For anyone curious about why Eeli Tolvanen was scratched last night when the Nashville Predators took on the Minnesota Wild, John Hynes’s post-game comments went a long way toward explaining it. When asked, he was very upfront and candid about the situation:
Hynes started by explaining that they had a meeting with Tolvanen, but veered into discussing the team’s play over the last few weeks, saying, “Our team hadn’t been playing regularly the way we wanted to and we hadn’t really made any lineup changes. We stuck with a lot of guys. I believe in that—when players play the right way we try to keep them in and get them going.