NASHVILLE, TN - JUNE 11: Mattias Ekholm
We’ve come down to the final three games of the regular season and the Nashville Predators have a chance to clinch the playoffs tonight with a win over the Columbus Blue Jackets, and a little help from the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Let’s go back just a few seasons ago to 2016-17 when that Nashville Predators team too had to take it down to the wire to get into the playoffs. It was a team that finished with 94 points in the regular season, while this year’s team is on an 82-game pace to finish with just shy of 93 points.