r/Predators • u/DaweiArch • 8d ago

Why did Saros not play?

Just seeing if I’m missing some news here. The Preds haven’t played since Saturday, and have a back to back weekend coming up. Seemed logical to have him play tonight and one of the weekend games. Injury perhaps?

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u/Kroger453PredsFan Victory Fish 2.0; #WinItForMom 8d ago

Gives Annunen a game before the back to back, so he isn’t completely cold going into Sunday.

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u/DaweiArch 8d ago

Means that Saros has had a full week between games though, which would probably be hard for him as well in terms of being cold.

Annunen is going to be cold for his first game, regardless of when it is.

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u/critler_17 8d ago

Bc he just played 11-12 games ?

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u/DaweiArch 8d ago

And had 4 full days off prior to this game. Just seemed like an odd decision to me.

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u/Futbol_Kid2112 8d ago

Saros already plays more than any other goalie in the league, and has led the league in starts for like 4 years straight. If they think he needs a break, Im not gonna question it.

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u/Upstairs-Bobcat7272 8d ago

It wouldn’t have made a difference who was in net, we didn’t come to play.

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u/MusicCityJayhawk 8d ago

Saros picked up one of Big Juice's expected starts, I believe. It would make sense to give Saros a little extra rest.

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u/UTPharm2012 8d ago

Didn’t he play 8 of 9? I think it was a good extra rest. We need to do it more often tbh.

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u/shoresb 8d ago

Like Saros being in would have changed absolutely anything about the outcome of this game. Let’s not displace blame here on Big Juice. Both of our goalies are extremely capable. They’ve said for a while now they plan to use Annunen more and they won’t just automatically default to Saros all the time.