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Nashville Predators Talk - 2024/2025 Season

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Armourboy said:
Playoffs aren't a thing unless we basically win out and the teams in front of us just all completely collapse.
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Oh, they're very much a thing. None of the teams battling for that 8th seed are convincing. With two more wins, we're 5 points behind the Blues with the same amount of games played.

People seem to be quick in forgetting that even last year the turn-around didn't start until mid-FEBRUARY. And Nyquist said in an interview earlier this year that they're all just settling into Bruno's system (he was talking about the new-comers mainly) as it takes an unusually long time to get acclimated into the system.

There's still almost half the season to be played. We have the easiest schedule in the whole league. I'm not saying they'll absolutely make the playoffs (won't be surprised if they do, though) but it'll be damn close.
 
We are basically in a win 2 lose 1 type of situation. We just hit our 1st 4 game winning streak of the season. The one thing we got going for us is that we have the easiest schedule out of any team for the remaining schedule. Is it possible to make the playoffs? Technically yes. Is it realistic? No, which is why i think we end up somewhere between 8th and 13th overall pick in the 1st round. Itll be good enough to keep Bruno and for Trotz to try and add in the offseason.
 
Scoresberg said:
Oh, they're very much a thing. None of the teams battling for that 8th seed are convincing. With two more wins, we're 5 points behind the Blues with the same amount of games played.

People seem to be quick in forgetting that even last year the turn-around didn't start until mid-FEBRUARY. And Nyquist said in an interview earlier this year that they're all just settling into Bruno's system (he was talking about the new-comers mainly) as it takes an unusually long time to get acclimated into the system.

There's still almost half the season to be played. We have the easiest schedule in the whole league. I'm not saying they'll absolutely make the playoffs (won't be surprised if they do, though) but it'll be damn close.
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We were in a playoff spot at this point last season though. We were on the outside looking in when the win streak started but only by four points versus ten points now so we have a lot more ground to make up. For us to be in the playoff hunt is going to require us to essentially play at a President's Trophy pace for the rest of the season, which we did do last season but I'm not sure I'd bet on it happening again. And even if we do manage that pace we're still just on the bubble and depending on none of the teams ahead of us in the wild card hunt get hot either.
 
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Even with the easy schedule we're at 2.2% chance now. I saw our team come out flat and go down 5-1 to an awful awful tanking team playing a back-to-back game. Ok, they collapsed and we did come back to win. But I'm not going to get too carried away thinking our team can beat the odds and make the playoffs.

But given this draft is really only going to move the needle if we get a #1C candidate - i.e. picking in the top-5 - I'm pretty comfortable predicting we're not bad enough to get that high a pick, and nor will our braintrust in any way invest in trying to improve our chances of getting a higher pick. So, I would write that possibility off just as readily as I write off our possibility of making the playoffs.

Where does that leave us? Picking 7th or 9th or 13th... I don't think any of those spots really matters much for our long-term outlook. So, forget the draft. In which case... win, set a good tone, a good vibe for next season, I guess. As long as we keep playing Svechkov, Novak, ZLH, maybe boost up Annunen's starts a bit along the way too. And don't shy away from taking any asset-maximizing returns on irrelevant veterans at the TDL (Nyquist, Lauzon, Sissons, Schenn etc). Then it's all good. Win as many games as possible, get some positivity back, lock Bruno in for another year, pick 11th, so be it. Maybe we can still set ourselves up a little better for next season if we end this one on a less gloomy note.
 
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Porter Stoutheart said:
Even with the easy schedule we're at 2.2% chance now. I saw our team come out flat and go down 5-1 to an awful awful tanking team playing a back-to-back game. Ok, they collapsed and we did come back to win. But I'm not going to get too carried away thinking our team can beat the odds and make the playoffs.

But given this draft is really only going to move the needle if we get a #1C candidate - i.e. picking in the top-5 - I'm pretty comfortable predicting we're not bad enough to get that high a pick, and nor will our braintrust in any way invest in trying to improve our chances of getting a higher pick. So, I would write that possibility off just as readily as I write off our possibility of making the playoffs.

Where does that leave us? Picking 7th or 9th or 13th... I don't think any of those spots really matters much for our long-term outlook. So, forget the draft. In which case... win, set a good tone, a good vibe for next season, I guess. As long as we keep playing Svechkov, Novak, ZLH, maybe boost up Annunen's starts a bit along the way too. And don't shy away from taking any asset-maximizing returns on irrelevant veterans at the TDL (Nyquist, Lauzon, Sissons, Schenn etc). Then it's all good. Win as many games as possible, get some positivity back, lock Bruno in for another year, pick 11th, so be it. Maybe we can still set ourselves up a little better for next season if we end this one on a less gloomy note.
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Pretty much summarized where I am at. I think we are playing at this point, to prove that this team actually can be better than they've shown.
 
Good thing is that if we do end up near the 10 pick, there should still be some good d prospects on the board. End up with a Hensler, Mrtka, or Smith. Not really the top C prospect i want but we do really need dmen too
 
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