Nashville Predators: Signing Ryan Johansen Is Mandatory

The Nashville Predators signed Arvidsson, Watson and other players within the last week. Things are looking good, but there’s at least one piece to go.

The 2017-18 season marks the twentieth anniversary of the Nashville Predators’ existence. For most of those years, one key component has been missing. It’s something that makes pretenders into contenders, good teams into great teams, and brief periods of success into dynasties.

An elite first-line center.

That may read as a knock against some of the men that have served that role for Nashville in the past, and I would never mean to denigrate the likes of Mike Fisher & David Legwand. The fact of the matter is that as good as Fisher & Legwand…