GDT: Jets at your LAST PLACE PREDATORS 11/23/2024 6pm CST start

[Bringer of Jollity]

We have three games left until Thanksgiving and if we win out we will still be out of the wildcard position. Thanksgiving is the typical barometer when talking about playoffs, if your team isn't in a playoff spot by then you're 98% likely to miss. I'm all aboard the tank train now.

I can't really root for us to lose, but if we ice a younger, more inexperienced, more error prone team, so be it. All the vets and "leaders" can go. Maybe keep a few guys that have actually shown "character" around to be real mentors.

 

[Kat Predator]

Maybe I can show my brown paper bag with or without eyeholes to Nino.

 

[Predation]

Bruno has a genius mega mind “system” that apparently doesn’t require speed and offensive creativity. Parsinen and Tomasino need to sit and watch how to take low percentage shots from a mile away, or pass the puck to Josi and Stamkos so they can miss the net some more.

 

[LCPreds]

Pretty sure I saw that tonight is a hhof celebration for Poile and Weber. Anyone know if that’s true?

 

[hockey diva]

Yes it is. Wearing my Weber team Canada jersey.

 

[LCPreds]

Yes it is. Wearing my Weber team Canada jersey.

Good call. Gonna wear my Weber all star jersey… the one I bought over Josi and Rinne because you know, no way they would get rid of Weber.

(And also was the end of me ever buying jerseys with names)

 

[ShagDaddy]

Svech isnt going to be slapped on wing is he? Seriously, we cant be that dumb

Andrew Brunette is still the HC of the Nashville Predators. Yes they can be that dumb.

 

[Kat Predator]

Pars had Forsberg and ... was it Granlund, Duchene? ... as his wingers?

Svech, if he's not a 3rd line winger here, might get placed between a traffic barrel and a guy with a cardboard twig.

Andrew Brunette is still the HC of the Nashville Predators. Yes they can be that dumb.

Svech will be on the 3rd line as a winger.

At least Svech avoids the curse of having to instantly produce as a center on a line that can't.

 

[wmupreds]

We have three games left until Thanksgiving and if we win out we will still be out of the wildcard position. Thanksgiving is the typical barometer when talking about playoffs, if your team isn't in a playoff spot by then you're 98% likely to miss. I'm all aboard the tank train now.

Not sure where you got such a specific number as 98%, but it's not close to that. According to ESPN it's 76.6% since 2013 (Wyshynski: Why the NHL Thanksgiving standings trend may not continue this season).

There's also a deeper analysis to look at- of course teams like San Jose, Chicago etc. aren't going to go on some miracle run to make it at this point. I think folks were a lot less surprised when Edmonton (5-12-1 at Thanksgiving last year) made a run. I think the Thanksgiving thing is just a truism that doesn't really have a lot of analytical weight behind it.

Either way, the Preds are in a big hole and I don't think any of us are optimistic at this point. I think it's fair to say EDM, or for that matter NSH last year (also outside looking in at Thanksgiving), both looked better by eye test and underlying numbers than the records indicated. I don't think that's the case for the Preds right now.

 

[Marty Party]

I should have wore my 2011 Weber road jersey 2nite. Sporting a Perds hoodie instead. Back in '13, I think, the Preds sent some STH's an invite to meet him. I went and it was a smalli informal event as he brought his two giant dogs with him. He signed my sweater and we small talked for a few. Good dude. Down to Earth.

Having pregame Old Fashioned's. Go Preds! Enjoy life.