Nashville Predators Talk - 2024/2025 Season II

[Viqsi]

People are spoiled having had Ekholm here as a #3 for so long. That guy was a #1 Dman so if that is what you are expecting to see out of a #3 or 4 you are going to be disappointed for a long time. Our Dcorp for years has essentially been Crosby+Malkin combo but just on the defensive side. It's an exception and not rule.

To be fair, before Ekholm, our #3 was Hamhuis - who also went to western Canada to become a top-pairing guy.

 

[MrJoshua]

To be fair, before Ekholm, our #3 was Hamhuis - who also went to western Canada to become a top-pairing guy.

I mean, at one point Nashville’s defense corps had Weber, Josi, Ekholm, Jones, and Ellis. We’re pretty spoiled when it comes to defense. I’m not sure they’ve had defensive depth this weak since the turn of the millennium.

 

[PredsV82]

Cursed? Ah, no. The fact that he still even has a f***ing job shows that he's charmed. HAS THE GOAT PICS

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[JR303]

fixed

Ha ha, fair enough.

 

[nine_inch_fang]

25-3-0... There's still a chance!

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

25-3-0... There's still a chance!

We actually just hit 0% chance per the Hockey Reference Monte Carlo simulator. That is, in 1000 runs of their league schedule simulator, none of the 1000 outcomes resulted in us making the playoffs.

Which is the right way to do it... 25-3-0 to hit an arbitrary points threshold helps to illustrate what's needed, but doesn't factor in the whole schedule and what all the myriad teams above us might do.

MoneyPuck does still have us at 0.3%, however. Which I guess to Trotz still means we have a "3 in 10 chance" of making it.