All Entries Tagged With: "David Poile"
Housley Named Assistant Coach; Horachek Fired As Predators Shuffle Staff
Coming off a miserable season, the Nashville Predators have shuffled their coaching staff, terminating Assistant Head Coach Peter Horachek and naming Phil Housley as Assistant Coach. Here is the press release from the Predators: Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that Phil Housley has been named assistant coach of the [...]
Predators Sign Scott Hannan
The Nashville Predators have signed defenseman Scott Hannan to a one year contract. Here is the press release from the team: Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that the club has signed defenseman Scott Hannan to a one-year, $1 million contract. Hannan, 33 (1/23/79), has amassed 197 points (33g-164a) and [...]
A Conversation With David Poile
I had the opportunity to join several of the outstanding bloggers that cover the Predators for a round table with Predators General Manager David Poile for a wide ranging discussion of various topics that covered the gamut from player development and negotiations on contracts to the impending expiration of the collective bargaining agreement. Poile answered [...]
All In or All Over?
At the trade deadline, Nashville Predators GM David Poile pronounced to the hockey world that the Predators were “all in” in their pursuit of the Stanley Cup. Trading draft picks for trade deadline acquisitions and the successful completion of tortuous negotiations to bring Alexander Radulov back to the NHL were taken as proof that Poile [...]
Predators Part Ways With Radulov
The relationship between The Nashville Predators and their prodigal prodigy Alexander Radulov ended not with a Cup but with a crash as the Predators GM David Poile stated today that the team would be parting ways with Radulov. According to Poile, the team would attempt to trade his rights to another NHL team if he [...]
Predators Suspend Radulov and A. Kostitsyn for Game 3 Against Coyotes
The Nashville Predators have announced today that forwards Alexander Radulov and Andrei Kositisyn will not play in the third games of the the Predators second round series against the Phoenix Coyotes for a violation of team rules. Here is the press release from the Predators, Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced [...]
Predators Poile Nominated for GM of the Year
Building a winning team is as much an art as a science. Blending experienced veterans, untested rookies, and players added via trade or free agency is akin to a chemistry experiment in a science lab, Although the individual components are known, once blended together the outcome can be surprisingly good or it can blow up. [...]
A Rad-ical Turn of Events for the Predators
The Predators prodigal son, Alexander Radulov, returned from his KHL hiatus to join the Predators for their final regular season games and the playoffs. Radulov arrived in Nashville last night and went through a physical and practiced with the team this morning. Head Coach Barry Trotz said that he would believe that Radulov was going [...]
Five Deals That SHOULD Be Made Before The Deadline
As the late February NHL trading deadline approaches rumors have began to surface in every corner of the hockey world. From buyers to sellers and rentals, a plethora of deals always seem to be made this time of year. This year, as a few top-tier players are slated to become Unrestricted free agents at year’s [...]
Actions, Not Words with Suter
Going into the All-Star break, the biggest question for Predator fans might have been whether their captain, Shea Weber, could topple Zdeno Chara in the hardest shot competition (he didn’t). That was all before Ryan Suter stepped up to the podium and spoke. Firstly, let’s get Suter’s quotes out there again, as he made them [...]
Tryin’ for Ryan, Can the Predators Sign Suter?
Ryan Suter made headlines at a media event at the NHL All Star game by saying that he did not believe that he would sign with the Predators before the February 27th trade deadline. That sound you just heard was Predators GM David Poile cracking open a bottle of Maalox. Suter creates a problem for [...]
What To Do With Ryan Suter?
Last time, I examined the reasons why I thought Nashville and New Jersey should get together on a trade sending Zach Parise to Nashville- without Ryan Suter going the other way. This week has seen a flurry of discussion on what to do with Suter (and to a lesser degree, Weber). Primarily, the focus is [...]
Match.com- Nashville and New Jersey
New Jersey and Nashville are two teams that are both coming to a similar crossroads. Both teams have a core player that will be unrestricted at the end of this season and neither has re-signed their player due to different reasons. Can these two teams solve one another’s problems? I think so. But it might [...]
Predators Sign Pekka Rinne to 7 Year $49 Million Deal
The Nashville Predators announced today that they had signed goaltender Pekka Rinne to a 7 year, $49 million dollar contract extension. Here is the press release from the Predators: Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that the club has signed goaltender Pekka Rinne to a seven-year, $49 million contract – [...]
Like it or Not, Fighting is Essential to Hockey
This summer has been, most certainly, horrific for the hockey family. It seems that we are exposed to another hockey related tragedy on a daily basis. While the deaths of hockey pugilists Derek Boogard, Rick Rypien and Wade Belak are incredibly sorrowful, the fact that they were enforcers is not a reason to call for [...]
Final Thoughts on Weber, Suter and Rinne
Last time, I entered into the world of speculation as it concerned the negotiations with Shea Weber based upon what we’d heard to that point (prior to the arbitration hearing and the subsequent conference call with David Poile and Weber). I basically came to the conclusion that the primary blame for the stalemate should fall [...]
Weber, Predators Emerge from Arbitration; and Who Determines Weber’s Future
The Nashville Predators and All Star defenseman Shea Weber emerged from their arbitration hearing with the Predators captain receiving a one year, $7.5 million dollar contract. Not only is Weber now the highest paid Predator player (he should be), but he is also the recipient of the largest arbitration award in the history of the NHL. [...]
Changing of the Guard?
Copyright 2011 Jas Faulkner The Nashville Predators are trying to have a full changing of the guard in their team’s on-ice leadership. Step one was completed when Jason Arnott was traded away last off-season and Weber was given the vacant “C” (and Dumont’s “A” being given to Ryan Suter). Step two was completed this [...]
Predators Part Ways, Stand Pat in Free Agency
The first day of the NHL free agency period has been described as a “frenzy”. In looking at some of the deals that were consummated today, a more apt description might be “foolishness”. In the foolishness, uh, frenzy, of the first day of free agency, the Nashville Predators did……wait for it….. nothing. And that is [...]
Predators Vulnerable in Qualifying Offer Dispute
There is confusion and consternation that has arisen because of a possible defect in the qualifying offers that the Nashville Predators extended to restricted free agents Sergei Kostitsyn, Matt Halischuk, Nick Spaling, Cal O’Reilly, along with minor league players Linus Klasen, Chris Mueller, and Andreas Thuresson. In question is if the qualifying offers were tendered by the [...]
