Hours after the NHL trade deadline, numerous pieces of information are leaking about what happened and what could have happened.

The person who is probably the best-connected insider in the entire National Hockey League, Elliotte Friedman, spilled the beans last night and made an interesting statement involving Mikko Rantanen and the Montreal Canadiens.

A Canadiens Offer for Mikko Rantanen?

Friedman, who is obviously not a journalist from Montreal and owes nothing to Montreal, mentioned “he wouldn’t be surprised if the Habs tested the waters for Mikko Rantanen.”

You read that right. Wow.

A few weeks ago, his colleague Eric Engels from Sportsnet mentioned that the Canadiens had (unsurprisingly) a huge interest in Mikko Rantanen.

Kent Hughes and Jeff Gorton, therefore, seem to have tried something in this case.

For Friedman to make a statement like this and name names, there has to be something here.

DLC: “I wouldn’t be surprised if the Habs tested the waters for Mikko Rantanen”

It happens in the following episode:

 

This shows that the Canadiens’ management is serious and that they are likely to try something big again this summer:

 

“Friedman adds that he knows Rantanen avoided certain teams that weren’t competitive ‘right now.’

And according to him, the Canadiens might be one of those teams.”

– Félix Forget

This could explain a lot.

In short, after an extremely eventful start to 2025, everything indicates that forward Mikko Rantanen is now officially settled within the Dallas Stars organization.

We wish him the best of luck there, and we hope things go better for him than they did in Carolina.