Vesa Parviainen
When a player starts to be equated with Jari Kurri in any respect, the bar is really high, writes Vesa Parviainen.
Mikko Rantanen ventilated three goals in Winnipeg (also). AOP / USA Today Sports
Mikko Rantanen’s nickname is not a “deer” in vain.
The insane going on in an animal stroke has made many to make him the toughest Finnish playoff player ever.
This did, among other things Raimo Summanen in Ilta-Sanomat, And the opinion of the former national coach deserves appreciation.
Specifically in the playoffs the player is measuredSummanen recalls, and the main reason for Rantanen’s number one place is his point center: it is tougher in the NHL career in the playoffs (1.30) than in the regular season (1.08)!
Playoff Exchange Eight Match Power 8+7 = 15 Rantanen became the first in NHL history against Colorado Game Seven A player in the third round.
At the opening of the second round against Winnipeg against the Dallas star also hit three goals, and he became a third player who succeeded in doing hat tricks in successive playoff matches.
The previous player successful player was Jari Kurri in the spring of 1985.
Jari Kurri, his fifth Stanley Cup, won in Edmonton without Wayne Gretzky, but with Reijo Ruotsalainen (left) and Esa Tikkanen (right). The year was 1990. IL Archive
Jonns may not remember – and now I do not refer to the sum – that Kurr’s point average also was tougher in the playoffs (1.17) than in the regular season (1.12).
Kurri scored goals in the playoffs with an average of 0.53. Rantanen’s corresponding figure is also great, 0.47.
It must also be reminded that Kurri also recorded his name in the NHL record book – even many times.
From the playoffs’ records At least the following are still in the name of Kurr:
- Most goals in one playoff spring (19, shared with reggie leach)
- Most goals in the playoff series (12)
- Most hat tricks in one playoff spring (4)
- Most hat tricks in the playoff series (3)
- The most overwhelming goals in the playoff match (3)
As the list adds five Stanley Cups to be overcome by Rantanen so far, you can still consider Finland as the best playoff player ever in Finland.
Of course, it is a matter of taste, because it is impossible to compare different eras.
With the development of the sport, of course, Rantanen is a better hockey player in many areas, but so is the image of other modern players.
On this basis, there would be no point in the comparison, as the “best of all times” would always be among the current players, and Bobby Orr, Mario Lemieux and other big legends could be forgotten.
Game buddies are also compromised. Kurri enjoyed serving the best hockey player Wayne Gretzky for his generation, but Rantasena’s situation is not fun.
It is enough to mention the names Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar, and in Dallas, the TPS breeder has found great chemistry with his countrymen Mikael Granlund and Roope Hintz.
Dallas can play up to 20 matches. If the team really progresses to the Stanley Cup finals – and even if the series wouldn’t stretch to the maximum Rantanen has a great opportunity to break Kurr’s 19-goal NHL record.
As this happens and Dallas wins, he would become a Finnish playoff player in my own papers.
While waiting for it, it is still: Jari Kurri.
Edmonton Oilers has frozen Jari Kurr’s game number 17. Aop