It was a wild six weeks for Mikko Rantanen, which included two trades and negotiating a potential contract with several teams.

With the Hurricanes against the ropes and Rantanen refusing to commit to signing an extension before the deadline, Carolina traded him to the Stars. The 27-year-old forward agreed to an eight-year, $96 million extension with Dallas, carrying a $12 million cap hit yearly.

When Mikko Rantanen left Colorado via a trade, it caused a great surprise in the NHL. We knew there were rumors about him, but we didn’t know if the Avalanche would decide to send him elsewhere. Not many people saw this trade coming,

"I told them I'll be flexible and I want to play here for a long time. Then a couple days later they traded me," Rantanen said Saturday.

Although it’s almost unheard of for a 100-point scorer to be traded twice in the same season, that’s precisely the situation Dallas Stars winger Mikko Rantanen experienced this year.