How the Nashville Predators Stack Up in Heated Wildcard Race

The wildcard race is heating up in both conferences, and it’s fair to say that the Nashville Predators won’t get higher than that at season’s end.

Sure, the math is there for the Nashville Predators to go on an improbable hot streak and surge into a top-three spot in the Central Division. But let’s deal in realistic scenarios.

The Predators are probably a wildcard or bust type of team, which isn’t a death sentence as we all know from 2017. However, the race is crowed as usual, and a few other teams have solid chances at being one of the two wildcard teams as well.

Out of all the teams in the wildcard hunt, how do the Predators stack up? Are they one of the better teams out of this group, or…