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Grading The Week: Avalanche fans want to boo Mikko Rantanen at Ball Arena? Fine. But please, please stop calling him the new Matt Duchene

For the love of Claude (Lemeiux), can we please stop comparing Mikko Rantanen to Matt Duchene?

Yes, they’re both Dallas Stars now. Yes, they’re both the enemy, as far as Avalanche fans are concerned. Yes, you have every right to boo their tails off on Sunday afternoon at Ball Arena when the Stars come to town in the Moose’s return to Denver, where he helped the Avs lift the Stanley Cup.

But this whole, “Mikko is Duchene all over again” thing? Sorry, but the puckheads up in the Grading The Week offices can’t see a like-for-like.