Earlier this week, Elliotte Friedman mentioned on his 31 Thoughts podcast that the much-coveted Matt Duchene would be interested in signing with the Nashville Predators:
[W]hen I look at Duchene, I think [Nashville and Montreal] are the two. He’s always wanted to play for Nashville, we all know that. [...] Until Nashville’s out of the picture, I always assume they’re very much in the picture when it comes to him.
(Transcript, and some quick cap analysis, courtesy of our former colleague Alex Daugherty.)
We have some thoughts coming up later this morning on how David Poile could make the math work for a big free agent signing (whether Duchene or, in theory, someone else), so stay tuned for those.