Roman Josi #59 of the Nashville Predators pressures Warren Foegele #13 of the Carolina Hurricanes (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images)
Who would’ve thought that the Nashville Predators would be able to go toe-to-toe with the Carolina Hurricanes by becoming a reliable penalty killing team?
If you realistically predicted the Predators to pull off this upset over Carolina in the series, then maybe you did see this coming, but I can’t see I was one of them.
As the regular season progressed, the Nashville Predators gradually improved on their penalty kill, but it wasn’t necessarily enough to get them from still being one of the worst in the NHL at 29th overall.