For starters, the Nashville Predators were wildly inconsistent. You couldn’t trust them at all in one way or the other.
Even when a Stanley Cup champion is crowned during a normal 82-game season there are still often questions left unanswered. But those questions amplify even more when the results are incomplete or modified.
There were some nights when the Predators didn’t look worthy of even sniffing the playoffs, and then quickly they would flip that around and crush a top-tier team to look like Stanley Cup contenders.
How about in February when the Predators were sleepwalking and took an embarrassing 6-2 loss to Vancouver only to turn around and crush the Islanders 5-0 and then complete the season sweep of St.