Forsberg only put up 48 points, yes, but in an 82-game season, you will see him get closer to what you would expect from him at around 60 points.Īrvidsson failed to play 60 games for the second season in a row and posted an underwhelming 28 points in 57 games. I’ll start by saying Forsberg and Viktor Arvidsson are just fine. If you’re a Predators fan reading this, the story is pretty grim so far, so let me brighten your mood. Kyle Turris, Nashville Predators ( Jess Starr/The Hockey Writers) At a $6 million cap hit, you can’t have a replacement-level guy in your lineup. Turris posted a minus-0.2 wins above replacement number this year, and if you’re unfamiliar with the stat it essentially gives you a number above or below zero to assess a player’s value above or below a replacement-level player (replacement-level meaning any average NHL player at all can plug and play that spot – they’re just a guy). I say real quick because if you read my Philip Tomasino article, you will know that I believe he should have Turris’ spot in the lineup next year. While we are on the topic of overpayments, we can talk about Kyle Turris real quick. The verdict? The contract is a gross overpayment, but Duchene will likely put up a better season than his first in Nashville, although he could sure use some help. Consistency wouldn’t be the word to encapsulate Duchene’s career so far, but in regards to showing up to work, it certainly applies.
Duchene is a player who plays more than 70 games a year, doing so all but three times in his career (this year being one of them but was due to a shortened season). Last season was eighth among Duchene’s career point totals and ninth in terms of points-per-60, which is encouraging if you want to believe this year was the exception and not the rule. Duchene out-produced them at a points-per-60 rate but Benn however, is currently captaining his team to a Game 7 and is on the cusp of a Conference Final berth. The other three? Phil Kessel, Jeff Skinner, and Jamie Benn. Out of that 36-player sample size, Duchene out-produced only seven of them. There are 36 players in the NHL that carry a higher cap hit than Duchene and seven who carry the same cap hit. That’s about where the optimism ends on the Duchene front, though. Nashville fans can take solace in the fact that a 29-year-old scoring forward is much more likely to rebound than a 31-year-old goaltender. Unfortunately for Nashville, the man they paid to fix a major need failed to live up to expectations as well. Sergei Bobrovsky laid an egg for the Florida Panthers this year after earning his big ticket, failing to fill the much-needed hole in the crease for Florida.
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Nashville wasn’t the only team that whiffed on throwing that kind of money at a free agent this offseason. Matt Duchene, Nashville Predators ( Jess Starr/The Hockey Writers) I don’t think the Preds were thinking of “meh” when they locked up Duchene to an $8 million yearly cap hit last July, though. They were 17th out of 31 teams in both categories. This is not to say the Predators didn’t score goals or even stop goals from being scored on them.
It’s never a good thing when your fourth-leading scorer is in the 30-point range, unless you’re talking about goals only, but we’re talking about points here. In fact, Ryan Ellis, another defenceman, followed the previous trio up at 38 points. Not Filip Forsberg (48 points) and not Matt Duchene (42 points), but defenceman, Josi. Roman Josi led the team in scoring this year. Let’s look at what went wrong for the Predators and where their areas of focus should be for next season. If the world worked the way the bookies in Vegas say it does, all three of those teams would be still playing today in the second round, instead, none of them are.
Related: 10 Reasons Hockey Is the Greatest Sport on Earth Louis Blues, the last two teams to win it all. Ahead of them in sixth and seventh place, respectively, were the Washington Capitals and St. 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.
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