All right, on our phone lines right now, we do believe we are joined by the great Miko Rantanin of the Dallas Stars.

Miko, do you read us, sir?

Yes, I do.

Thanks for having me on.

Man, thank you for joining us, and we are fired up about the season ahead, but really the biggest question I have for you to start this is, given how crazy your season was and how many different places you called home for a small portion of time, how relaxing was your summer?

Were you able to get away from it and just sort of be in

the same place and recover after that long year? Yeah, yeah. I was mostly in Finland, obviously,

you know, from there. So spent about two months in Finland and got away from hockey for a little

bit and then started to train again

and got on the ice ice in August again and then early September back to Dallas.

So I'm really excited to be back in Dallas and start the season.

Yeah, when things didn't work out for you in Colorado and then you were moved to Carolina

and it wasn't a fit there for you.

It seemed like Dallas was the only place that you really wanted to go because of the number

of fins that are on the team.

Has that really worked out to the way that you had hoped it would be?

Yeah, yeah. You know, I think obviously Dallas has been a good team for multiple years and

it's a big bonus that there's a lot of good friends of mine in the team even from when I played in Colorado,

you know, always knew role play really well and got to know Miro and Esa as well. So, so, so, but that obviously wasn't the only, only reason.

I think most of the, most, mostly the reason was just how good the team is.

And, and there's a lot of young, good players.

So we're hopefully going to be good for multiple years.

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