Poile wants to see what happens through an eight-game road trip ending March 21 at Dallas. Yet Duchene has just eight points in 23 games with a minus-11 rating. Center Matt Duchene also is getting $8 million through the 2025-26 season. Ryan Johansen, who scored his first goal this season Thursday night and has only five assists, is being paid $8 million a year through the 2024-25 season.
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Forward Mikael Granlund will be a free agent.īut Nashville will be limited by some of the contracts Poile gave out. Forsberg has another season left at $6 million. He has nine points in 16 games, including four goals in four games, earning $3.75 million a year through next season. Once Poile decides it’s time to rebuild, defenseman Mattias Ekholm could be the first traded. Asked if he’s concerned about his job after the latest loss, Hynes said no. That’s not how you get off to a good start.” “We’re going to go in the game and see how the game’s going to be played. “We seem to be a reactionary group,” Hynes said. He said Wednesday they had to understand they can’t “dip our toe into the water” to see how a game might go. Hynes has been trying to get the Predators to start games better.
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Hynes has had to coach through the NHL’s pause, a restart that Nashville lost its best-of-five qualifying series to Arizona in four games. Poile made a rare in-season coaching change in January 2020, firing Peter Laviolette and hiring John Hynes a day later. “I don’t know why we’re not doing that,” Arvidsson said. Forward Viktor Arvidsson, who had three assists Thursday night, said they know they can play better and just need to play that way for 60 minute instead of the final 20. Nashville has led after the first period only three times this season and is 1-2 in those games. “There’s something we have to fix and pretty quick,” said forward Filip Forsberg, the Predators’ leading scorer with 22 points in 23 games. The Predators have been outscored 52-22 through the first two periods combined, though they have a 30-21 edge in the third. They’re also last trailing after both the first and second periods. The Predators also rank 28th in 5-on-5 play. Nashville is 28th scoring an average of 2.35 goals a game, and only five teams are giving up more goals per game than the Predators’ 3.17. The team that created Smashville showing off the likes of Carrie Underwood and Vince Gill with catfish chucking the signature lucky charm can’t match that star power on the ice. The Predators are 24th overall with a 10-13-0 record.
Nashville currently is sixth in the Central Division, nine points out of the last playoff spot. Injuries to defenseman Ryan Ellis and goalie Juuse Saros don’t help either.
After winning four of five to show signs of improvement, the Predators have lost two straight. Yet Nashville is just 1-8 against the top three teams in the Central Division after a 5-4 loss to Florida on Thursday night.
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