Posts About "Matt Duchene"
Predators Need Sophomore Surge From Duchene
September 16th, 2020 Look up and down the Nashville Predators’ roster. Who’s their game changer? Who’s the player you have the most confidence in to score a big goal when the team needs it most? Based on the last few seasons and the way they’ve ended, it may be safe to say you’re scratching your head for an answer. Sure, Filip Forsberg is one of...
Predators Can't Afford To Do Nothing This Offseason
September 4th, 2020 The Nashville Predators began the season with +1450 odds to win the Stanley Cup, which had them placed with the eighth-best odds to win hockey's most coveted prize. Ahead of them in sixth and seventh place, respectively, were the Washington Capitals and St. Louis Blues, the last two teams to win it all. Related: 10 Reasons Hockey Is...
10 Reasons Hockey Is the Greatest Sport on Earth
September 3rd, 2020 If you're reading this, you're probably already aware that hockey is the undisputed best sport on the planet. But if you really need some extra convincing, here's a list of ten things (in no particular order) that make hockey the greatest sport on Earth: 1. It's Played on a Giant Sheet of Ice Football, basketball, baseball - what...
Predators Have Necessary Pieces to Recover From Disappointing Season
August 27th, 2020 It was not that long ago when the Nashville Predators were the plucky underdog, who were, dare we say it, easy to root for. However, after making a Stanley Cup Final appearance in 2017, the organization has regressed and regressed badly. In the 2018 playoffs they were eliminated in the second round, then took a first-round exit, and...
Predators Bitten By Lack of Second Line Production, Again
August 6th, 2020 The Nashville Predators find themselves down 2-1 in their best-of-five Qualifying Round series against the Arizona Coyotes after dropping Game 3 by a final score of 4-1. In such a short series it goes without saying that each game is critical. The Predators have lost two games and are already on the brink of elimination. There will...
Top 5 Disappointing Players of 2019-20
May 25th, 2020 NHL players have immense skill and playmaking ability, and often this combination produces jaw-dropping highlights and impressive statistics. David Pastrnak had 48 goals in 70 games, while Mika Zibanejad had an astonishing 41 in 57. Leon Draisaitl averaged almost an assist per game with 67 in 71. Players like Pastrnak and Draisaitl are...
5 Worst Trades in Senators History
May 4th, 2020 The Ottawa Senators have made their fair share of trades throughout their history. Some of those moves have seen them come out on top, but others have fans wondering what just happened. As with any NHL team, the return an organization can get for a particular player or pick can vary a great deal. Are they buyers or sellers at the trade...
Top 5 All-Time Avalanche Trades
April 27th, 2020 Over the past 25 seasons since they moved from Quebec in 1995, the Colorado Avalanche have made a handful of trades whose legacy was felt for seasons after the transaction itself. This list will discuss the five franchise-defining trades in Avalanche history (not Quebec Nordiques, so the Peter Forsberg/Eric...
Blue Jackets Q&A With Director of Legal Affairs Peter Lovins
April 14th, 2020 Welcome back to our 2020 Columbus Blue Jackets Q&A series. In this series, we are going to talk with different members of the Blue Jackets’ community about hockey, their jobs, how they’re handling things today and much more. Today in part five, Director of Legal Affairs Peter Lovins stopped by. We start with a great behind...
Predators: Evaluating Matt Duchene's First Season in Nashville
April 8th, 2020 Matt Duchene’s first season with the Nashville Predators was not what general manager David Poile had hoped for when he signed the 28-year-old forward away from the Columbus Blue Jackets last summer. Duchene was without question the second-best unrestricted free agent on the market, after Artemi Panarin, and he was rewarded with a...
Avs Go From the Basement to Contenders in 3 Years
March 7th, 2020 How did the Colorado Avalanche transform themselves from one of the league’s worst teams, with 48 points in 2016-17, to contending for the top seed in the Western Conference in three short years? Changes. Lots and lots of changes. And it all started with current general manager Joe Sakic. The Perfect Storm – 2016-17...
John Hynes Wins Revenge Game Against Devils
February 1st, 2020 He wouldn’t admit it, to the surprise of no one who has spoken with the former New Jersey Devils head coach, but it sure had to feel good for John Hynes and his Nashville Predators leave New Jersey with a 6-5 shootout win on Jan. 30. The Devils fired Hynes less than two months ago and he was hired by the Predators nine games ago...
NHL's Top 5 Goals of the Decade
January 23rd, 2020 In a 10-year span that has seen so much talent, and so many incredible moments, how could you possibly narrow it down to five superb goals? It's a difficult ask to say the least, but we attempt to find the five most spectacular goals from the NHL decade. From the elite superstars of the game to the depth players who only see a rare...
