Nashville is in the spotlight to start off the day. They appear to be likely to miss the playoffs for a second straight year, though they have surprised before.
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Max 3rd Central or atleast Wild Card spot. Thats what i hope from this team
There's talent on this team, including several guys involved in the Admirals Calder Cup playoff run. I think the Preds could definitely contend for a wild card spot. I think after losing their way for a few years, they're back to the draft and develop model.
I say the Yotes finish above the Preds this season
Duchene hasn't been a center for a while.
Interested to see how the new coaching staff changes the traditionally weak powerplay. Apart from the injuries and selling at the deadline, the dreadful 27th ranked powerplay probably cost them a wild card spot last season. If everything goes right, 3rd place in the division, but most likely a Wild Card race. They are always in it with Saros, so you never know what to expect.
Still salty the Wild couldn’t keep Gustav Nyquist he was so damn good in MN and we didn’t have him for that long.
lets go Preds my biggest concern is center position if you always losing faceoffs means less puck possesion
I am a huge fan of the Andrew Burnette signing at HC. Its a team that isnt stacked offensively but I think he can squeeze out more offense with his systems as long as key players stay healthy and some younger players take that next step or two. Going to be a fun team to watch in a stacked division
With their D, PK and Goaltending, all they really need is a bump on offense and special teams. They were that close to the playoffs last season. If the new coaching staff can maintain the D and boost the O, I think we have a chance to make playoffs and maybe even win a series.
Feels like 2 years ago with a lot of people taking them to be at the bottom of the division but the preds still have great goaltending and defense if some of the young guys who had good stretches last year (Novak, glass, evangalista, tomasino, parssinen) can improve the preds should be back in the playoffs
As a lifetime Preds fan, I think this lineup is more promising than we've had in a while. We've been starved for young scoring forwards, and I think Evangelista, Novak, Tomasino, Glass, and possibly Kemmell will be great. I would love to see us trade a few of the new vets we signed at the deadline, trade Saros (who would be hard to see go, but trading him would give Askarov some NHL experience and would bring multiple 1st rounders back to the team), and sneak into the playoffs as a wildcard. I think wildcard is about the floor and ceiling this year, with the team trending upward after that.
I wouldn't really say it's likely for them to miss. The west is just really, really bad this year. They're probably gonna end up being a WC2 just by accident.
I'm expecting a mid season like we get every year. Will just miss the playoffs, which is the worst case scenario since they will get a mid 1st round pick. Rinse, lather, and repeat.
Longtime preds fan here: can we please tank lol
The text are getting smaller for every team or im getting old 😂
Nashville is winning the cup this year
I expect us to be top 3 in the Central. Tons of promising prospects with an offensive minded coach, sturdy defensive depth, and an elite goalie
Where is the Kiprusoff video?
Nashville are a playoff bubble team that is going to be strongly positioned to slide into that last wildcard spot in the West.
Defense and goaltending, my foot! This is easily the worst D-core I've ever seen the Preds put on ice and Josi and Saros are two of the most overrated players in the world. Also, Tomasino, Evangelista, Kemell, Novak, Carrier and Stastney are all pretty much useless at important aspects of the game.
As far as changes go, basically Luke Schenn replaces Mattias Ekholm, Schenn is right handed which would have been very helpful a year ago but isn't really needed now, overall definitely a big downgrade.
Ryan O'Reilly replaces Ryan Johansen, pretty similar in a lot of ways, but I'm guessing most people would consider that an upgrade, personally I wouldn't be so sure and with Johansen being 30 and signed until he's 32, whereas O'Reilly is 32 and signed until he's 36, I really would have preferred to stick with Johansen.
Gustav Nyquist replaces Matt Duchene, ok that's a MAJOR downgrade and probably the biggest difference of the bunch! Just for perspective, in the last two regular seasons combined, Duchene put up 142 points and 65 goals, whereas Nyquist put up 80 points and 29 goals. (Yeah, way to go Trotz!)
And Denis Gurianov replaces Tanner Jeannot, both young, both physical, both have scoring potential that they may or may not realize. So who knows?
So all in all we've given up some of our best players, which would only be ok if we were going into a FULL rebuild, but we're not, instead, and despite all the changes, we hardly look any different, just not as good, especially for losing Duchene! And oh yeah, we're returning to a Laviolette style of play, because that was working so well back in 2019.
The whole "winning culture' thing is just a bunch of horse-feathers! All it really means is, trying to get all of our one-dimensional young players to consistently overplay in the regular season, and thereby squeak into a playoff spot every year that we have no business getting, so our management never has to make ACTUAL improvements and put together a team that can actually win IN THE PLAYOFFS. The fact that it also means we never get a high draft pick, without paying through the nose for it in some kind of trade, is a nice bonus.
Preds are gonna lose a lot of one goal games. Gotta score eventually. I dont see them going higher than 25th in the league in scoring. Meaning one injury on D and its over. Someone said 3rd in central, not likely, my guess is 6th, maybe worse if yotes surprise.
I think they are in rebuild mode now. They have a great crop of young forwards to develop along with a strong D core with some young guys there still. Forsberg and Josi arent moving ever, so they should be great teachers for the next generation. I am not expecting a fantastic season by any means, but I think they will be exciting with new faces both on ice, on the bench, and in front office. I think its exciting for those of use who have been wanting some major change for a while now. Go preds!
Who's gonna score is the question. I mean, outside Josi and Forsberg.
On the other hand, D and Saros might be enough to make Playoffs even without scoring a lot.
I’m not completely sold on what Trotz is doing, but getting rid of the Skeletor lookalike as coach will help them.
I think they are a dark horse to totally bomb this season and be in the running for the draft lottery at the end of the season. Especially if Josi and Saros miss a lot of time.
Way too much yellow.
Pärssinen had 25 points in 45 games solid rookie season, i have high hopes for this season about him. Maybe 2nd line role after O'REILLY and 50-60 points at 82 game could be it. If so they might have center position covered but you might wanna look middle 6 Center anyway. Maybe Granlund can come Back after Pens buy him out or somebody like J Toews If he is good to play for one more year
Wish Nashville would sign Tatar so he can reunite with Nyquist lol
Im not a Preds fan, but my gut is telling me not to underestimate them. I dont think theyll make the playoffs with how much the center depth is lacking, but i think theyll be close
i'll give Trotz a pass since he just began his job, but as a first trade, getting the rights to Galchenyuk for Johansen and then just not signing him at all was… odd at best.
also odd was the fact they were seller at the trade deadline and started winning after.
they could be the surprise team in the west.
LETS GO PREDA
with Trotz back the work ethic will be there. in the playoffs this season
the way i pronounce it
af-in-a-say-yev
The goal of the Predators is to always be competitive and end up in the middle of the league.
Let’s go Addies! 2024 Calder Cup Champs!
Let’s give the young guys good shots. Saros and the d can cover for them. If we get good steps forward from our young guys and consistent play from our vets I’m happy. I mean if we fleece a few teams at the deadline I’m happy to, no one huge though
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Wtf is Trotz doing? Duchene buyout makes zero sense. ATM they are incredibly weak up the middle. He might not be worth 8 mil but he’s still a season removed from over a ppg and given the choice between that and dead cap space I’ll take the production.
So we're expecting another sell at the deadline year for picks? Likely another stressy season but hopefully with a better opening few weeks
Barry Trotz in Nashville 1998-2014:
We need to be a tough team to play against.
Barry Trotz in Nashville 2023-
We need to be a tough team to play against.
Be very surprised if they make the playoffs. Strange things happen I guess. They do need a couple of high draft picks. a 1C and a 1st pair D ideally. Not sure if they'll get that next summer. I think they're low key rebuilding, somewhere between a rebuild and a retool. No real hope of anything much next season and it's obvious they don't have the scoring. They'll still be looking to make a hockey trade to improve their chances imo, but when that doesn't happen, don't be surprised if they start to shed players in Feb.