This is part 1 of my quarter-season review of the Nashville Predators in 2019-20. Twenty games is considered the usual watermark where statistics tend to be more representative of the team as a whole, and we will begin this series with the position that has seen highs and lows already: the goaltenders.
Coming into the 2019-20 NHL season, Nashville fans were waiting in anticipation to see how changes to the team—a summer removed from a disappointing first-round playoff exit—would change the product on the ice. Many have criticized General Manager David Poile's desire last summer to keep most of the team together, and this year, Poile made some changes.