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Nashville Predators: Top 5 Worst Trades and Offseason Moves

By Rich Howe

SAN JOSE, CA - MAY 1: Shea Weber #6 of the Nashville Predators looks on during the game against the San Jose Sharks in Game Two of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2016 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at SAP Center on May 1, 2016 in San Jose, California. (Photo by Rocky W. Widner/NHL/Getty Images)
SAN JOSE, CA - MAY 1: Shea Weber #6 of the Nashville Predators looks on during the game against the San Jose Sharks in Game Two of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2016 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at SAP Center on May 1, 2016 in San Jose, California. (Photo by Rocky W. Widner/NHL/Getty Images) /
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Mikael Granlund – Kevin Fiala Trade

Mikael Granlund was traded to the Predators from the Minnesota Wild in exchange for Kevin Fiala before the trade deadline in 2019. Thus begins another tale of a player who did well for their former team and then couldn’t find their footing with the Predators.

Granlund had had a good season in Minnesota but had dropped off from previous seasons. Similarly, Fiala had a pretty good season going but wasn’t playing to his potential as he had in the past for Nashville.

After the trade, Fiala went on to have his best season to date this year with the Wild, while Granlund continued to struggle and to find past success.

Granlund is another case of a player not meshing well within the Predators organization. The Predators were looking for the immediate impact that never came. Was this because Granlund was on the decline, or was it the coaching staff not motivating Granlund properly? We may never know.

Granlund struggled under Peter Laviolette, came into his own a bit under Head Coach John Hynes, but was non-existent in the Stanley Cup Qualifier round.

Granlund is a free agent now and will want more money from the Predators, which is something that they won’t have much of due to the flat salary cap.

Had the Predators tried to move him during the trade deadline this season, they may have solved some of the issues they are having to deal with now.

Now it appears that he will be leaving Nashville. The Predators lost out on obtaining an asset for him at the trade deadline and they lost Kevin Fiala.

That’s two strikes against the Predators in this trade that should’ve never happened.

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