Fun Friday: The Barry Trotz Dream Team

The Nashville Predators are not a team that enjoys scoring goals.

After over 20 years of NHL hockey in the city, this is just an understood fact of Predators fandom. The team plays solid defense, has good goaltending, and wins games via depth and shutting down opponents; this is the model that David Poile and Barry Trotz constructed in the franchise’s infancy, and it still stands today. The team records for scoring are pathetically low compared to every other franchise, and yet Nashville is consistently a playoff participant and often a legitimate contender. Why is that?

It all goes back to Barry Trotz and his love of blocking shots and playing defense. What does any of this have to do with…