Matt Duchene #95 of the Nashville Predators congratulates teammate Mikael Granlund (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images)
With the Nashville Predators on the brink of elimination heading into Friday’s Game 4, you can’t help but focus on who’s not showing up.
I’m fully aware that Wednesday’s crushing, and somewhat unlucky, Game 4 loss can’t solely be put on one or two players’ shoulders. It’s a team effort and a lot of factors are at play for why the Nashville Predators are now one game away from being eliminated.
If the Predators get eliminated from the Stanley Cup Qualifiers on Friday, it’ll mark the third-straight season of the team going in reverse.