Nashville Predators

There’s a lot of pressure being a 7th overall pick in a draft, but probably a little more so when you’re instantly expected to be an offensive leader on a team that doesn’t have a whole lot of offense to begin with. This year has been a tough one for Wilson, being in his first full NHL season and having to adjust to all the travel can be difficult for a new player especially one coming out of college. Now this isn’t his first season in the NHL as he did play 35 games with the Predators last year, but broken up by injuries and being sent down to Milwaukee. Wilson last year damaged his groin area and played a majority of the year injured until finally doctors were able to ...

When Sergei Kostitsyn was first traded to Nashville for Ellis and Boyd there was both optimism and uncertainty within the fans of the Predators. They had virtually traded two players who were going to leave the team regardless on July 1st and go into free agency for a player who was a RFA and had potential but also some bad history. Fans were hoping that moving away from his brother Andrei and locating to a team that generally flow under the radar would help him become the hockey player he had shown promises of becoming. Sergei Kostitsyn was drafted in the 2005 draft by Montreal and was taken 200th overall in the seventh round. The year after he was drafted he posted 131 point...

After a loss to the St.Louis Blues last night in a close game where the Preds outworked and outplayed the Blues for majority of the game but lose in shootout, I figured it would be appropriate to start this series by looking at the team’s offense. While the team has suffered some critical injuries that are key to the Preds offense such as Lombardi, Legwand, Goc and Suter for extended times, their offense has still been underwhelming. Currently in the standing Nashville sits at 28th in the league in goals per game at 2.25 and their power play is 29th at a measly 9.6%. In this article I am not going to discuss the power play as that will come later in the series so for now I a...

It was a fitting end to a losing streak of 5 games for the Nashville Predators, one that started and ended with St.Louis. The dreadful streak began just before the Predators went on a 5 game road trip. They were at home against none other than the Blues and lost that game 3-0. Before that game, the Predators were atop the central division and slowly fell, being taken over by their opponents of tonight the Blues. It seems as for now the ship has been righted and a streak that began in Nashville and ended in St.Louis is a fitting end and a game that lived up to the division rivalry hype. The Predators and Blues had already met twice before and both had taken a game in the season se...