Jacob Chychrun has been freed—from the bench and from the team—but the Arizona Coyotes are still collecting futures. The Nashville Predators head south to face them tonight.
Shayne Gostisbehere has also been traded, but otherwise not much has changed in Arizona since the last time these two teams met, with Clayton Keller, Nick Schmaltz, and Lawson Crouse contributing the bulk of the team’s scoring.
Luke Evangelista continues to impress for Nashville. In Monday night’s road game against the Vancouver Canucks he not only scored two goals and got the Preds’ only real chance on the power play, but he did so while putting up an 83% expected goal share at 5v5 (according to Natural Stat Trick).