Speculation: Nashville plan moving forward

[Kiseo]

Short term
- Determine team identity and run with it. Run and gun? Neutral zone trap? Crowd the net on offense? Clear the crease on defense? Right now, we have no identity and we are not hard to play against. What is Predators hockey? Nobody knows anymore.
- Build for a semblance of an entertaining hockey team next year and play the kids. Play em not to embrace the tank but to see what they got and give them some confidence. Seeing their teammates either get waived or traded for peanuts can’t feel good. I’d be tickled if one of our young players gets 20 points in our last 30 games down the stretch.
- Bring back “Ready to Go” by Republica as our intro song.

- long term
It’s hard for me to see a viable long term plan with current coaching staff but here goes:
This current system is not working. Our passing is off, our shooting % is at a historical franchise low, defensive lapses, not enough hitting, etc.
Either the system is never meant to work or we don’t have the players to work it.
Since many of our core players are signed long term (with NTC), implement a different system that matches the players skill set.
- Bring back “Ready to Go” by Republica as our intro song.

 

[adsfan]

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.

DeBoer used to play in Milwaukee!

 

[GeauxPreds1]

Plan? What's that? I just kinda figured Trotz is throwing darts at a dart board at this point and apparently firing Burnette is a very small bullseye

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

...apparently firing Burnette is a very small bullseye

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Plan? What's that? I just kinda figured Trotz is throwing darts at a dart board at this point and apparently firing Burnette is a very small bullseye

The scary thing to me is that Trotz didn't seem to believe in his own plan. He traded and bought out veterans and accumulated draft picks, talked at length about bringing in prospects and providing them opportunities, while supporting them with the right environment of veteran serial winners to help guide them along the way. Then he basically completely blew that up, relegating and dismissing all the youth while leaning entirely on the veterans. Or you can say Brunette did that, but ultimately Trotz allowed him to, and continues to allow him to.

It's just shocking to me that he had the gall to sell his original plan, only to backtrack so completely on it in such a short period of time. I'm confident he'd choose to describe things a different way, and claim that the young players simply weren't good enough, or weren't ready, etc. But the thing is, we've seen many of them show readiness in previous seasons here already, and we've seen some of them have some successes in their new homes. We've also seen the veterans stumble dramatically, leading us into 30th place in the league at the same time.

So one thing's for sure, Trotz will have a lot of difficulty in selling any future "plans" he comes up with to us. He has lost all credibility at this point. I suspect he'll be around for several more years, so he'll have an opportunity to win it back. But it's going to take time.

 

[Armourboy]

Trotz never liked playing young guys so it's not all on Brunette. No doubt in my mind he keeps signing Vets past their prime and watching our talent go play somewhere else.

 

[nullednumbed]

Trotz never liked playing young guys so it's not all on Brunette. No doubt in my mind he keeps signing Vets past their prime and watching our talent go play somewhere else.

It's fun to go look at the pending UFA list for this summer, sort by age, and see all of the players over 35 Trotz is going to have to choose from when he signs one or seven of them.