Across all situations since , the Predators are in the bottom half of the NHL when looking at their share of high-danger chances at 5-on-5 Contenders play better hockey than that. The problem for the Nashville Predators is that they either failed to find those underlying problems, or did not think they were a big deal. Neither offense is excusable. The Predators are now a team scrambling for a band-aid fix for a wound that needs stitches.
The best course of action may actually be riding out the season with him and tanking for a better draft pick. Responsibility also falls on the players, as every time the Predators give up a tough goal or have a bad call against them, they look visibly defeated.
It looks as if they think the game is already lost, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The Nashville Predators are a broken team, and have been for longer than many would like to admit. The special teams issues are nothing new, both old and new coaches have failed to find answers, and all the current problems have long plagued the team before growing into the unsolvable issues they are.
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The league thought it could push a regional sport on areas with no hockey tradition—at the same time it reduced fighting, which tended to be its gateway to new fans.
So teams in Atlanta, Miami, Tampa and Phoenix have languished for years. Add in a wretched economy, and you have the recipe for a multi-million dollar fiasco.
Some of this is simply due to bad management or substandard arenas. Central is a case in which the exposure isn't exactly flattering. Follow after the jump for a walk down memory lane, and a look at CNBC's trailer for the program When "Boots" first appeared on the Nashville scene in the summer of , it was as a prospective majority owner of the team , presumably to relocate the Predators to Kansas City, where he had an agreement with to operate an NHL franchise in their new arena which still hasn't landed an NBA or NHL tenant to this day.
Instead, he eventually joined the local group led by David Freeman as a large minority investor , providing sorely-needed capital to help fend off the advances of Jim Balsillie, who showed both before and after that he'll go to almost any lengths to move a team to Hamilton, Ontario. Less than a year after he came on board, however, things started to fall apart for Del Biaggio. In May , word came that was being sued for obtaining a loan by posting collateral which wasn't actually his , and failing to make scheduled payments.
While speculation swirled about what impact the unfolding scandal might have on the team, I took my stab at the time :. Now, what might this mean to the Preds ownership group?
Imagining a worst-case scenario that sees Del Biaggio financially wiped out, a buyer would have to found for his 32 percent stake in the team, and given the circumstances, that buyer or buyers might be able to leverage a discount. Now, is it possible that Del Biaggio's mess could result in some sort of default relative to that financing arrangement?
For instance, it is hard to see Hynes being picked up by another franchise with Gerard Gallant , Claude Julien and Bruce Boudreau on the market, to name a few. A foreseeable problem Nashville will encounter is that there are now fewer means to help instigate a rebuild since the entire hockey market is penny-pinching; Commissioner Gary Bettman recently announced that the cap could remain flat over the next four years.
In other words, the Predators are on the verge of being very bad, and because of the market and the Predators onerous contracts , it could take longer for them to improve. An unfortunate backlash of all of this is that a bad team in a non-traditional market normally results in a considerable loss of revenue.
With Hynes gone, there would be nobody else left to blame if the team continues to struggle. Consecutive mid-season coaching dismissals would surely implicate the GM as part of the problem.
Consequently, if John Hynes goes, David Poile is the next man between the crosshairs, and the attention on him would garner plenty of important questions. Was Poile, in fact, hoodwinked into taking Hynes by his good friend, Ray Shero? Hynes had just signed a multi-year deal with the New Jersey Devils in the off-season prior to his firing. Seems like a no-brainer, from his position, to shower praise over the coach he fired.
Their combined goals this season? Five in 44 games. It is clear that Poile has built enough respect in Nashville to afford him, and John Hynes, some time, assuming he wants to carry on. Tearing it down seems like the only option but those men will be overseeing the changes.
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