Mikko Rantanen has reiterated for weeks that the individual achievements don’t matter to him. Not true, said Jared Bednar. The Colorado Avalanche coach noticed Rantanen has been “squeezing his stick a little tight” in recent games.
The chances kept piling up, but the results weren’t as frequent.
“You’re going to think about it It’s human nature,” Bednar said last Saturday after Rantanen scored his 49th goal. “You’re at 48. You’re not thinking about it when you’re maybe at 40, 39. … I don’t want him to have it in his head. But I think now he can taste it.”
