BOSTON — Nathan MacKinnon was stunned.
He used other words — shocked and sad were two — to describe the Colorado Avalanche trading Mikko Rantanen to the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night. The best way to describe how he looked about 18 hours after an “Earth-shifting hockey trade” though, was stunned.
“Yeah, it was shocking,” MacKinnon said Saturday afternoon, shortly after the Avs’ 3-1 loss to the Boston Bruins at TD Garden. “It was pretty late. It seemed late at night. Just sad.
“I wish I could have talked about this … not right now.