Nashville Predators Talk - 2024/2025 Season

[Viqsi]

What it would appear is we all (the fans) thought we were already X far toward a rebuild if the org pivoted that direction, but in Trotz's mind we haven't even started laying the groundwork yet and all that stuff we thought we had stocked up is actually just trash. I doubt we see anybody we currently have outside of maybe Molendyk and ZLH to emerge. There's a very rough path ahead.

I can understand the bolded to some degree (in the Jackets' system, most of the Preds' quality prospects would be Quality Prospect Depth rather than the leading guys), but I don't think it's anywhere near that extreme and certainly not enough to justify giving guys away for free or next to free.

 

[Flgatorguy87]

Has Tomasino been playing center in either the NHL or the AHL?

Negative. He's barely played at all since his initial year, but he's exclusively a wing in his time here.

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

I can understand the bolded to some degree (in the Jackets' system, most of the Preds' quality prospects would be Quality Prospect Depth rather than the leading guys), but I don't think it's anywhere near that extreme and certainly not enough to justify giving guys away for free or next to free.

Neither do I, and how we've also systematically destroyed these guys' value is also an extremely frustrating part of this.

 

[Soundgarden]

Neither do I, and how we've also systematically destroyed these guys' value is also an extremely frustrating part of this.

Right; there's no reason why a recent first shouldn't have some value. We cratered all of our guys value.

 

[ShagDaddy]

 

[nine_inch_fang]

This management style feels like the Blackhawks of the 80s-90s(ish). So many players that flourished once leaving for whatever reason while the teams is one of the worst in the league.

 

[Armourboy]

Team stinks but Trotz keeps trading away the guys that Brunette won't play. Yeah that will fix it Barry.

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

Wooeee, I tell ya...those that wanted Poile to retire and for something different...different is here alright. Wild!

Right about now what I wish Trotz would have taken from Poile is the latter usually did a pretty solid job of explaining his reasoning. Agree or not, you could usually see the thought process, and he was fairly candid once the moves were done. E.g. Tolvanen was a fence case and they thought they could sneak him through, Turris was bought out cause he was trash, eyc...

The crickets are more unnerving than the moves

 

[Armourboy]

I don't know why I'm watching this crap.

 

[ShagDaddy]

July 1, 2025 is the date Haslam makes his final payment and becomes majority owner of the organization.

 

[Armourboy]

Forsberg scores shooting from the halfwall, can't get anyone to pull the trigger since then.

 

[Kat Predator]

At this point, it just looks like Trotz is going to purge everything Poile did. Re-signing Saros long term is the outlier. What's the over/under on trading him before the NMC kicks in again?

 

[Roman Yoshi]

Wooeee, I tell ya...those that wanted Poile to retire and for something different...different is here alright. Wild!

Right about now what I wish Trotz would have taken from Poile is the latter usually did a pretty solid job of explaining his reasoning. Agree or not, you could usually see the thought process, and he was fairly candid once the moves were done. E.g. Tolvanen was a fence case and they thought they could sneak him through, Turris was bought out cause he was trash, eyc...

The crickets are more unnerving than the moves

I'm sorry but I don't think Poile ever left the building. Poile's scouts. Poile's guys. Poile's son. He may not be the GM but his spirit lives on.

I think many of us wanted a completely new direction

 

[Armourboy]

See we are back to giving up a ton of odd man rushes and Saros not stopping them.

And the Dmen playing down low again. Guess it wasn't an adjustment in Winnipeg, just a fluke.

 

[Armourboy]

Yeah turning this off. Saros throwing the puck right out to the slot, no clue where he was even sending it. Trotz can do whatever he wants with the players, until he gets rid of his coach it isn't going to matter.

 

[glenngineer]

I’ve never seen a team struggle so much for so long game in and game out at getting shots on net. We’ve gone almost full periods without a shot on net. We go 10 minute stretches of no shots on net way too much.

Any team that has Schenn leading rushes what appears to be happening every game has no reason to keep their coach. That coach should be banished and never be allowed to coach again.

 

[herzausstein]

Should trade Evangelista. This was clearly his fault

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

I'll give them this, I don't think I've ever seen this board as unified as it is currently. So...that's something.

 

[101st_fan]

 

[bdub24]

I'll give them this, I don't think I've ever seen this board as unified as it is currently. So...that's something.

…maybe it wasnt about the journey..
Maybe it was about the hate we learned along the way

 

[Roman Yoshi]

I can't believe we've given up Fabbro, Tomasino and Askarov so far in three months.

This freaking team man. It's painful to be a fan.

 

[Viqsi]

…maybe it wasnt about the journey..
Maybe it was about the hate we learned along the way

That looks like a good choice for my next signature quote.

 

[bdub24]

That looks like a good choice for my next signature quote.

Do it!

 

[101st_fan]

In just over a year the team moved on from Poile as GM, fired Hynes and replaced him with Bruno, and made the biggest splash on day one of free agency. The result is a lineup full of proven vets but a coach with only one trick up his sleeve that doesn't adjust to the talent available .... and most of Poile's picks out of the organization while Trotz makes some questionable signings (Schenn at 2.75 after he played six seasons at 1.25 or below). Something has to give. Either Bruno goes so we can find a coach that can adjust to the players he has ... Trotz goes for moving three former first round picks for so little in return ... or this year becomes the new norm.

Nothing indicates that Bruno can make things work and Trotz's big signings have too many clauses and too large of a cap hit to easily move. The one deal that looks good at least in the short term is Saros who is performing well right now ... but brining in Wedgewood and Murray cost the team Askarov.

 

[Top 6 Spaling]

I, for one, am starting to think having someone go straight from Coach to GM might not have been a good idea