Nashville Predators Talk - 2024/2025 Season

[Kat Predator]

I just really wished we had "stood pat" outside supplementing the D and seeing if we could acquire a youngish 2C. And mostly didn't want to lock into Saros long-term and give Askarov a shot.

Go in with an open mind but this has been a disaster.

The transition plan GMBT sketched has guys that are 34, 34, 33, 33, 30, and 29 as the core of a bridge group to take us to where guys we drafted this year and next are ready to shuffle in. Say we nail it in this draft. We're still talking at least a couple seasons before those gems are ready. (Bedard is still figuring it out, for example.) So we're expecting this bridge group, which sucks already, to go until they are 37, 37, 36, 36, 33, and 32? How is this a good plan?

Well, at least the winning culture shock and awe thing is working out.

 

[MrJoshua]

This is hard to watch but I’m still happy Trotz went for it. He added pieces to try to win with the Forsberg, Josi, Saros core. I get it and it only cost cap space. That said, I definitely wasn’t expecting the team to bottom out this hard this season. I thought they might do so AFTER next season, but I thought we’d see 1-2 years of really good hockey first. But this is like watching my beer league team play a college squad. They should not look this overmatched night after night.

I don’t understand the total green light every defender has to drive deep in the offensive zone on every play. Josi, sure, but none of the rest of these guys should be below the hash marks in the offensive zone.

I also don’t understand why nobody seems able to make a decent pass or play with any jump. They look slow and tired and like they’re not sure what’s going on. It’s very confusing.

 

[Armourboy]

I just really wished we had "stood pat" outside supplementing the D and seeing if we could acquire a youngish 2C. And mostly didn't want to lock into Saros long-term and give Askarov a shot.

Go in with an open mind but this has been a disaster.

Well me too, I thought signing Saros long term was a bad decision.

I think all of this stuff was a decent enough idea, its just giving these guys multi year contracts with NMC's never made any sense. I get why he kept Saros and brought in the Vets, I just didn't agree with it as a strategy.

I mean I'm like everyone else, I hoped it would work out and we would have a couple of years of fun hockey with a bit of pain on the back end while we more or less age out and replace them. Problem is I don't think we have the right coach for this group of players which is just going to increase the pain levels.

 

[sparkle twin]

I don't understand this team. There's no reason this team should be this bad.

They can't make a tape to tape pass. It's in their feet or just out of their reach.

We're beat to every lose puck, old guys and young guys. And then we're too easily knocked off the puck when we do have it. Which leads to too many penalties because our guy turns the puck over and now we're too slow so we reach out with our hand or stick.

There's no consistent center ice/net front presence. When there is, we've scored goals, but that's for one game then it's gone the next game.

They keep passing up shots, trying to be too cute and make these highlight passes that are broken up or are to the other team and it's right back out of our zone.

I mean, these are hockey 101 basics, but they just aren't doing them!

 

[ShagDaddy]

Just an FYI. I sent my resume to Haslam tonight to be the new GM of the Nashville Predators. Wish me luck!

 

[Scoresberg]

>spend +100 mil in the off-season to load up on veterans with long-term deals
>couple months after announce going into rebuild

#onlypredsthings

In all seriousness, that's not how any of this works. We're stuck with what we have and I have zero believe that we will end up with a top-five pick next summer. They will figure things out to a degree and end up with a pick in the 13-16 range. Rinse and repeat next year.