Category: Nashville Predators Player Profiles

Rich Clune Season Preview: Lean and Mean, But What Kind of Machine?

By George Scoville | Mar 2nd 2019 | 11 min read |

Nashville Predators forward and team social media savant Rich Clune enters this season on the first year of a two-year contract that will pay him $1.7...

Carter Hutton Season Preview: Stop Gap

By Jeremy Sargent | Mar 2nd 2019 | 3 min read |

The term being thrown to the wolves was never more apparent than Carter Hutton and the goaltending situation last season. With netminder guru, Mitch K...

Mattias Ekholm Season Preview: Steady as he Goes

By Jonathan Garcia | Mar 2nd 2019 | 2 min read |

Before last year, Mattias Ekholm had only played three games across two NHL season. Even though he spent some time rotating in and out of the press bo...

Filip Forsberg Season Preview: "Put me in, Coach!"

By Jonathan Garcia | Mar 2nd 2019 | 4 min read |

Filip Forsberg’s time in Nashville last season was brief, and that’s something the Predators don’t want to repeat. After his season ...

Calle Jarnkrok Season Preview: Ironhooked

By Alex Daugherty | Mar 1st 2019 | 5 min read |

In a pre-draft interview in 2010, Calle Jarnkrok was asked to give a description of North American hockey as he had been exposed to it in Europe: R...

Eric Nystrom Season Preview: Fourth Line Livin'

By Jonathan Garcia | Mar 1st 2019 | 3 min read |

Eric Nystrom was tailor made for the Barry Trotz system. He’s the definition of a tough-as-nails, gritty player that battles for the puck and co...

Viktor Stalberg Season Preview: Drop the Clutch

By Jeremy Sargent | Mar 1st 2019 | 3 min read |

To drop the clutch means one of two things: You either peel out and take off leaving a plume of white smoke from the tires…or you stall out, lur...

Ryan Ellis Season Preview: The Waiting Game

By Anish Patel | Mar 1st 2019 | 5 min read |

Considering that Ryan Ellis may not even be with the Predators at the beginning of the season, there are a lot of things that need to be figured out h...

Victor Bartley Season Preview: In the Mix

By Jonathan Garcia | Feb 28th 2019 | 3 min read |

Let’s not kid ourselves, there isn’t a whole lot to preview about Victor Bartley. He spent last year as a rotating seventh defenseman, and...

James Neal Season Preview: Trigger Man

By Nick Rockwell | Feb 28th 2019 | 5 min read |

When the Predators aquired James Neal you could hear a collective gasp resonating through the hockey world. Nashville traded for a goal scorer. Neal s...