Welcome to our new OTF staff!

Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY SportsWe have some new regular staff joining us at On the Forecheck, and I’m extremely excited to introduce them. We got a lot of fantastic applicants, including several it hurt not to have room for—I love that Nashville Predators hockey has so many talented people who love it and who want to spend their time writing about it.

We’ll be continuing our coverage of the Predators’ new additions this week as well, with further in-depth breakdowns on the prospects, the cap space, and whatever else happens, but for now, I’ll let the newcomers introduce themselves—in alphabetical order, since even if we did have a draft order (we don’t) it would be rude to share it:

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