Nashville Predators Talk - 2024/2025 Season

[HellOnIce]

Jersey here, what do you want for Jankowski?

 

[wmupreds]

Jersey here, what do you want for Jankowski?

Late draft pick? I don't think the Preds would be interested in dealing him for what he would actually return, although I personally would welcome it.

What's NJ's interest in him?

 

[Predsanddead24]

He got his icetime cut a bit last game but how long until Sissons faces any heat from the coaching staff? I've long been a defender of him but he's been straight up garbage this year and almost everyone he's been paired with has significantly better numbers when they aren't stuck with him.

 

[HellOnIce]

Late draft pick? I don't think the Preds would be interested in dealing him for what he would actually return, although I personally would welcome it.

What's NJ's interest in him?

Curtis Lazar injury last night - didn't look good, so just looking at options for a warm body and extra forward.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Jersey here, what do you want for Jankowski?

I want for Jankowski to disappear into a hole in the ice and never be seen in Nashville again.

 

[Soundgarden]

Jersey here, what do you want for Jankowski?

To take Schenn or Lauzon with him.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

To take Schenn or Lauzon with him.

I definitely worry about our D these days.

Josi is Josi,

Skjei is... well he's not as good as Ekholm as far as I can tell so far? He's a reasonable veteran #2/3. He plays a different game than McDonagh, but can log minutes and be leaned on.

Our big problem IMO is that leaves us leaning waaaay too heavily on the rest. Lauzon and Carrier might be adequate 3rd pair guys. But we basically have to use them as our #3/4 guys, which is too high on the depth chart for the players they are. We don't use Fabbro, so whatever his ceiling is we'll never know. Schenn is washed.

I wish we had been able to land another top-4 UFA in addition to Skjei. Eventually Molendyk will arrive. But in the meantime, for a team that is supposedly in a "win-now" mode, I think we're at least one solid top-4 D away. I don't know how we get there, and I don't think there is upside in our current group (NHL or AHL) to get us there. Even if Stastney came back, he'd just be a more stable/mobile 3rd pair guy - which would be useful too - but we'd still end up leaning too much on Lauzon and Carrier IMHO.

 

[Predsanddead24]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1850908349769945393

Apparently Stastney was skating at what appears to be a stick and puck in Sheboygan, WI. Not sure if that's a good or a bad sign.

 

[herzausstein]

If we treated our LHD as LHD (instead of pairing Skjei and Josi together), then we have a pretty good setup at LHD. Josi, Skjei, Lauzon is pretty good depth. Bad thing is that puts our RHD as Fabbro, Carrier, and Schenn which is extremely weak.

If you pair Skjei and Josi together, you have a strong 1st pair, then the rest is less than ideal. Lauzon and Carrier would ideally be a strong 3rd pair but they are the default 2nd pair. Schenn and the rotational player then become a 3rd pair to be desired.

We dont really have a solution to either setup in house that could reasonably step up in the short term. MdG is more 3rd pairing upside and can pair with Schenn but that leaves Lauzon/Carrier as 2nd pair. Stastney has the same issue as MdG but with a little more upside.

We dont really have a RHD candidate that can step up to the NHL level or a LHD candidate capable of pushing Lauzon down a pair. So sortof stuck in no mans land until one of Molendyk, Gibson, Matier, Wilsby, etc manage to push their way up.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1850908349769945393

Apparently Stastney was skating at what appears to be a stick and puck in Sheboygan, WI. Not sure if that's a good or a bad sign.

Not being with either team (MIL/NSH), i take as a bad sign personally.