NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Nashville Predators insist they understand it’s time to stop talking about producing on the ice and just get it done.
Since reaching the 2017 Stanley Cup Final, the Predators have talked a lot about how good they were only to have diminishing playoff returns.
Now they are coming off their earliest end to a season since missing the 2014 playoffs at the end of coach Barry Trotz’s tenure. General manager David Poile ran out of patience in January, firing Peter Laviolette and hiring John Hynes as Nashville’s third head coach.
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With the NHL stopping play in March, the Predators had a final chance at the postseason only to lose their best-of-five qualifying series to Arizona in four games. The Predators said after losing that they liked how they played despite the result.