Were there better offers during the trade deadline? Such thoughts should give Predators fans serious pause.Įither way, the Predators didn’t accelerate their rebuild during the trade deadline.

After all, they traded both for very meager returns during the offseason. In retrospect, they at least should have considered trading Ryan Ellis and/or Viktor Arvidsson around that time. Heading into the 2021 NHL Trade Deadline, many wondered if the Predators would trade Ekholm. Troubling lack of vision for Predators in recent monthsīreak down three phases of recent Predators’ decisions, and you’ll wonder whether the team should give David Poile the old Glen Sather “promotion” out of the GM position. They just have to make some difficult choices - and one of those might involve removing that borderline-lifetime GM. That said, the Predators can get their rebuild back on course. To some extent, the damage has already been done.

Unfortunately, the Predators join the Sharks as teams uncomfortably likely to experience a lot of pain both now, and later. There are other teams with older, borderline-lifetime GMs who remain stubborn to accepting short-term pain for long-term gains. A troubling thought was truly cemented with the Mattias Ekholm contract extension: the Nashville Predators are in rebuild denial.

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