Posts About "Filip Forsberg"
Penguins GM Interested in 'Impact' Free Agents
January 9th, 2021 The Pittsburgh Penguins are built to win now, but that doesn't mean their management team can't prepare themselves for the future. Pens general manager Jim Rutherford has been known to never shy away from a bold move or two, and if you ask the veteran executive, his team is preparing themselves for what's to come. Rutherford was...
Capitals Enjoy Successful Decade at World Junior Tournament
November 14th, 2020 From 2010 to 2020, the Washington Capitals enjoyed great performances from some of their top prospects at the annual World Junior Championships. Not all prospects won a gold medal for their respective countries or led their teams in scoring while at the tournament, but Caps fans saw great individual performances and, in some cases, a...
Predators Need Some Swedish Success
November 2nd, 2020 It’s no secret that the majority of National Hockey League players are Canadian, and the Nashville Predators are no exception. With ten of the twenty projected starting day players on the roster coming from Canada, the remaining fifty percent of the roster spreads out between four different countries. The Predators have solid...
Filip Forsberg Trade Revisited
May 16th, 2020 From the eighth seed in the Western Conference to the Stanley Cup Final, the Nashville Predators provided hockey fans with a wild ride through the 2017 NHL Playoffs. At the center of that playoff run was Filip Forsberg. Forsberg is just one of general manager David Poile’s many great acquisitions over the years. Since arriving in...
Capitals Don’t Win 2018 Cup Without Ex-GM McPhee
March 30th, 2020 Fewer people were cheering as much for the expansion Vegas Golden Knights in the 2018 Stanley Cup Final as then-general manager George McPhee. Fewer still had as much riding on their opponents and eventual champions, the Washington Capitals, McPhee’s last team. Capitals vs. Golden Knights Obviously, McPhee, now the Golden...
6 Predators Whose Numbers Should Be Retired
March 23rd, 2020 The Nashville Predators are a young franchise without any numbers retired besides Wayne Gretzky’s No. 99. But at some point, the team will make the move and add some numbers to the rafters. Since their entrance into the league in 1998, they have had 13 players become All-Stars and several Olympic athletes. Here are six players who...
Predators' Top Moments of the Decade
January 2nd, 2020 It’s almost time to ring in not only the new year but also a new decade. Established in 1998, the Nashville Predators have completed just their second full decade in the NHL. As one the younger teams in the league, it was not that difficult for the 2010s to be more successful than the 2000s for the squad located in the Music...
Meier's Shootout Goal Gives Sharks 2-1 Win over Predators
November 10th, 2019 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Timo Meier scored in the seventh round of the shootout and the San Jose Sharks defeated the Nashville Predators 2-1 on Saturday night. Tomas Hertl scored in regulation to help the Sharks win their third straight after losing seven of...
Predators’ Offence Putting League on Notice
October 26th, 2019 This year seems different for the Nashville Predators. The goals are coming in bunches and, for the first time in a long time, if ever, there is real confidence that they can go goal-for-goal with any team in the league. In football, some games are described as “shootouts,” meaning, high scoring and whoever has the ball last...
Ellis, Forsberg Help Predators Rally Past Wild 5-2
October 4th, 2019 NASHVILLE — Ryan Ellis and Filip Forsberg each had a goal and an assist and the Nashville Predators rallied with four goals in the final period and beat the Minnesota Wild 5-2 on Thursday night in the season opener for both teams. Mikael Granlund, Aust...
Predators’ Forsberg Still Needs to Prove He’s Elite
August 17th, 2019 NHL.com released a top-20 current wingers and no Nashville Predators made the list, not even Filip Forsberg. In addition to the top-20, the site released a “wings the bubble” list, which included five more players, and again, no Predators made that list either. Therefore, out of the top-25 wingers in the NHL, Forsberg is not deemed...
Reviewing Predators' 2018-19 Season: Forwards Edition
May 3rd, 2019 The 2018-19 season has come and gone for the Nashville Predators. An up-and-down regular season may have ended with a Central Division title, but the season ultimately concluded with a first-round exit at the hands of the Dallas Stars. An obvious letdown given the team's roster makeup and success in recent seasons, it's time to review...
Predators' JOFA Line Silent at Worst Time
April 20th, 2019 Even though the Nashville Predators and Dallas Stars are tied at two games apiece in the opening round of the 2019 Playoffs, Predators fans can't be excited or overly optimistic going forward. The games they won were both by one goal, and included an overtime victory in Game 2 and a 40-save performance by Pekka Rinne in Game 3....
