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.