The Colorado Avalanche have to sign right wing Mikko Rantanen. We all know that. We all know it’s not going to be cheap.
Well, the Jeff Skinner contract may have made Rantanen’s more dear. The Buffalo Sabres — they who bequeathed Ryan O’Reilly with a $7.5 million AAV contract when he was still a 60-point guy (He still is, he just might be one with a Cup ring soon) — just signed the winger to an eight-year contract with an AAV of $9 million.
Skinner is another 60-point kind of guy.