Nashville Predators talk - The Offseason

[Porter Stoutheart]

I would do a 1 year league minimum for Suter to stay in the pressbox as 7th dman but that is it

No. Maybe a 1-yr league minimum so we could shoot him out of a cannon on opening night? Then if he miraculously survives, send him down to Atlanta?

 

[Viqsi]

I know you are gun shy because of the crap team Columbus has been, but at a certain point you gotta play some of the younger guys, otherwise what the hell are you drafting them for? You can't wait til they are all 28 to start playing them.

Of course they need to be played, and the kids here haven't gotten nearly enough minutes. I'm just cautioning against going too far in the other direction.

 

[Top 6 Spaling]

Well, there goes the Myers plan. 3x3 to stay in Vancouver

 

[wmupreds]

Well, there goes the Myers plan. 3x3 to stay in Vancouver

That.. actually might be an ok deal. For all the crap he's gotten for inconsistent play and not living up to the hype, by all accounts Myers was pretty effective this last year.

That being said, I'm glad he won't be coming here. At 34 with an inconsistent past, I wouldn't want any piece of what he'd have ended up getting on the open market.

 

[Roman Yoshi]

Myer would've been a nice option for the Preds.

 

[Roman Yoshi]

Washington is really cooking something.

 

[triggrman]

Myer would've been a nice option for the Preds.

You think? He’s a taller Lauzon. Consistently chasing the play or the big hit

 

[Kat Predator]

Dang. No Chaos Giraffe.

 

[Predsanddead24]

Well I missed on my Myer prediction but my Saros contract prediction looks like it may be spot on.

 

[JD86]

7.7 AAV for Saros is pretty nice. Being tied to a 29 year goalie for 9 years is very not nice. But I guess that's a problem for the future.

I just don't really understand the direction of this franchise at all

 

[Top 6 Spaling]

I just don't really understand the direction of this franchise at all

Maybe we all mis-heard Trotz and we're trying to stay in the mushy middle?

 

[wmupreds]

The AAV is fine. The idea of an 8 year contract is simply a mistake. The franchise continues to refuse to pick a lane.

 

[hockey diva]

why are we tying up so much for a goalie who going to decline and has yet to win a playoff series? Trotz has lost me as a fan with this latest decision. More mushy middle coming up.

 

[Roman Yoshi]

Yeah I had a feeling. Dark day as a franchise for sure. Youth movement is over.

 

[Predsanddead24]

The AAV is fine. The idea of an 8 year contract is simply a mistake. The franchise continues to refuse to pick a lane.

They’ve kind of got to push all the chips in and try and win while Saros, Forsberg, and Josi are still good at this point in my opinion.

 

[Soundgarden]

Guys, Draft and FA haven't even started yet, maybe let's wait a bit on the whole dark day for the franchise/lost all faith in Trotz talk?

Look at Bob, who's contract is still like 3mill more than what Saros is going to make, he literally just won the cup two days ago.

 

[hockey diva]

Still you don't have to give him an 8 year deal! This supremely stupid and tells me Trotz hasn't learned a darn thing since he left.

 

[JD86]

Yeah I had a feeling. Dark day as a franchise for sure. Youth movement is over.

When did it start?

 

[nullednumbed]

Guys, Draft and FA haven't even started yet, maybe let's wait a bit on the whole dark day for the franchise/lost all faith in Trotz talk?

Look at Bob, who's contract is still like 3mill more than what Saros is going to make, he literally just won the cup two days ago.

I will accept your argument when Trotz delivers players akin to Tkachuk, Barkov, Reinhart, etc. Put those guys on the Preds and I will be estatic with Saros backing them up.

 

[Roman Yoshi]

Guys, Draft and FA haven't even started yet, maybe let's wait a bit on the whole dark day for the franchise/lost all faith in Trotz talk?

Look at Bob, who's contract is still like 3mill more than what Saros is going to make, he literally just won the cup two days ago.

The issue that I have is that it's so predictable. We have one of the top 3 goalie prospects in the league and we are going to drain his value and trade him for scraps in a couple of years.

It's just more of the same.

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

Guys, Draft and FA haven't even started yet, maybe let's wait a bit on the whole dark day for the franchise/lost all faith in Trotz talk?

Look at Bob, who's contract is still like 3mill more than what Saros is going to make, he literally just won the cup two days ago.

Even with a Cup win Bob's still probably taking a 1st+ to get traded elsewhere.

I will accept your argument when Trotz delivers players akin to Tkachuk, Barkov, Reinhart, etc. Put those guys on the Preds and I will be estatic with Saros backing them up.

We're going to get 1st line center Martin Necas.

 

[Soundgarden]

The issue that I have is that it's so predictable. We have one of the top 3 goalie prospects in the league and we are going to drain his value and trade him for scraps in a couple of years.

It's just more of the same.

Or we can platoon them until he shows he can hang in the league, like we did with Vokoun and Rinne and Saros.

 

[Top 6 Spaling]

They’ve kind of got to push all the chips in and try and win while Saros, Forsberg, and Josi are still good at this point in my opinion.

I have a lot of doubts those can be the three best players on a serious contender, and we have no path to getting another player of that caliber on the team. The other options is a true rebuild, which the Preds are fully alergic to and have been their entire existence.

I don't think giving any soon-to-be-30 goalie and 8 year contract is a good plan, period. The position is just too unpredictable. The Askarov thing is icing on the cake, but even if the cupboard was bare, it's a bad idea.

 

[Soundgarden]

Remember when we gave Rinne his retirement contract and everyone said how bad it was?

 

[Top 6 Spaling]

Remember when we gave Rinne his retirement contract and everyone said how bad it was?

We got lucky on one, absolutely. But if we keep rolling the dice, we're eventually going to be burned.

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We're just hoping Saros beats the odds and stays flat/gets better. But hope isn't a strategy, especially when the odds are stacked against you.

For the record, I'm glad we're keeping him around. A 8M x 4year deal would have had me over the moon. I just hate the age 34-38 years when, in theory, we could have a competitive team with all the draft picks we're stocked with.