Better All-Time Roster: Florida Panthers Or Nashville Predators

[DitchMarner]

In these polls, I'm including only players who spent at least two seasons with a franchise on their all-time rosters.

For relocated franchises, I am including worthy players who played for the franchises prior to relocation(s).

Consider how good a player was when he played for the franchise whose roster he's included on. For example: If Fedorov is part of Team Columbus, don't think of him as the 1994 version of the player.

Florida Panthers:

Jonathan Huberdeau - Aleksander Barkov - Pavel Bure
Ray Whitney - Olli Jokinen - Nathan Horton
David Booth - Rob Niedermayer - Scott Mellanby
Viktor Kozlov - Vincent Trocheck - Jaromir Jagr

Jay Bouwmeester - Aaron Ekblad
Brian Campbell - Robert Svehla
Bryan McCabe - MacKenzie Weeger

Roberto Luongo
John Vanbiesbrouck


Nashville Predators:

Paul Kariya - Jason Arnott - Alexander Radulov
Filip Forsberg - Ryan Johansen - J-P Dumont
Viktor Arvidsson - Mike Fisher - Patric Hornqvist
Steve Sullivan - David Legwand - Martin Erat

Roman Josi - PK Subban
Kimmo Timonen - Shea Weber
Ryan Suter - Ryan Ellis

Pekka Rinne
Tomas Vokoun


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[jonlin]

The defense wins it for me. Nashville has a lot better D. Florida has better forwards though, but cant resist Nashvilles D.

 

[Plante]

I like the Panthers offense more, but that defense is filthy.

 

[amnesiac]

tough, Florida has the better forwards and goalies. Nashville has the better Dmen

Ill go with Florida... Barkov, Hubdreau, Bure better than any NSH forward (Kariya not far)
Lu + Beezer are 2 HOF goalies right there.

NSH does really make it close with: Weber, Josi, Suter, TImonen, Subban, Hamhuis/Ellis

 

[Bouboumaster]

tough, Florida has the better forwards and goalies. Nashville has the better Dmen

I agree with that


I voted for Nashville, because that defensive squad is too much to handle for Florida I think

 

[Soundgarden]

tough, Florida has the better forwards and goalies. Nashville has the better Dmen

Ill go with Florida... Barkov, Hubdreau, Bure better than any NSH forward (Kariya not far)
Lu + Beezer are 2 HOF goalies right there.

NSH does really make it close with: Weber, Josi, Suter, TImonen, Subban, Hamhuis/Ellis

I think goalies are closer than you'd think. Obviously Lu is the best of the bunch, but Vanbiesbrouck only had 5 more wins and a worse GA and SV% than Rinne in 200 more games, although Beezer played in a more high scoring era.

Aside from one period of relief in which he gave up 4 goals, Vokoun never went above 2.95(and aside from his rookie season never went above 2.78) or below .903%, something neither Rinne or Beezer did.

 

[centipede2233]

This is Florida for the reasons stated. Florida’s first line with bure would torch any goalie or defence, period. Bure was putting up60 goals a year with 45 point kozlov as his center……the Nashville D is amazing but I’ve seen bure on highlight videos torch even lidstrom. The phrase speed kills applies here

 

[Love]

The Predators centres are so bad I can’t look past it

 

[Regal]

I think the biggest advantage is the top line for Florida. All three players are better than any of Nashville's forwards, and while Nashville has the better defense, I don't think the gap is very large with the way Weegar and Ekblad have played the past two years.

 

[Gurglesons]

Florida has Jagr on the 4th line so uh. Gonna take them lol

 

[Felidae]

Florida has Jagr on the 4th line so uh. Gonna take them lol

Yeah but everyone I assume was picked only during their time with the team.

 

[Panteras]

Op forgot the og Forsberg played with Nashville ; )

 

[Regal]

Op forgot the og Forsberg played with Nashville ; )

He doesn’t fit the 2 year criteria

 

[Evergreen]

Nashville because of its defense.

 

[biturbo19]

For a team with a relatively short history to draw from, Nashville's defence is shockingly good. It's right up there with teams that have been around for half a century longer. But that Center depth is also shockingly bad. Really the story of the Predator's franchise in a nutshell i guess.