Mikko Rantanen

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Mikko Rantanen
Date of birth October 29, 1996
place of birth Nousiainen , Finland
size 192 cm
Weight 88 kg
position wing
number # 51
Shot hand Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2013 , 2nd round, 59th position
Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
NHL Entry Draft 2015 , 1st round, 10th position
Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
2012-2015 TPS Turku
since 2015 Colorado Avalanche

Mikko Rantanen (born October 29, 1996 in Nousiainen ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League since July 2015 . With the Finnish national team , the winger won the silver medal at the 2016 World Cup .

Career

Mikko Rantanen comes from the junior division of TPS Turku , for whose U16 team he was used from 2010. During the 2011/12 season he made his debut at the age of 15 with the club's U18 juniors in Jr. B SM-sarja. In the following season he played mostly for the U20 juniors of the club in the Jr. A SM-liiga. In addition, he made his professional debut in the SM-liiga in the course of the 2012/13 season and has already made 15 appearances in the highest Finnish ice hockey league. In the 2013/14 season he also played for the U20 juniors and, at the same time, for the professional team of TPS. He got a total of 9 scorer points in 37 Liiga missions .

With the start of the 2014/15 season, Rantanen is an integral part of the professional squad of TPS Turku and acts as assistant captain . He was also rated by both Central Scouting Services and International Scouting Services as the most promising European talent for the upcoming NHL Entry Draft 2015 . In the actual draft he was then selected in tenth position by the Colorado Avalanche , who signed him less than a month later.

He then completed the pre-season preparation for the Avalanche, was in the NHL squad at the start of the 2015/16 season and thus made his professional debut on the first day of play. After six completed NHL games in which he remained without a scorer point, he was initially given to the San Antonio Rampage , the Avalanche's farm team from the American Hockey League (AHL). In San Antonio, Rantanen had 60 points scorer in 52 games, placing himself in the top 10 of the scorer list. In addition, he and Frank Vatrano received the Dudley “Red” Garrett Memorial Award as the best rookie in the league and was voted into the Second All-Star Team and the All-Rookie Team of the AHL.

In the 2017/18 season, the winger made his breakthrough in the NHL, when he was mainly used with Gabriel Landeskog and Nathan MacKinnon in the first attack row of the Avalanche and came up with 84 scorer points in 81 games. Rantanen continued this trend at the beginning of the 2018/19 season when he led the entire league in points (21) at the end of October and was consequently named NHL Player of the Month . He finally ended the season with a points average of well over 1.0 points per game, so he signed a new six-year contract in Colorado in September 2019, which should bring him an average annual salary of 9.25 million US dollars.

International

Mikko Rantanen was accepted into the U16 junior national team in 2011. From 2012 he played for the U17 national team, with which he took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2013 . In the following season he was appointed to the squad of the U18 national team, with which he participated in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2013 and the U18 Junior World Championship . In the latter, he was named one of the top three players on his team after scoring 5 points in 5 tournament games.

At U20 level, he took part in the 2015 World Cup, where he finished seventh with the team. He also made his debut in the same year for the Finnish national team . At the U20 World Cup in 2016 , he was the captain of the Finnish squad and won the gold medal with the team in his own country. In the same year Rantanen also made his debut with the senior national team of his home country and won the silver medal at the 2016 World Cup . At the 2017 and 2018 World Championships , he and the team missed the medal ranks.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2012/13 TPS Turku U20 Jr. A SM liiga 35 10 14th 24 –9 14th 9 2 4th 6th -3 4th
2012/13 TPS Turku SM-liiga 15th 2 1 3 -1 4th - - - - - -
2013/14 TPS Turku U20 Jr. A SM liiga 17th 5 13 18th +12 8th 3 2 1 3 ± 0 0
2013/14 TPS Turku Liiga 37 5 3 9 –11 10 - - - - - -
2014/15 TPS Turku U20 Jr. A SM liiga - - - - - - 7th 6th 8th 13 +9 2
2014/15 TPS Turku Liiga 56 9 19th 28 -1 22nd - - - - - -
2015/16 San Antonio Rampage AHL 52 24 36 60 +20 42 - - - - - -
2015/16 Colorado Avalanche NHL 9 0 0 0 –7 2 - - - - - -
2016/17 San Antonio Rampage AHL 4th 0 2 2 ± 0 4th - - - - - -
2016/17 Colorado Avalanche NHL 75 20th 18th 38 -25 22nd - - - - - -
2017/18 Colorado Avalanche NHL 81 29 55 84 ± 0 34 6th 0 4th 4th -1 0
2018/19 Colorado Avalanche NHL 74 31 56 87 +13 54 12 6th 8th 14th -1 4th
Jr. A SM-liiga overall 52 15th 27 42 +3 22nd 19th 10 13 23 +6 6th
Liiga overall 108 16 24 40 -13 36 - - - - - -
AHL total 56 24 38 62 +20 46 - - - - - -
NHL overall 239 80 129 209 -19 112 18th 6th 12 18th -2 4th

International

Represented Finland at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2013 Finland WHC 7th place 5 2 5 7th 22nd
2013 Finland Hlinka Memorial 5th place 4th 3 4th 7th +2 0
2014 Finland U18 World Cup 6th place 5 3 2 5 +2 0
2015 Finland U20 World Cup 7th place 5 4th 0 4th +3 2
2016 Finland U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 2 3 5 -2 2
2016 Finland WM 2nd place, silver 5 0 1 1 +1 2
2017 Finland WM 4th Place 10 4th 6th 10 +2 0
2017 Finland WM 5th place 8th 5 6th 11 +1 6th
Juniors overall 26th 14th 14th 28 26th
Men overall 23 9 13 22nd +4 8th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

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personal data
SURNAME Rantanen, Mikko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Nousiainen , Finland