The 2025-26 Nashville Predators are a team stuck in a quagmire. Is there any hope of this team getting out of the mud?
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Why couldn't they just trade Stamkos for EP40 + other assets at the deadline to "get younger"?
Trotz should demote himself to coach and hire someone competent as GM.
The predators are a cupless team and the longer they stay that way the worse it gets for them as a franchise from an optics/marketing standpoint. They've been in the league long enough for their general fanbase to learn about hockey, understand it and ultimately want more than just going to the games as a night out with friends or watching it on TV for entertainment value. They want cups much like Florida and Vegas and I suspect that frustration will grow if they fail to evolve past being an expansion franchise and move to actually existing as a serious sports franchise that has one or possibly multiple cups.
I don't think their fans want to turn into Buffalo or Minnesota or even the leafs where they either have never won despite decades of trying or failed miserably many times.
People don't usually remember the bad teams…But these Predators could be studied in history books for YEARS.
Nashville may rebound strong, everyone had a career year in the wrong direction, i see them making playoffs
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cant wait to see your take on the caps, hendrix lapierre, mcmicheal, sourdif, who plays 3 line center ? free agent, sounds crazy but would love Kadri.
No star player segment?
Issue with Nashville is that they really weren’t that good in 2023-24 but rode a hot streak to playoffs and they doubled down on the team in the off Szn adding older guys on the decline, however at the time it made sense but in hindsight it’s kinda clear this was gonna happen even if they have a year or two of success