glenngineer
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Rocco, Arvy, Tootoo and Sullivan. The Preds Mt. Rushmore of players with more significantly more heart and tenacity than size.
I'd throw in Walker too.
Rocco, Arvy, Tootoo and Sullivan. The Preds Mt. Rushmore of players with more significantly more heart and tenacity than size.
I'll stick with my like 303 but that edit completely changed your original post.
I know this is incredibly selfish but I would easily take just one cup win for a decade of darkness. I don't care how many playoff games we have been in over a long period of history.
Just one cup.
Yes, sustained success probably helped grow the sport, but the cup run put us over the edge. Imagine what a cup win would do.
A cup win would buy a few years of grace but this is still a baby bandwagon sports town. A decade of darkness could put the franchise back in jeopardy.
Anyways, it doesn't have to be one or another. We can win the cup and still maintain a competitive team year in and year out.
that's any team really in the NHL outside of a few Canadian teams.Yup, just look at how Nissan Stadium was a 50/50 representation at best for a few years there. Went from being consistently sold out with one of the best home crowds in the league, to a favorite destination for visiting fans once the team stopped being competitive. If that can happen to the Titans it can easily happen to the Preds.
But i'd still take a rebuilding period in exchange for a Cup win.
Nashville is the IT city in the southeast.Nashville also benefits from being a draw for the opposition. This is something we didn’t have quite as strongly 10 years ago. So even if local interest drops down to what it was 10 years ago we will still be buffered on weekends, and potentially even thursdays, by opposing fans looking for a weekend getaway.
It's listed on the NHL website, so I guess that makes it official.Not official, but looking like a 2:00 start on Saturday
7:00 is better than 8:30
That's a great post but I think this is way too intricate of a conversation to have on a message board.I understand that there's a ton of nuance I'm neglecting or minimizing with that essay above- particularly in those players being forced to catch passes on their backhand, or turning their body to catch on the forehand. A team that cycles heavily would be at more of a disadvantage having to frequently catch on the backhand.
My sense of this team, though, is that cycling the puck is not their best strategy- particularly the top two lines. They are at their best on the rush, cutting across the middle, or driving the slot to receive a quick pass from a wing that drove down below the goal line. Quick hitting offense based upon speed, puck handling forwards, and frequent/quick shots (ie, a Laviolette offense) would seem much more adept with a R-shooting LW and a L-shooting RW 5-on-5. And the PP is being significantly hindered with inefficiencies.
That's a great post but I think this is way too intricate of a conversation to have on a message board.
I'm a little bored waiting for the game so I'll compare and contrast Forsberg and Arvidsson and try to put some things in perspective from my point of view. Let me add that conventional theory is/was that being on your strong side meant you always had your forehand facing the center of the ice to make and receive passes as well as taking a standard wrist shot. This is why the center position was a specialized player that could control the puck forehand and backhand.2 minutes for coaching snobbery!!