Category: Fantasy-Hockey
Pekka Rinne: 2008-9 Forechecker’s Forecast
by Forechecker on 09/04/08 at 12:51 PM ET
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Today’s projection should be an easy one. Coming into training camp Pekka Rinne has 3 career games of NHL service, so normally one might wonder if there’s much history to leverage in terms of predicting future performance. But with the Predators, we have a very clear guideline to follow. Each of the last two seasons have seen Nashville’s backup goaltender steal the spotlight with a performance among the very best in the NHL. After all, Chris Mason’s 2006-7 season was, by some measures, tops in the league that year, and Dan Ellis led all goaltenders in both regular season and playoff save percentage in 2007-8.
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Jed Ortmeyer: 2008-9 Forechecker’s Forecast
by Forechecker on 09/03/08 at 12:40 PM ET
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Happy 30th Birthday wishes go out to Jed Ortmeyer, and in his honor, today’s Forechecker’s Forecast is devoted to the one-time University of Michigan Wolverine.
Jed signed a two-year deal with Nashville last summer, and the expectation has been that he’d provide basic checking and penalty killing work. He began the 2007-8 season playing the left wing alongside Radek Bonk in the middle and Jerred Smithson on the right side, on what was supposed to be a shutdown line. As it worked out, however, the only thing that got shut down was the Predators offense when those three hit the ice.
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Josh Gratton: 2008-9 Forechecker’s Forecast
by Forechecker on 09/02/08 at 02:30 AM ET
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Amidst the Radulov drama and the
Marek Zidlicky trade, one roster move that’s been somewhat overlooked involves the enforcer role, fulfilled the last three seasons in Nashville by fan favorite Darcy Hordichuk. The heir apparent to that job is Josh Gratton, a dedicated knuckle-duster who played all of 1 NHL game last year, and 52 the year before for Phoenix. I’m guessing that this is a fan-created site and nothing that Gratton himself has created (although “Chin of Steel” is certainly a moniker worth promoting).
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Patric Hornqvist: 2008-9 Forechecker’s Forecast
by Forechecker on 08/29/08 at 02:23 AM ET
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This series of Forechecker’s Forecasts heads into truly uncharted waters today as we consider the prospects for Patric Hornqvist, the Swedish winger who appears to be the organization’s next-best option for goal-scoring depth after the departure of Alexander Radulov. Since he’s labored over in the Swedish Elite League for the last few years, North American fans have precious little evidence to evaluate; the single most-noteworthy fact known about him is that he tied Peter Forsberg’s record for goal-scoring by a junior player (with 23) for Djurgarden in 2006-7. He has also represented Sweden well during the World Championships both in 2007 and 2008, and his 6 goals this year led the team.
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J. P. Dumont: 2008-9 Forechecker’s Forecast
by Forechecker on 08/29/08 at 01:47 AM ET
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When the Buffalo Sabres walked away from an arbitration award in the summer of 2006, making J.P. Dumont an unrestricted free agent, many approved of David Poile’s subsequent signing of him as a savvy addition that would bring secondary scoring behind the likes of Paul Kariya and Steve Sullivan, who then led a deep Nashville attack. Two years on, Dumont is now wearing the “A”, leading the charge up front along with Jason Arnott, and entering the first year of a new four-season contract paying him $4 million annually. Each of his two seasons with the Predators have seen progress in offensive production, so the main question with #71 is, has he reached his peak?
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Vern Fiddler: 2008-9 Forechecker’s Forecast
by Forechecker on 08/27/08 at 01:30 AM ET
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Have we ever seen a more fortuitously named athlete for his adopted city than Vern Fiddler of the Nashville Predators? Perhaps Terry Crisp when he coached in Calgary (Flames, Crispy, you get it), but not too many others come to mind.
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Kevin Klein: 2008-9 Forechecker’s Forecast
by Forechecker on 08/23/08 at 01:20 AM ET
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After previewing some grizzled
veterans in the first two installments of these Forechecker’s Forecasts, it’s time to take a look at a hockey player with only a handful of NHL games on his resume, Kevin Klein. After years of preparation as a hot defensive prospect, Klein is set to join the Nashville lineup full-time this fall, based on his new two-year contract that will pay him an average of $650,000 per season.
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Radek Bonk: 2008-9 Forechecker’s Forecast
by Forechecker on 08/20/08 at 01:11 AM ET
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Today’s installment of the Forechecker’s Forecast brings us to Radek Bonk, the veteran center who was acquired last summer to be “
a big, experienced center that can play the shut-down defensive role and also fill in in more offensive situations,” as GM David Poile said at the time. Since Bonk did a solid job in that role with the Montreal Canadiens for the first two years following the Great Lockout, there was reason for optimism that 1994’s #3 overall draft pick would be the perfect fit to round out a center position that already boasted Jason Arnott, David Legwand, and Scott Nichol.
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Jason Arnott: 2008-9 Forechecker’s Forecast
by Forechecker on 08/18/08 at 03:58 PM ET
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In order to tide us all over until training camp opens next month, I thought I’d take a cue from Lowetide and some others by taking an early peek ahead to the 2008-9 season for individual members of the Nashville Predators. Hey, it’s the middle of August, and there’s nothing else to write about, right?
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