Community Food Bank of Fort Worth will be the recipient of the hats from Rantanen’s hat trick, according to the Dallas Stars Foundation. The food bank distributes food to 400-800 families per day and serves over 5,000 families with special holiday meals, toys and bikes during November and December.

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.

For nearly two and a half periods, the Avalanche had put up a defensive wall. Rantanen busted it down with two individual efforts.