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Advantage Nashville?

04/13/2017 at 3:52pm EDT

from Joe Rexrode of The Tennessean,

Thankfully, the Game 1 countdown has been reduced to hours, and soon enough these teams will be off and skating, setting the tone for a compelling series. This has been building like a college football rivalry game. There’s been enough time to prepare for a football game as well.

Equal opportunity for both sides, of course, and they already know each other well. But that doesn’t mean an enterprising student of the game can’t use the available technology to find a helpful little nugget or two.

And perhaps this is where the Predators will have an edge. Though coaches and players use it, I think the “underdog” card usually is overrated in terms of intensity of play in situations like this – both of these teams are going to spill it from the start, no matter who’s favored and what has been said.

But I think preparation can be impacted by mindset. Has the Blackhawks’ confidence strayed at all into overconfidence? Have the Predators done more than the Blackhawks this week to find wrinkles and individual tendencies that aren’t dug up in a regular-season setting? If so, can that tilt things Nashville’s way a bit?

Peter Laviolette and his players certainly made use of the time.

“We’ve actually been able to take it up and break it into days,” he said of the video prep coordinated by video coach Lawrence Feloney. “Work on certain things, whether it’s power play or penalty kill or systems or personnel or lines that they have, and combinations and tendencies.

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