They’re his idle enemies now. The Stars have other worlds to conquer and already know that if they win the next round, they will face one of the teams that eliminated them in the Western Conference finals (Vegas or Edmonton) once more.

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.