Nashville Predators Talk - 2024/2025 Season

[Roman Yoshi]

It honestly is sweaters on the ice time.

 

[Armourboy]

It honestly is sweaters on the ice time.

People in Nashville won't do that though. Honestly looks like they are going a different route, just selling tickets for whatever they can get out of them and just not going. That last night reminded me of when the franchise was trying to find its legs and the owners were just happy to have any butts in the seats at all.

 

[Roman Yoshi]

I mean I don't know. I only know this organization needs one hell of a wakeup call

 

[Armourboy]

I'll put it like this: I will throw one on the ice if I have to before the season is over. It's time for this organization to wake up.

I mean good luck to you. If the first half of the season didn't wake them up, fans selling tickets left and right don't wake them up, I'm not sure a sweater from one fan will.

 

[Roman Yoshi]

I mean good luck to you. If the first half of the season didn't wake them up, fans selling tickets left and right don't wake them up, I'm not sure a sweater from one fan will.

It's all the fans fault right? That's what we are being sold by the media.

 

[Roman Yoshi]

I mean good luck to you. If the first half of the season didn't wake them up, fans selling tickets left and right don't wake them up, I'm not sure a sweater from one fan will.

And the selling tickets part is exactly my issue right? Like what are we supposed to do as fans? They are just going to be happy with revenue coming in from out of towners. More drastic measures have to be taken in order for the echo chamber to take note that those loyal to the team for a decade plus are fed up.

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

It's all the fans fault right? That's what we are being sold by the media.

Hell, not just the media. There's been at least three posts here in a couple days blaming the fans or questioning the intelligence of the hockey market.

 

[hido]

This is the most lame-ass crap I have heard come out of this guy's mouth yet. I just don't get it. He's floundering and at this point it is on all Trotz and ownership. This guy has no business being the HC of this team. I hope we lose out. I am so over it. I can't wait for them to send out the "it's time to renew your season tickets" email:

Andrew Brunette ready to 'go back to drawing the board' after Predators' latest frustrating loss​

Alex Daugherty
The Nashville Predators' latest loss, a 4-1 defeat to the Washington Capitals at Bridgestone Arena on Saturday, was a familiar nightmare for coach Andrew Brunette.

"I thought we had all kinds of chances," Brunette said after the loss. "But it's a little mystifying at times ... (goals) just aren't going in."

Nashville outshot Washington 33-16, but Logan Thompson's 32 saves carried the Capitals to their 28th win of the season. Thompson's stellar play frustrated Nashville all night, leaving Brunette at a loss for why the Predators' skilled offensive players were unable to put more pucks in the net.

"They're still swinging, they're still digging in and taking their swings ... they're just missing right now," Brunette said.

Andrew Brunette frustrated about lack of offense for Nashville Predators​

Brunette said Saturday's loss is one of about 20 games he could recall in which the Predators were the better team at 5-on-5, but could not get goals to fall.

He said it's led to many conversations with the team about confidence and staying the course amid frustrating results.

"We talked a little bit before Christmas just to feel a little bit better about themselves," Brunette said. "I think everybody's going through a heck of a year right now, where nothing's really going their way. I probably wouldn't say that if I didn't think they were bringing it every night and working every night. When you see that, you feel bad, because you can see the effort is there. You can see they're trying ... it's just nothing's really going our way."

According to Natural Stat Trick, the Predators generated 2.50 expected goals to the Capitals' 1.13. Expected goals are calculated based on shot quality, rather than quantity, so it would suggest Nashville should have outperformed Washington during 5-on-5 play — instead Washington outscored Nashville 2-0 during 5-on-5.

It's something that's been happening all season. The Predators have consistently underperformed during 5-on-5 play, mostly due to their league low 5.9 shooting percentage.

"The margins in this league are very small," Brunette said. "And when our shooting percentage is where it's at, for us, it's even smaller. So it's a tough one to explain. It's about as crazy as I think I've seen it."

Still, Brunette isn't blaming it all on bad luck. He said the team could bring more direct play and more confident shooting to help improve the chances of scoring.

"There's still more there for us," he said. "We left some on the table. Maybe we got a little bit cute at different times. We're still in this mode where we're deferring to guys instead of being more direct."

With 40 games left, and with the Predators in seventh place in the Central Division, Brunette knows there's little time to reverse the trend.

"I credit (the players) for coming to work every day and bringing that energy and bringing the effort," Brunette said. "Let's go back to the to the drawing board and find some solutions for them."

The Predators host the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday (7 p.m., FanDuel Sports Network)

 

[Top 6 Spaling]

It isn't wrong that we've had a lot of games where we "should" have scored more goals, but the reality is we paid a gazillion dollars to bring in goal scorers who aren't scoring goals. As I've said I couple times, we are playing more like a team that should be 20th in the standings instead of 29th....but who cares? Even if we were getting league average shooting %, bounces, "puck luck", whatever you want to call it, we're the oldest team in the league and would be in a tooth and nail fight for the last wild card spot. This is likely the best roster we'll have for the next 2-3 years.

The best case scenario is bad - that's not a good sign.

 

[Roman Yoshi]

Hell, not just the media. There's been at least three posts here in a couple days blaming the fans or questioning the intelligence of the hockey market.

Are these people I've blocked lol. I haven't seen that.

 

[NoNecksCurse]

Are these people I've blocked lol. I haven't seen that.

He’s referencing one of my posts. In my post, I am referring to our local media and the fanbase outside of HF. Just to be clear.

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

Are these people I've blocked lol. I haven't seen that.

Hah, maybe one or two. There seems to be a strong element right now of if the fanbase was more visibly/loudly upset then changes would already be made. I just don't think that's realistic, for a variety of reasons. Maybe a little more pressure on Brunette, but Trotz would still be safe as can be.

He’s referencing one of my posts. In my post, I am referring to our local media and the fanbase outside of HF. Just to be clear.

Hah, I was actually going to qualify one of them as being more about that.

 

[Roman Yoshi]

He’s referencing one of my posts. In my post, I am referring to our local media and the fanbase outside of HF. Just to be clear.

Oh I understood what you were saying lol

 

[NoNecksCurse]

Hah, maybe one or two. There seems to be a strong element right now of if the fanbase was more visibly/loudly upset then changes would already be made. I just don't think that's realistic, for a variety of reasons. Maybe a little more pressure on Brunette, but Trotz would still be safe as can be.


Hah, I was actually going to qualify one of them as being more about that.

As an example of what I am really trying to convey was going back to the 2023 draft we had in Nashville. I went to it and watched live. I was watching our table to see any convos Trotz had with other teams. This period was the beginning of the Saros or Askarov dialogue. I thought we should have shopped Saros. Well, it came out Trotz was shopping Askarov instead. I was very much against it. I posted as much on Twitter and Facebook, and I got absolutely buried. It started with even getting chirped by one of our local media members on Twitter. I was called all kinds of insults for merely drifting from the position of authority. There is this weird thinking among a lot of our fanbase that anything the organization does is the correct thing. I think it stems from always having Poile or Trotz in the position of ultimate power. We don’t know anything else as a franchise. Our fanbase on HF is great. As well as the fanbase as a whole knows all the rules of hockey. I remember before the lockout in 03-04 there were sheets that would be passed out explaining icing. We are way beyond that.

 

[Viqsi]

Are these people I've blocked lol. I haven't seen that.

At least one of them almost certainly is, mostly because that's been said guy's schtick for the last several years and so their coming back with it yet again was very predictable.

 

[wmupreds]

The thing is, I'm not even mad the team sucks. I considered the team sucking in the near future an inevitability eventually given the core aging and being broken apart. As a last ditch effort, I think there was logic in Trotz going big game hunting this offseason, especially after he re-signed Saros. I didn't think it'd be this bad, but I figured there was a decent chance it wouldn't work, in which case we weren't really any worse off than before other than some rich peoples' money getting spent.

What's not forgivable is responding to a vet-laden team sucking by throwing a bunch of young guys away. Now we are worse off and we suck.