Category: 2019-20 Player Report Cards

2019-20 Predators Player Report Cards: Miikka Salomäki

By Kate R | Oct 2nd 2020 | 4 min read |

Miikka Salomäki has been a curious case for years. He’s showed promise on paper, but never really put it together on the ice. One of the first thin...

2019-20 Predators Player Report Cards: Kyle Turris

By Ann K | Sep 28th 2020 | 4 min read |

Season Overview Few if any Nashville Predators players could claim a more “2020” 2019-20 season than Kyle Turris. The Matt Duchene acquisition, Tu...

2019-20 Predators Player Report Cards: Colin Blackwell

By Bryan Bastin | Sep 27th 2020 | 7 min read |

My report card for 2018-19, where center Colin Blackwell had six games of NHL play and no goals were scored by the Nashville Predators while he was on...

2019-20 Predators Player Report Cards: Matt Irwin & Korbinian Holzer

By Shaun Smith | Sep 24th 2020 | 6 min read |

These two defenders will be forever linked in my mind as they were traded for each other in February. For some inexplicable reason, the Predators also...

2019-20 Predators Player Report Cards: Dan Hamhuis

By Ann K | Sep 23rd 2020 | 3 min read |

Season Overview Inconsistent team play, a mid-season coaching change, the struggling third defensive pairing merry-go-round, a late-season injury, and...

2019-20 Predators Player Report Cards: Yannick Weber

By Kate R | Sep 22nd 2020 | 6 min read |

In 2016, in a trade that rocked the hockey world, the Nashville Predators sent Shea Weber to the Montreal Canadiens for P.K. Subban. Two days after th...

2019-20 Predators Player Report Cards: Mikael Granlund

By Kate R | Sep 22nd 2020 | 9 min read |

At the trade deadline in 2019, the Nashville Predators sent young winger Kevin Fiala, whose performance was painfully inconsistent, to the Minnesota W...

2019-20 Predators Player Report Cards: Craig Smith

By Bryan Bastin | Sep 21st 2020 | 21 min read |

Since Craig Smith was drafted 98th overall in the 2009 NHL Draft, the longtime Nashville Predators forward has spent nine full seasons on the team and...

2019-20 Predators Player Report Cards: Yakov Trenin

By Ann K | Sep 18th 2020 | 4 min read |

Season Overview After a strong training camp, Yakov Trenin’s physical and fast style of play ended up on the radar of then-head coach Peter Laviolet...

2019-20 Predators Player Report Cards: Viktor Arvidsson

By Eamon Smith | Apr 6th 2020 | 5 min read |

Viktor Arvidsson had a rough year. In fact, calling it “rough” might be understating how poorly Nashville’s speedy Swede played; he was downrigh...