Nashville Predators Talk - 2024/2025 Season II

McCarron and Smith are #8 and #9 in avg TOI/gp amongst our forwards. So indeed, they are 3rd liners. (Sissons is 6th so he snuck into being a 2nd liner I guess).
It may have changed more recently, but Bruno does indeed roll those guys out there when there is 2 minutes to go and we're down a goal. Out of the box stuff, no doubt.

For an extra dose of cynicism: Trotz thinks he can find youngsters anywhere. It's a GM game of chase and dump.

Of course, a team that doesn't want to stay in the mushy middle needs to actually build a solid team foundation through the draft and asset management. A group that will be grow together and develop a winning chemistry. FAs can be used to round out that team, but in a salary cap sport those guys can be budget-blowing expensive and tend to get distributed more evenly across the league.
 
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