This makes sense due to the fact that former longtime Predators coach Barry Trotz is now the bench boss for the Caps. The teams are also connected due the trade the sent Filip Forsberg to the Music City.
Both teams surpassed expectations in the and made the playoffs. Both are small market clubs that stockpile young players and draft smartly. Is there someone I missed? Chicago Blackhawks. Colorado Avalanche. Columbus Blue Jackets. Dallas Stars. Detroit Red Wings. Minnesota Wild. Philadelphia Flyers. Louis Blues. Washington Capitals. Winnipeg Jets. You can follow him on Twitter , DanMountSports.
Has written about college, major junior and professional hockey for the last five years. Chicago Blackhawks The one team that popped up the most was the Chicago Blackhawks. These two franchises were never on the same wavelength. Additionally, on the ice, the Blackhawks and Predators clearly lack a hatred for one another.
The only hate seems to be between Predators fans and Blackhawks fans. And sure, maybe people are annoyed by their fans, but a every franchise has annoying fans, the Predators included, and b the last that I checked, fans neither put pucks in the net nor cheapshot the guys on the ice.
Run the tapes back: you have a Game 7 and two six-game series in the last decade. Every series between the teams featured extreme physicality. Every game felt extremely close.
These were two evenly-matched teams every single time they played each other, that absolutely hated one another. No other rival of the Predators comes close to what the Ducks became over the past decade. After the Ducks, the next best rival of the Predators is the Winnipeg Jets.
They had a seven-game series and, over the past few years, the teams have had more than just a couple scraps out on the ice. Looking at the players, the Predators clearly dislike the Jets, and that feeling is reciprocated by Winnipeg.
Therefore, the Anaheim Ducks and the Winnipeg Jets are the clear-cut rivals for the Nashville Predators, due to how evenly the teams play when competing against one another and because of the mutual hatred between the players. This is going to be a personal answer, but to me, the Predators-Red Wings rivalry is always going to hold a special place in my heart.
My parents are native Michiganders who grew up going to games at Olympia. It just so happened that the age I really started understanding sports being able to know the key players, how good the rest of the league was, etc. I remember bragging rights being on the line every game in my family. I can remember Cell Block turning Chris Chelios into a pariah, and all the chants that went with that.
For almost 15 years, it always felt like Detroit was the standard to which the Predators needed to achieve. That being said, I still circle their matchups on my calendar.
When I think of rivalry relative to the Predators, I have two responses—one purely personal and emotional and one more professional and logical. This Pennsylvania native has a genetically predisposed animosity towards the Pittsburgh Penguins. The family reunion in Pennsylvania was perhaps the least fun one of late. Penguins fans hockey at miles an hour, and you are either in or you are out.
I had given the Dallas Stars very little thought up until recently, but two factors have moved this team up on my list of Nashville rivalries. Maybe it was overconfidence or maybe it was the solid statistical matchup against the Stars in the first round that led to a shocking early playoff exit. The abrupt season end at the hands of the Stars left many in Nashville loathing the green jerseys. After that disappointing series elimination, the Predators had a chance for national redemption at the Winter Classic on January 1, More FS Central News ».
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