2019-20 Predators Player Report Cards: Colton Sissons

Photo by Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images Nashville Predators General Manager David Poile surprised a few people around the league by locking Colton Sissons into a seven-year, $20 million contract right before the start of the 2019-20 season. That kind of term is usually reserved for franchise cornerstones, not bottom-six forwards. Sissons earning that deal was a prominent statement on how the Preds value his contributions, and how they see his role with the team evolving down the line.

In that context, Sissons’s ‘19-’20 season is a hard year to grade. He didn’t take that big step forward in his development like fans had hoped (you could argue it wasn’t entirely his fault), but he still excelled in…