2018-19 Nashville Predators Position Preview: Defense Part II

So far this preseason, the Nashville Predators have had what I would call a welcome and uneventful few weeks. [knocks on wood] Of course, the most recent culling of the ranks did not include Zac Rinaldo, as I’d hoped it would, and the Predators seem content with the NHL’s punishment of Austin Watson, as I’d dreaded they would. Otherwise, the roster seems healthy and strong, and one man, Carl Filip Anton Forsberg, seems to be on a mission to put the puck in the net at an alarming rate.

But this article isn’t about any of that. This article is about the boys that come in and put some extra jam on the ice. They aren’t Norris candidates, their jerseys don’t sell out, and from what I can tell…