Nashville Predators Twitter - as always - has a wide variety of thoughts about the first day of free agency, but one recurring opinion keeps popping up: other teams are making big signings - why not Nashville?
The sarcastic side of me wants to simply point at the last few offseasons and say, “and how did that work out?” However, there are a few points to make in defense of Nashville’s relative (in)action - despite making seven signings yesterday:
Signings by team:
VAN - 15
BOS - 9
PHI - 8
CAR - 7
CBJ - 7
NSH - 7
TOR - 7
MIN - 6
MTL - 6
SJS - 6
TBL - 6
VGK - 6
BUF - 5
CGY - 5
DAL - 5
LAK - 5
PIT - 5
ARZ - 4
DET - 4
EDM - 4
FLA - 4
NJD - 4
NYR - 4
WSH - 4
SEA - 3
ANA - 2
CHI - 2
OTT - 2
WPG - 2
COL - 1
NYI - 0
STL - 0— CapFriendly Depth Charts (@CF_DepthCharts) July 29, 2021Goaltender and apparent Saros backup David Rittich was a necessity - the organization is flush with goaltenders in their development pipeline, but there’s a distinct lack of a veteran presence.