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Keeler vs. Masisak: How should Avs fans react when Mikko Rantanen returns to Denver on Sunday?

Keeler: Boo Mikko Rantanen? They’d make you turn in your Subaru Outbacks and ban you to Nebraska for even suggesting it in January. But oh, how times have changed. Nathan MacKinnon’s old wing man on the Avalanche couldn’t get a long-term deal worked out in Colorado, so general manager Chris MacFarland shipped him off to Carolina in late January. Then Carolina couldn’t get a deal done either, so the ‘Canes shipped him off to … Dallas. Then the Stars signed him for eight years on a deal that was in the ballpark of what was reportedly offered by the Avs.