Author Archive for David Singleton
Nashville Predators Blogger, Software Engineer (C#.NET), Novice Woodworker, Southern Cook, Husband, Father of Two. You may contact me at David.R.Singleton AT gmail.com.
Now Is The Time- Trotz Should Win Adams
Now is the time, this is the year. Barry Trotz should win the Jack Adams trophy. This is coming from someone who wrote a very critical article three weeks ago that questioned whether David Poile and Barry Trotz are doing as good a job as typically espoused by the media. Of course, that’s not enough [...]
Friday Face-Offs, 4/8/2011
After a week off working on my kids tree house (day one), it’s back to hockey… The Wild, Wild West Mostly just two games left for the teams out West. The Predators can technically finish anywhere from 4th to 9th in the standings. My best guess? Phoenix will not pass Nashville. They have the same [...]
Friday Face-Offs, 3/25/2011
This week we have a little follow-up to last week’s Face-Offs and I finally put my $0.02 in on Mike Murphy’s comments from the GM meetings as well as Matt Cooke’s suspension. Follow-up: Are David Poile and Barry Trotz Doing A Good Job? Last week’s column prompted a lot of discussion on partner site HFBoards.com. [...]
Friday Face-Offs, 3/18/2011
Strap yourself in folks, this is going to be a long one… Are David Poile and Barry Trotz Doing A Good Job? This is a dumb question right? I mean, countless experts across the NHL keep saying that they do a phenomenal job. Like to see a sample? How about Pierre Lebrun on 3/15: The [...]
Friday Face-Offs, 3/11/2011
Big win last night to start the five game home stand. Let’s get started… Nashville’s Playoff Expectations With Nashville’s win over the Wild last night, SportsClubStats.com gives them a 59% chance of making the playoffs. Do I expect them to make the playoffs? No. Can they? Yes. But they require lots of help. Right now, [...]
Friday Face-Offs, 3/4/2011
This week saw the trade deadline come and go with Nashville making no moves. It also saw Nashville rebound a little bit from their dismal performance the week prior. Onto a shorter Face-Offs today… Final Thoughts on the Trade Deadline Now that the dust has cleared, David Poile decided to move forward with the team [...]
Friday Face-Offs, 2/25/2011
Just another ho-hum week for Nashville Predators’ fans. Since last week’s Friday Face-Offs, Nashville has gone 0-3-0, lost Suter for a game, lost Goc for the year, and let slip that O’Reilly is also out for the year. And, to top it all off, Nashville sees themselves in 9th place in the Western Conference this [...]
Friday Face-Offs, 2/18/2011
So, Mike Fisher has two games under his belt. Nashville has played three of the four games in this current home stand. The trade deadline is now 11 days away. Examining Further Nashville Trade Rumors Last night was the second game of the scheduled three games in which Montreal plans to scout the Nashville Predators. [...]
Friday Face-Offs, 2/11/2011
The big news for Predators fans was yesterday’s trade that brought Mike Fisher from the Ottawa Senators to Nashville for their 2011 1st round draft pick and a conditional 2012 draft pick. Predators Import Mike Fisher from Ottawa My first reaction to the trade was that it was “horrible” (twice actually). Was I overreacting? To [...]
Friday Face-Offs, 2/4/2011
February is here, and I start the month by looking at Nashville’s needs as the season heads toward the trade deadline. The Nashville Predators and the 2011 Trade Deadline Potential Needs Nashville’s needs revolve greatly around the potential return dates for Francis Bouillon, Cal O’Reilly and perhaps Steve Sullivan. At this point, my assumption is [...]
Friday Face-Offs, 1/28/2011
Continuing the Great Debate- David Legwand Last week, I touched on David Legwand by addressing Robby’s analysis of Legwand via the plus/minus stat. I ended that piece by making the statement that ” Legwand is also showing that once again, if given offensively-skilled wingers, he’ll produce offensively”. In this space, I’d thought I’d show Legwand’s [...]
Friday Face-Offs, 1/21/2011
Today starts a new, regular column from me called Friday Face-Offs. As I can’t watch/attend every game, I don’t do many post game wraps or game previews (and Mark does such a wonderful job with those anyway for HockeyIndependent). Besides, it’s much more fun to open myself up for all sorts of ridicule from my [...]
A Series of Defining Moments
Barry Trotz often speaks of a game’s “defining moment”. Last night was a series of defining moments- one of which included the sold out crowd at Bridgestone Arena. The first defining moment of the night came after Chicago scored a power play goal at 14:59 of the first. To that point, the Predators had played [...]
Assessing the First Half
It’s certainly been an interesting season to this point, hasn’t it? Given the injury rate this season, I’m sure that I will develop carpal tunnel before this season is out and miss a few games myself. Minuses You have to start with all of the injuries. It began with Matthew Lombardi suffering a concussion in [...]
Should Nashville Pursue Iginla?
Does there exist an opportunity for Nashville to make a major splash via a trade and should they do it? There may actually exist two such opportunities. One might be Zach Parise in New Jersey, however I don’t believe that truly exists. I really don’t see a scenario where a player of Parise’s age, ability, [...]
Groundhog Day II- Nashville Predators Style
Last night, Nashville went into St. Louis hoping to stay in front of the Blues in the division. Today, they find themselves limping along (literally and figuratively) on a four game losing streak with their 2-0 loss to St. Louis. They also find themselves on the outside looking in for the playoffs. Linus Klasen, playing [...]
Nashville Drops 3rd Straight, Loses to Ottawa 2 – 1
After watching the Predators-Ottawa game tonight, I’ve come to several conclusions regarding the Predators right now. Sergei Kostitsyn is far-and-away the best forward on the ice for the Predators at this moment. He plays with great effort and “detail”. He sees the ice extremely well. He does a terrific job of bringing the puck up [...]
Catching Up
It’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog due to all sorts of things, so I wanted to try quickly touch base on several topics as the Predators head into the last game of this home stand against the Sharks. Predators On a Roll Since I last blogged, the Predators have gone on [...]
Bittersweet
Every journalist and blogger likely has many reasons for doing what we do. Many of us are likely influenced by others in the industry who have helped shape our own efforts. For me personally, there are two men that I feel have influenced me more than any others- Bob McKenzie and Jim Kelley. While technically [...]
Analyzing One Predators Power Play Vs Carolina
Saturday night, Pekka Rinne played another solid game allowing the Predators to squeeze out a tough 2-1 shootout win on the road against the Carolina Hurricanes. Without two of their best defensive players in Ryan Suter and David Legwand, the Predators were able to limit the Hurricanes to 22 shots on net for the night. [...]
