Ryan Kennedy of The Hockey News: The Nashville Predators are struggling and it might be time for the Predators to go into a rebuild. They have some bad contracts that might be hard to move.
They definitely could use some offense help and though the top of the 2021 draft class is defense-heavy, there are some forwards. The 2022 draft class has three forwards at the top – Shane Wright, Matthew Savoie and Brad Lambert.
Finding trade partners for Ryan Johansen and Matt Duchene would be easy and it may require them to give up more assets or retain salary.