Posts About "Mike Fisher"
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...
Predators' Top-5 Storylines of 2018
January 3rd, 2019 The 2018 calendar year was an eventful, and for the most part, a good year for the Nashville Predators. From Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, they went 53-23-8. They won at least 50 percent of their games in every month but December and lost two or fewer games in January, February and April. Ryan Johansen paced the team with 15 goals and 64...
Predators Survive the Avalanche
March 18th, 2018 Friday night featured a potential first-round matchup between the Nashville Predators and the Colorado Avalanche. As it sits on Saturday afternoon, the Avalanche will narrowly miss the best in the West and the Predators will likely take on the Dallas Stars. Although the Stars and Avalanche are tied in points, the Avalanche have a game in...
Predators Smother Dangerous Stars
March 8th, 2018 The season is starting to wind down and the playoffs are inching closer. The Central Division remains the cream of the crop in the NHL and the race is only getting tighter. The Nashville Predators, Winnipeg Jets, Minnesota Wild, and Dallas Stars are all jockeying for position and the competition is getting nastier by the day. Tuesday...
Predators Have Fisher Back and It's a Good Thing
March 4th, 2018 Friday night was no ordinary game for the Nashville Predators. News broke that Roman Josi, Craig Smith and others would sit the game out for unknown reasons while one very important player would make his season debut. Mike Fisher stepped onto the ice at Rogers Arena and all those in Nashville could hardly contain their excitement. Their...
Nashville Predators: Is Signing Mike Fisher A Good Idea?
February 10th, 2018 The Nashville Predators announced a new signing of an old face. Mike Fisher in making his return to the Music City, and it's not exactly a good move. The Central Division is once again the Thunderdome and teams are loading up. The St. Louis Blues are looking at Mike Hoffman, the Stars are looking at Rick Nash, and the Nashville...
Nothing Fishy About Mike Fisher's Return
February 1st, 2018 No Stanley Cup playoff drive should be complete without an image of a bearded, sweating Mike Fisher hunched over with his stick down approaching a face-off. Thankfully, in 2018 it won't have to be. With the Nashville Predators primed for a meaningful Cup run on the shoulders of goaltender Pekka Rinne and the most mobile and...
Mike Fisher's Return to the NHL
January 31st, 2018 It's official, the Nashville Predators have announced that forward and former captain Mike Fisher is ending his retirement and returning to the team amid their strong season. The news was originally broken by The Tennessean. Fisher spent parts of seven seasons with the Predators between 2010-11 (traded by the Ottawa Senators) and...
Predators: David Poile's 5 Best Moves
December 18th, 2017 David Poile has been the general manager of the Nashville Predators since day one. He escorted the expansion franchise carefully into the National Hockey League back in 1997 and for long stretches of time, the hockey world wasn't sure they'd see ten seasons with a lack of stars and dwindling support. Since then though, he has quietly...
Nashville Predators Name Roman Josi Captain
September 19th, 2017 The Nashville Predators will open the upcoming 2017-18 season with Roman Josi as their new captain after unveiling the news at training camp on Tuesday. Josi replace Mike Fisher who spent 2016-17 as the Predators’ captain before retiring shortly after the season. Josi becomes the third team captain in the past three years with Shea...
Preds' Mike Fisher Retires From NHL
August 3rd, 2017 It’s been 18 years since Mike Fisher laced up his skates for his first taste of NHL hockey. At that time, he was a member of the Ottawa Senators - the team that drafted him 44th overall in the 1998 Entry Draft. But on Thursday, Fisher decided to hang up his skates and retire from the game he helped grow in Nashville over the past...
Should the Wild Sign Mike Fisher?
July 22nd, 2017 We're closing in on the end of July and the Minnesota Wild still have some moves to make. The Wild are without a veteran fourth-line center. They have some talented young players who are looking to crack the lineup, but veteran depth never hurts. Matt Cullen has been on the Wild's radar for most of the summer. However, Cullen is still...
Predators Need to Be Perfect
June 1st, 2017 Smashville has to feel duped. For the first two games of the franchise's first Stanley Cup Final appearance, the Nashville Predators have looked nothing like the team they were a month ago. Up until now, the story was about Nashville getting hot at the right time, but after a disheartening 4 - 1 loss in Game 2, the Preds have now gone...
