his that's been sticking with me for a while and I think explains a lot about him. It wasn't even a goal of his. A couple years ago in the 2019/20 season when he first started to break out, he assisted on an OT winner against Buffalo where there was a mixup of assignments by the Sabres' D. Because of that mixup, Necas got a lot of space. It wasn't insane given the standards of 3 on 3, but it was definitely enough. The thing that stood out to me was that he got just the right amount of acceleration to only be a visible threat after it was already too late. He didn't just pounce on a mishap, he exploited it. He's the kind of player that needs space to work, but he doesn't just get better the more space he has; it's not linear. If you give him x amount of space he has y amount of danger to create a scoring chance. If you give him 2x amount of space, he has 4y, 6y, 8y danger of creating a scoring chance.
I think he needs space to work individually but in tight areas he is very good at sending the puck into open areas and he knows gameplay well so he can make blind passes to work out more often than not. Excited to watch him more!
There is popular game in Sweden and Finland called floorball. Its basicly similar game to icehockey but indoors without contacts and round ball and shorter stick. The moves these players make during game and tactics they use reminds me of how Rantanen plays icehockey. It think he has taken few lines from floorball to the hockey rings.
@@attesih Yes i know and thats why i think he has also some background/interest of the game. I think Mikko has watched a lot these players and got few stick handling and tactical things he can use in hockey.
17-year old Rantanen shooting floorball slapshots (radar). watch?v=VgG2BxUrlu0 It's in finnish, but you can see he's been around a floorball stick. He has the same goofy stick away from chest technique he putts with from the back post nowadays. :)
Brilliant video you really open up the tactics of Avalanche. Smart you are. I would have loved to see Avalanche fight once more in the finals with their Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Makar group. Modern era Oilers true dream team.
Play smarter not harder is the best quote that u can use of Rantanen he doesnt look flashy or fast but he is smart on the rush and has exelent possessioning and other call him lazy yes he doesnt defend much but his job is to attack and get the points wich he has done very well with mack
Lol, yeah I do wish the perception of "merchant" was changed, as playing with Mack is certainly a skill. It's not like they call Mack is a "Rant provider" when Rant scores on a dish that few would put home.
Great video, it does help to explain the frustration Ive had watching avs games. I'm not sure he'll be as top level on the canes. Did he adapt his style to fit Mac, or is this just how he plays? He's also behind the play on defense, takes forever to get up when he falls, sort of mopes around the ice. He might just be a low energy player until he gets physical contact or a shooting opp. I think the avs will be fine with Necas and Drury as a trade. But I am curious to see how he performs on a much slower and defensive team like the canes, where he can't really act like this.
I think ANY player that goes to teams like Canes or Isles will have point production dropoff. As for how Mikko's game fits with the Canes, it definitely isn't the most natural pairing (looking at it from the outside). Mikko did tweak his game to prosper with Mack, and that is in no way a slight. More players should do what Mikko did. He'll probably have to tweak his game more than he had to on the Avs, but I'll guess he can figure it out until proven wrong-as he posses so much you can't teach.
1:20 no player would have sprinted to the net here, because he would need to catch a pass before the blue line and at that moment Mac did not have clear possession of the puck to make that pass, as he was busy moving through contact. He knows that Mac is not in a position to do anything but enter the zone with the puck. I think a lot of players would have made the same decisions here. But MIkko is better than most of them at making something out of it because truly it was not that great of an opportunity.
We will miss Mikko. It was getting a bit stale on both the power play and the Mac zone entry. And the Avs made the unfortunate right decision that we can’t afford Mack 1 of the 3 best centers and the best defender and Mikko and have a balanced team. Necas and Drury are solid players so so far so good.
Time will tell and you may be right. I think all PPs go stale from time to time, and there is no replacing a lefty trigger man like Rant, but Avs are certainly set up to be more "balanced".
The black pants for the Avs give it away. I think the wide range of clips are more of a testament to Mikko's sustained success more than anything. It's very hard for teams to "catch on" to top end talent and ability which is why Mikko and Mack's PPG remain high, even with a little less team success.
While his shooting is elite, his slow game is not. Yes, he has hockey iq, but often doesn't back check or put in the effort on the for check. Many things in this video are reasons the Avs decided to make the change. It's seems Nečas has much of what the Moose has along with speed. The only thing missing is size.
Best hockey analysis on RUclips. Gonna miss this channel when you inevitably get hired as an NHL team's video coach.
Means a lot to hear people value this analysis 💪
Bro Mikko is a genius lol i'm an Avs fan and I love how you noticed all the little things he does, he truly plays one step ahead of everyone else I love it.
I’ve been an avalanche fan for 30 years and I’m not watching them anymore because they got rid of a avalanche legend whose name should be in our fucking rafters
@ I mean in our defense mikko was asking got an outrageous amount of money we can’t afford to spend on him, I believe he wanted to make more than mack which definitely makes wasn’t going to happen, so it made sense to get something back in return than to let him walk for free
@@atseridiagbuke3838according to a mikko presser he actually wasn’t asking more than Mack. Sounds like his manager is greedy
Rantanen is such a good mix of multiple great players. He uses his size like Jagr. Plays in front like Crosby. Shoots like Draisaitl. Shades of Peter Forsberg too. Crazy the avs had to let him go.
This is exactly what I'm looking for with Moose analysis...or any hockey analysis, really. Straightforward and in-depth. I would love to see a video on Necas for Avs fans...and for me. I love Nachos. The thing I noticed with him is how he would make plays that might seem like "empty calorie" plays that look flashy but don't accomplish much, but they're buying time for his linemates to get to where they need to be.
Yeah the more I watch Necas the more I like his game. We'll have to dig more into him. He's already pairing with Mack better than we thought, all things considered.
@@AlongTheIceHockey There's one highlight of his that's been sticking with me for a while and I think explains a lot about him. It wasn't even a goal of his. A couple years ago in the 2019/20 season when he first started to break out, he assisted on an OT winner against Buffalo where there was a mixup of assignments by the Sabres' D. Because of that mixup, Necas got a lot of space. It wasn't insane given the standards of 3 on 3, but it was definitely enough. The thing that stood out to me was that he got just the right amount of acceleration to only be a visible threat after it was already too late. He didn't just pounce on a mishap, he exploited it.
He's the kind of player that needs space to work, but he doesn't just get better the more space he has; it's not linear. If you give him x amount of space he has y amount of danger to create a scoring chance. If you give him 2x amount of space, he has 4y, 6y, 8y danger of creating a scoring chance.
I think he needs space to work individually but in tight areas he is very good at sending the puck into open areas and he knows gameplay well so he can make blind passes to work out more often than not. Excited to watch him more!
still totally nuts Rantanen was actually traded. Love how he plays the game. Great watch anytime. Hopefully Mikko can take it further in Carolina!
His cuts to the middle are lethal.
There is popular game in Sweden and Finland called floorball. Its basicly similar game to icehockey but indoors without contacts and round ball and shorter stick. The moves these players make during game and tactics they use reminds me of how Rantanen plays icehockey. It think he has taken few lines from floorball to the hockey rings.
Fun fact both Rantanen's sisters play in Finland national floorball team.
@@attesih Yes i know and thats why i think he has also some background/interest of the game. I think Mikko has watched a lot these players and got few stick handling and tactical things he can use in hockey.
17-year old Rantanen shooting floorball slapshots (radar). watch?v=VgG2BxUrlu0 It's in finnish, but you can see he's been around a floorball stick. He has the same goofy stick away from chest technique he putts with from the back post nowadays. :)
Love this thread and it makes a lot of sense knowing his game
We also play pesäpallo in Finland.
Brilliant video you really open up the tactics of Avalanche. Smart you are. I would have loved to see Avalanche fight once more in the finals with their Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Makar group. Modern era Oilers true dream team.
It sounds like he’d be a perfect line mate for Necas 😭
They play the same position.
Play smarter not harder is the best quote that u can use of Rantanen he doesnt look flashy or fast but he is smart on the rush and has exelent possessioning and other call him lazy yes he doesnt defend much but his job is to attack and get the points wich he has done very well with mack
Makes me really want him back as an Avs fan
crazy IQ
But Avs fans all say he is lazy and a MacK merchant because he doesn't skate as fast 😂
Lol, yeah I do wish the perception of "merchant" was changed, as playing with Mack is certainly a skill. It's not like they call Mack is a "Rant provider" when Rant scores on a dish that few would put home.
Wait, Avs fans think this??? As a habs fan, he's a pleasure to watch and I hope Slafkovsky eventually become a 75% version of Rantanen.
Avs fans don't think this. We loved Mikko.
Nice vid
Great video, it does help to explain the frustration Ive had watching avs games. I'm not sure he'll be as top level on the canes. Did he adapt his style to fit Mac, or is this just how he plays? He's also behind the play on defense, takes forever to get up when he falls, sort of mopes around the ice. He might just be a low energy player until he gets physical contact or a shooting opp. I think the avs will be fine with Necas and Drury as a trade. But I am curious to see how he performs on a much slower and defensive team like the canes, where he can't really act like this.
I think ANY player that goes to teams like Canes or Isles will have point production dropoff. As for how Mikko's game fits with the Canes, it definitely isn't the most natural pairing (looking at it from the outside).
Mikko did tweak his game to prosper with Mack, and that is in no way a slight. More players should do what Mikko did. He'll probably have to tweak his game more than he had to on the Avs, but I'll guess he can figure it out until proven wrong-as he posses so much you can't teach.
WAHHHH I MISS HIM
1:20 no player would have sprinted to the net here, because he would need to catch a pass before the blue line and at that moment Mac did not have clear possession of the puck to make that pass, as he was busy moving through contact. He knows that Mac is not in a position to do anything but enter the zone with the puck. I think a lot of players would have made the same decisions here. But MIkko is better than most of them at making something out of it because truly it was not that great of an opportunity.
We will miss Mikko. It was getting a bit stale on both the power play and the Mac zone entry. And the Avs made the unfortunate right decision that we can’t afford Mack 1 of the 3 best centers and the best defender and Mikko and have a balanced team. Necas and Drury are solid players so so far so good.
Time will tell and you may be right.
I think all PPs go stale from time to time, and there is no replacing a lefty trigger man like Rant, but Avs are certainly set up to be more "balanced".
Amazing analysis but pretty telling how few clips are from this year. Teams have caught on? Avs stink now? No idea
The black pants for the Avs give it away. I think the wide range of clips are more of a testament to Mikko's sustained success more than anything. It's very hard for teams to "catch on" to top end talent and ability which is why Mikko and Mack's PPG remain high, even with a little less team success.
"bUt He OnLy HaS sO mAnY pOiNtS bEcAuSe Of MaCkInNoN aNd MaKaR" -coping Avs fan
He optimized his game so he can work with those two well. There is a big difference between that and just coasting off someone else’s skill.
literally no avs fan says this. mikko was well loved.
Too bad Rod is playing him on the left wing which I fear will affect his production.
Yeah, I don't get why he is doing that.
While his shooting is elite, his slow game is not. Yes, he has hockey iq, but often doesn't back check or put in the effort on the for check. Many things in this video are reasons the Avs decided to make the change. It's seems Nečas has much of what the Moose has along with speed. The only thing missing is size.
So much nostalgia watching this. RIP Mikko.
Bro just said "cans fans" lmao
Now do Nečas.
A lot to learn from his game too. And no, this isn't a promise we will do a video on him, but you never know 😎
@ Thank you. You do great work.
just average 50 point scorer nothing special