Avalanche training camp begins Thursday, with physicals and off-ice testing at the Pepsi Center. Star right winger Mikko Rantanen likely won’t be there, given that he doesn’t have a contract and he was still in his native Finland on Monday.
“This is definitely a waiting feeling, but you just have to be calm,” Rantanen told a Finnish newspaper. “There’s no panic yet. Already in the summer, I was prepared not to go back to (America) at the usual time. I am ready in theory, and it’s no shock that I’m still in Finland.