Nashville Predators Talk - 2024/2025 Season II

[braindead]

My night: seeing a headline that says Vegas and Toronto may be in a bidding war over Schenn and opening the article to discover it is Brayden Schenn from the blues.

 

[glenngineer]

Not directed at you personally as I can't remember each persons point of view, but welcome to tanking. Seriously, for anyone who wanted to tank to win a Cup this is the level of play you can expect to see for the next 4-5 years. If you can't handle that then you have zero business talking about tanking ever again.

Now as far as the roster for next year goes, a good coach with a good basic system that uses his players strengths can mean the team is better. Alot of that too depends on just exactly who gets shipped out and who all comes in, but this team isn't this bad. Ok well with all of the injuries and such maybe the Dcore really is this bad, but early in the season that was all coaching imo. Poor system and dumb roster decisions.

Yeah the hope is pretty tapped out right now. There is some good players coming on the horizon but I'm not sure any of those guys are even on a Forsberg level, let alone the step above that. Maybe this draft fixes that, but until we see that outcome its hard to grab onto that as a glimmer of anything.

I think with the right coach we can see at least a tolerable team to watch over the course of the next couple of years, but if Brunette is still around then next year won't be any different than this one. Luckily I don't think that happens. I think ticket sales behind the scences is going to push Trotz to do something, but even if he doesn't a rough start will pretty much insure he has no choice but to get rid of him. You can't talk about having a culture of learning to win and then allow a coach to stick around that isn't winning anything.

Ultimately as fans I think we just gotta ride it out and hope in the next 3-5 years things are a little easier to swallow. Until then people just need to adjust expectations and be pleasantly surprised if we are anywhere near the playoff hunt.

I don’t know if I was ever go full on tank. What I do know is I was all for playing the kids and letting the chips fall where they may and then adding depth to what we had.

What I wasn’t for was trading most of our organizational depth for lesser talents or just letting guys go (Fabbro).

I could’ve handled watching guys like Tomasino, Glass, Parssinen struggle as long as they were giving their all and progressively getting better.

What we were sold on was what I described above. What we’ve seen happen is moving on from guys that had more potential than guys currently on the roster or being brought up from Milwaukee(Bellows and Lucchini in this instance).

So while this is a tank season for all intents and purposes, you’re spot on that the next 3-5 years will be a rough ride. And if this was the case all along, why go out and sign the FA’s we did, re-signing Saros and moving Askarov?

If Trotz truly felt this team was a playoff team, he needed to move on from Bruno in late October/early November. When things didn’t improve, he should’ve moved on. Instead he moved out NHL quality players for pennies on the dollar in the hopes that he can figure out how to build an NHL team from scratch and getting the fans to buy in to this new approach because I don’t think this is what anyone of us signed up for or anticipated.

 

[weeze]

BT doesn't think that way. He believes he has made all of the right decisions and it is all of the players fault for this season. Not his or the Coaches fault. At least that is how I see him. He brought in players that can score, if they don't score then it is their fault. Not the Coaches, not the system. If they score than we can win games. I am not sold on BT being the right choice as a GM. As others have said, this team is one long point streak from having two losing seasons in a row. Something needs to change but I am not sure BT knows what that is or will be able to make the right moves. So far he is just jettisoning players. At least Poile would be able to get a decent return on most.

 

[herzausstein]

I think that a coaching change would go a long way. All the way back to the playoffs? Probably not. But we wouldnt like we do. This team has appeared to of lost all drive. Just going through the motions. We have fake toughness at the bottom of the lineup but noone of note once you get past the bottom pairing and bottom line. We dont have any players like Tkachuk, Shea Weber, etc. High end players that will make you think twice.

Personally, wouldnt mind seeing parts of the "core" shipped off as well but i doubt we get that. Trotz bought out duchene but i see alot of players on the ice right now giving alot less effort than what duchene gave