Rantanen won a Stanley Cup with the Avalanche. He grew up and matured into a superstar with the Avalanche. While he's officially in a new phase of his career, you'll forgive him for feeling a little bittersweet about burying guys he used to enter grueling hockey battles with all the time. You don't just forget those kinds of memories.

Mikko Rantanen made Chris MacFarland and the Avalanche pay for trading him with a hat trick in Game 7 for the Stars.

Rantanen, who was in the playoffs with Colorado the past seven seasons and part of their 2022 Stanley Cup title, had his second four-point period in the series.