Speculation: Nashville plan moving forward

[knowITALLkevin]

As a concerned Nashville fan, I feel that despite having a lot of prospects and picks, we lack any game-changing, talented players. We have many guys who can contribute to any lineup, but we don’t have any clear-cut 40-50 goal scorers or defensemen prospect who can challenge Josi for his position or even Forsberg. Given how the team is performing and the current roster, I just can’t see us winning a championship in the coming years.

How do we fix this in both the short and long term to become competitive and get back on top?

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[hido]

Trade Weber for Subban

 

[Soundgarden]

We're drafting top 3 rn and have 4 additional top 50 picks this year and a top prospect pool.
"Grandpa" Forsberg is 30 and a ppg there's plenty of gas left in that tank.

 

[triggrman]

Yeah we for sure should get a decent center prospect this season to go along with Svech, Surin and Edstrom. Molendyk and Gibson are both good defensive prospects.

What we lack is a coach that would know how to use them.

 

[wmupreds]

We're drafting top 3 rn and have 4 additional top 50 picks this year and a top prospect pool.
"Grandpa" Forsberg is 30 and a ppg there's plenty of gas left in that tank.

Sure Forsberg isn't that old but at 30yo it's worth questioning what level he'll be at by the time Preds dig themselves out of the current mess.

 

[Soundgarden]

Sure Forsberg isn't that old but at 30yo it's worth questioning what level he'll be at by the time Preds dig themselves out of the current mess.

It is worth the conversation, but plenty of stars play at a high level during their 32+ years. But he does have high trade value as well. I want to see him with whomever we draft first and foremost.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Until the team fires the coach and Trotz shows a willingness to make sure that deserving youngsters play bigger roles than veteran AHL grinders, we're not going anywhere. We'll just keep drafting guys, then watching them stall out and vanish on waivers when they come off their ELCs and still don't have any defined role on the team.

 

[herzausstein]

If we bring Bruno back next year, then the is no plan

 

[ShagDaddy]

Short term. Bring in a coach that can run an aged, veteran roster and get the most out of them as well as integrate a few young players.

Long term. Hope that Trotz figures out how to be a GM or go get one of Briaebois, Zito or McCrimmon’s right hand guys to run this franchise, clear out all the nepotism in the front office, steal the scouting department from Dallas, find the next Cooper, Maurice or DeBoer to coach the team.

 

[Top 6 Spaling]

+100 to everyone saying Bruno and Trotz have to go.

I forsee a really bad 3-5 years in front of us from a win/loss perspective, just about regardless of what we do. Given that, I prefer we trade guys like Saros and Forsberg for young, NHL ready pieces and lean into the youth movement. Not fully try to lose, but get notably younger while keeping a few veteran leaders around and building draft capital and a top-tier prospect pipeline.

 

[glenngineer]

We're drafting top 3 rn and have 4 additional top 50 picks this year and a top prospect pool.
"Grandpa" Forsberg is 30 and a ppg there's plenty of gas left in that tank.

Having the additional picks means nothing as this is a weak draft so while it was exciting to accumulate the draft capital, the team didn’t a crappy job of which drafts they should’ve gotten the capital in. Another major blunder.

 

[Soundgarden]

Having the additional picks means nothing as this is a weak draft so while it was exciting to accumulate the draft capital, the team didn’t a crappy job of which drafts they should’ve gotten the capital in. Another major blunder.

Let's wait until we actually do something with them before we declare the draft another major blunder. There's still another 30 games in the season and a trade deadline to get through.

 

[glenngineer]

Let's wait until we actually do something with them before we declare the draft another major blunder. There's still another 30 games in the season and a trade deadline to get through.

Every scouting service and anyone in the know has said this. Outside of the top 7-8 and then another small bunch until about 15 it’s slim pickings. Could there be a gem in there, sure but getting a shit ton of picks in a shitty draft is a blunder. It’s hard to be optimistic when you’ve seen what this organization has done recently and you go, why did you do the things you did?

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

Every scouting service and anyone in the know has said this. Outside of the top 7-8 and then another small bunch until about 15 it’s slim pickings. Could there be a gem in there, sure but getting a shit ton of picks in a shitty draft is a blunder. It’s hard to be optimistic when you’ve seen what this organization has done recently and you go, why did you do the things you did?

The weakness of this draft is basically that picks 20-40 are on par with 40-60 last year. It’s not that guys we take in late 1st or 2nd aren’t good prospects, they are just going about a half round higher than last year (which had great depth).

Further, it’s likely that both Preds and teams we dealt with knew this was weaker draft and that was baked into the value we received.

 

[Soundgarden]

Every scouting service and anyone in the know has said this. Outside of the top 7-8 and then another small bunch until about 15 it’s slim pickings. Could there be a gem in there, sure but getting a shit ton of picks in a shitty draft is a blunder. It’s hard to be optimistic when you’ve seen what this organization has done recently and you go, why did you do the things you did?

We're in the top 7-8 though and have the ammo to get into the top 15. There are moves Trotz has made that are worthy of criticism, but this isn't one of them. We don't even know what players might be made available that we can use our other firsts to acquire. We're months away from the draft.

 

[Armourboy]

Drafts are drafts, you use the picks you have and hope for the best, just like every other year.