Nashville Predators Talk - 2024/2025 Season

[Porter Stoutheart]

No, keep them in Milwaukee to develop

Well they are what 24 and 26? Not that young. Anyway Big Time is still just 2nd year pro so he can use the development time. Murray is basically a finished product now.

 

[ShagDaddy]

I saw a report where Zegras told a reporter he doesn’t like playing wing which is where they’ve been playing him. Maybe he wants out of Anaheim.

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

I saw a report where Zegras told a reporter he doesn’t like playing wing which is where they’ve been playing him. Maybe he wants out of Anaheim.

Matt Duchene redux. Kid is not an everyday NHL center.

 

[Scoresberg]

I am wondering if they are holding Novak out to protect him from an injury and set him up for a trade. I don’t recall him getting injured in the last game he played and he’s been out for 3 games now.

This would also be in line with trading Fabbro and creating cap room. Moving Novak would also free up another 3.5 mil.

 

[Armourboy]

I am wondering if they are holding Novak out to protect him from an injury and set him up for a trade. I don’t recall him getting injured in the last game he played and he’s been out for 3 games now.

This would also be in line with trading Fabbro and creating cap room. Moving Novak would also free up another 3.5 mil.

He apparently injured something in a collision with Sissons right at the end of his last game.

 

[nine_inch_fang]

I am wondering if they are holding Novak out to protect him from an injury and set him up for a trade. I don’t recall him getting injured in the last game he played and he’s been out for 3 games now.

This would also be in line with trading Fabbro and creating cap room. Moving Novak would also free up another 3.5 mil.

He apparently injured something in a collision with Sissons right at the end of his last game.

Yeah, Willy mentioned the Novak injury after that awkward collision between Evangelista and Parssinen.

 

[Scoresberg]

I stand corrected, then.

Yeah, Willy mentioned the Novak injury after that awkward collision between Evangelista and Parssinen.

He apparently injured something in a collision with Sissons right at the end of his last game.

 

[herzausstein]

Matt Duchene redux. Kid is not an everyday NHL center.

Zegras is a center in the same way Novak and Stamkos are centers. Sure he can do the job but that isnt where you put him if you have better options

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Zegras is a center in the same way Novak and Stamkos are centers. Sure he can do the job but that isnt where you put him if you have better options

I guess if you have McTavish, Carlsson, Strome at center, even Lundestrom was a 1st round pick and is only 25... then you can certainly move a guy to where he fits better.

Our issue I guess is we don't clearly have anybody better. Parssinen, Novak... if Zegras came here, I'd certainly be ready to look at him in the center slot.

 

[nine_inch_fang]

Kind of amazing how, given any semblance of an opportunity, Parssinen is showing his worth. I get expecting prospects to earn icetime but, damn, you have to at least give them some type of legitimate possibility to get going.

Especially when your team is full of plugs that will never get better and you're f***ing losing.

 

[herzausstein]

I guess if you have McTavish, Carlsson, Strome at center, even Lundestrom was a 1st round pick and is only 25... then you can certainly move a guy to where he fits better.

Our issue I guess is we don't clearly have anybody better. Parssinen, Novak... if Zegras came here, I'd certainly be ready to look at him in the center slot.

Sure he may be better than our options like Parssinen but those options are already not really used by Bruno. He makes more than Novak and has been out produced by Novak this season and last. Then there is the injury history and acquisition cost.

 

[101st_fan]

As of Monday morning, the reality is we currently sit at a 22 man roster with the lingering question of when Fabbro will return to the lineup definitively answered. I didn't have lost on waivers on my bingo card ... but there is resolution to the situation.

Kind of amazing how, given any semblance of an opportunity, Parssinen is showing his worth. I get expecting prospects to earn icetime but, damn, you have to at least give them some type of legitimate possibility to get going.

Especially when your team is full of plugs that will never get better and you're f***ing losing.

Pärssinen is doing one thing consistently that the vets aren't ... going to the front of the net and getting tips on net.

 

[nine_inch_fang]

Pärssinen is doing one thing consistently that the vets aren't ... going to the front of the net and getting tips on net.

And that is something he's always done along with puck protection and retrievals in the offensive zone. Kind of mind numbing that they're this far into a losing season and he's only now getting a chance to showcase his ability, and that's only becauseof injury. I mean, that Forsberg goal on the PP doesn't happen without Parssinen screening the goalie.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Sure he may be better than our options like Parssinen but those options are already not really used by Bruno. He makes more than Novak and has been out produced by Novak this season and last. Then there is the injury history and acquisition cost.

I'm not arguing for acquiring Zegras, mind you. I'd also rather give Parssinen an extended run, and would also find Novak adequate. Just if we had drafted Zegras with a top-10 pick ourselves, made that investment... plus the contract investment... then I'd have been pretty inclined to try to play him at center for us, if that's what he was doing when he logged those 60+ point seasons.

Or I guess, if we did go ahead and trade some significant assets to acquire him, then brought that contract in here, again, that ups the ante on our investment, and I'd try very hard to maximize the return on that investment by considering him ahead of Parssinen and Novak. Just... I hope we don't make that investment atm. His contract isn't going to be bad enough that the Ducks will ever have to firesale him completely... some other tanking team with Cap space will always be willing to pay something meaningful to try him out.

 

[Scoresberg]

And that is something he's always done along with puck protection and retrievals in the offensive zone. Kind of mind numbing that they're this far into a losing season and he's only now getting a chance to showcase his ability, and that's only becauseof injury. I mean, that Forsberg goal on the PP doesn't happen without Parssinen screening the goalie.

Yeah, Pärssinen's been terrific.

 

[herzausstein]

I'm not arguing for acquiring Zegras, mind you. I'd also rather give Parssinen an extended run, and would also find Novak adequate. Just if we had drafted Zegras with a top-10 pick ourselves, made that investment... plus the contract investment... then I'd have been pretty inclined to try to play him at center for us, if that's what he was doing when he logged those 60+ point seasons.

Or I guess, if we did go ahead and trade some significant assets to acquire him, then brought that contract in here, again, that ups the ante on our investment, and I'd try very hard to maximize the return on that investment by considering him ahead of Parssinen and Novak. Just... I hope we don't make that investment atm. His contract isn't going to be bad enough that the Ducks will ever have to firesale him completely... some other tanking team with Cap space will always be willing to pay something meaningful to try him out.

Oh yeah if we had drafted him id be pushing hard for him to center but i feel like he would be given the Novak treatment. If he does get to play center, he would get 12 mins of icetime with not our best wingers. If he is put with better wingers, the first mistake he makes he gets demoted for being a defensive risk which given we are talking about zegras... this would be a couple shifts into the game.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

I could totally see us taking Matt Benning back. Sort a RD version of Lauzon, but without the physicality.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

And not that I'd have any particularly high hopes, but I'd take a crack at Kahkonen too. I don't think he'll be better than Wedgewood, but Wedgewood certainly isn't the answer. Get another Finnish goalie in here... who knows what might happen eh.. ? Can't be any worse than Wedgewood.

 

[Soundgarden]

And not that I'd have any particularly high hopes, but I'd take a crack at Kahkonen too. I don't think he'll be better than Wedgewood, but Wedgewood certainly isn't the answer. Get another Finnish goalie in here... who knows what might happen eh.. ? Can't be any worse than Wedgewood.

I really liked KK a few years ago, I don't know what happened to him, seemed like he had a lot of promise.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

I really liked KK a few years ago, I don't know what happened to him, seemed like he had a lot of promise.

I don't have any personal opinion of him. But I do of Wedgewood. I thought Lankinen was ok. Rittich I thought was awful, even though he seems to have been ok in Colorado and LA. Wedgewood is even more awful.

I figure since Kahkonen has played NHL games in various places and other NHL teams have wanted him somewhat, that alone qualifies him as potentially being as good as Wedgewood.

 

[herzausstein]

KK seems to of fallen off hard. Granted Wedgie has been just terrible. Both their stats are terrible but we could actually gain a little capspace by waiving Wedgie (can bury 1.15 million of Wedgies cap and KK comes in at 1 million so a net benefit of 0.15 million)

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

I'm fully prepped for us to claim Benning and then watch as he's dressed every game while DG is sent to the press box for the foreseeable future.

 

[herzausstein]

I'm fully prepped for us to claim Benning and then watch as he's dressed every game while DG is sent to the press box for the foreseeable future.

Atleast if he sat in the pressbox we would fully understand

 

[bdub24]

Less than zero interest in a character like Zegras coming here

 

[nine_inch_fang]

I'm fully prepped for us to claim Benning and then watch as he's dressed every game while DG is sent to the press box for the foreseeable future.

I only "liked" this comment because it seems probable. Otherwise, I hate the premise and the fact I think it's even a possibility.