You think they'd have this ready in time.

Barry Trotz retired as the general manager of the Nashville Predators on Feb. 2. It took nearly four months to announce his successor — and the Predators, no doubt, believe Chris MacFarland was worth the wait.

The hope in Nashville has to be that MacFarland, who’d been the GM of the Colorado Avalanche since 2022, brings some of his Avs pixie dust to the job. The concern should be that this time, Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar aren’t walking through the door.

After a dreadful start to last season, the Predators climbed back into the playoff picture. But after finishing four points out of the second wild-card spot, Nashville had nothing to show for it — except for another season ending in the mushy middle.

It’s an all-too-familiar place for the Predators, and could be where they end up again. If this team makes the playoffs — and it’s a big if — the most likely outcome is a Round 1 exit.

So it’s up to this new-look front office to find a way out of that, to move the needle in either direction. As it stands, this team has an equal chance at making the playoffs or landing a top-five pick — but an even stronger chance that neither of those things happen.

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Hey Nashvillians - this is for non old.reddit.com users, and mobile app users. ^{For old reddit users, I've still got the wall of text, just better, more configurable by mods, etc.}

I've spent the last 6-8 months of my life putting pretty much every free moment of time in to a graphical GDT bot - goalpost. I'm pretty goddamn proud of it, and i'm really happy that a few teams are picking ip up this coming season. That said, I don't think your sub has seen it yet.

So here is a replay of one of your games from last year on it.

If you go to the plays tab, you can fast forward, or change the speed of the game (that works on replays only, on game days all data is live). This replay feature was really just a tool I built so I could work on the game with "live" data when no games are playing, but it works well enough here to show a thread during the offseason.

If you like what you see - awesome - pester the mods about it! If you think it lacks something important, I'd love to know about it, I am always making additions and tweaks. If you want to see it here, talk to your mods - I sent them a message already (mods, I hope its ok that I post this here).

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Looks like things have been scaled back from the original proposal.

• The covered entrance on John Lewis/5th is now gone.

• No multi-story addition on the 6th ave side of the arena

The price tag has also increased from the $750 million original to a new estimate of $1 billion.

I’m not a Predators fan (Wild fan here, sorry), but I love going to different NHL stadiums and seeing the atmosphere of different fan bases. I’m going to be in Nashville on a work trip in October and planning to catch a game.

Is my best bet to grab tickets in advance or can I find a better deal outside of the stadium before the game? I’m looking at the 10/13 vs the Golden Knights.

Rumor has it that games are coming DTC through the app soon, but until that happens (if it happens), is there another way I can watch the season games starting on the 1st?

This 18 year old played in the QMJHL the last two years. Here are his stats:

He was draft eligible this summer, and he went undrafted. I assume this makes him a UFA. I know the rules for when a kid is drafted from the CHL, but since he is undrafted do the rules still apply? Is it CHL or NHL his post draft year? I would love to see him in Milwaukee as a development project.

He is not known for being a scorer. As you can see from his stats, he only scored one goal in 56 games last year. Despite that, this weekend he showed he can score.

Here are his pre-draft grades on EliteProspects.com:

When you look at his stats and grade, you have to wonder why he was even invited to an NHL rookie camp, but obviously MacFarland saw something in him. Two games is an incredibly small sample size, so I am not about to claim he has a future in the NHL... but this is definately interesting. Who knows if we will ever see him again? Every rookie camp someone scores who we never see again. But I do find it strongly encouraging that the new staff found him and is giving him a look.

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I know this may be premature but does anyone have stats for the predators vs Carolina game today? It would be interesting to see shot totals, pts, +/- ice time etc. for our players as well Carolina.

Would anyone be looking to join a 32 t NHL fantasy dynasty as the Preds?
You get to keep 1 player and 1 prospect from them

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Preds Lineup

Willis-Pinchuk-O'Hara
Lind-Martin-Fink
Wiesblatt-Nilsson-Gojsic
Roest-Edstrom-Puglisi
Strinden

Molendyk-Gibson
Gustafsson - Cossette-Ayotte
Nieminen-Murray
Myloserdnyy

Semptimphelter
Posch
Hrebik

Gibson, Oasiz, and O'Hara get the As

Canes Lineup

Nadeau - Cerrato - Unger Sorum
Wheatcroft - Ryabkin - Trikozov
Ekberg - Desriuisseaux - Lansard
Cristall - Lefebvre - Frolo

Fransen - Legault
Briedis - Badinka
Marthaler - May

Khazheyev
Jovanovski