Predators fumble away 3-goal lead in Toronto

I realize that Bardo and Erat’s injuries left Wilson without a line, but what has he done?
I want the kid to be successful, but maybe a trip to Milwaukee and 17+ TOI a night will do more for him than 4th line minutes. Or even better would be to put Ward (outside of Bardo he has been the biggest disappoint for me this season) were he belongs on the 4th and let Wilson play with Legs and JP.

Go figure the night we get two assists from Legs and a shortie (can’t remember the last time we had one of those) we get beat.

PS Anybody else think we might be getting a Spaling sighting on Thursday.

This crap has been going on all year. Sorry pp, sorry pk, sorry goaltending, sorry coaching.

I am tired of having a young team. Unfortunately, as long as we don’t have any money, I think we will always have a young team.

I thought Klein had turned a corner, but I think I may have been premature in that assessment. He has been at the center of some pretty serious gaffes lately. It reminds me too much of his play last season.

I believe there were 2 plays that were pivotal to the demise of our Nashville Predators in Toronto last night.

The 1st was Giguere’s save on Steve Sullivan’s breakaway. I believe if Sullivan scores there, it is the death nail. By stopping that goal it showed that Giguere was still in it. I honestly believe it was what is known as a GAME CHANGER. Just a minute later Schenn scored off the momentum of that enormous save. Instead of going into the locker room down 4 to 0, the team got a boost by going in 3 to 1 having scored a late period goal. The ability of Giguere to make that big save is also something Nashville has been lacking this season. Sometimes you have to depend on your goalie, cause teams are going to get chances. It just seems like Pekka hasn’t been coming up with those kinds of saves this season.

The 2nd pivotal play was Kevin Klein’s delay of game penalty at the end of the 1st 5 on 3. At this point in the game we are up 4 to 1 and had managed to score a shortie. This could have easily been the death nail as well. However, our guys just killed a penalty and a brief 5 on 3. At this point, Klein finds the puck on his stick. If he slams that puck down the ice, instead of lazily dumping it over the glass, we only have to kill a 5 on 4 PP. Keep in mind we were still up 4 to 1 at this point. I believe we could have easily killed off that PP, cause going into the game Toronto’s PP was one of a few in the league that was even worse than ours. It was basically a domino effect after that and we all know what the end result was.

Regarding special teams: I can’t express enough how truly disappointed I am in the fact that we have not improved in either PP or PK whatsoever. One could argue that we have actually regressed in those departments. All we heard from the coaches going into the season was how that was a main focus. It is time to bring in a special teams coach from the outside. Someone who is a specialist and works exclusively on that part of the game.

We were once again our own worst enemy, because the Toronto Maple leafs didn’t out play us otherwise and are in fact incapable of doing so.

You can’t keep saying that we did it last year so that means we are going to be doing it this year come back from a bad start. We hope it works like that but this team is different than last year’s team. We are less three veterans from last year. That in itself says alot but not everything. But you won’t make the playoffs if our special teams aren’t fixed and in a hurry. This is the second year in a row that our pk has suffered and I can’t count how many years it has been for pp. Your not going to make the playoffs or go deep into the playoffs unless this is fixed. I’m sure Trotz and coaches are trying to do their best but that’s the point their solutions have played out. Why wasn’t there an asst. coach change because Trotz is loyal to his people. Well loyalty doesn’t get it done it the job isn’t working.

my blood pressure was getting way to high LOL.. whenever we get a lead early in the game i always get a sick stomach. i just feel like we are going to give the game away somehow. am i the only one who feels this way?. we have to get a better special teams coach. who would we get. something has to be done.