Nashville Predators Quarterly Stock Report: Who’s Rising, Who’s Falling?

Juuse Saros: Holding Steady

I’d be a little cautious about unloading too much on Juuse Saros stock right now, and it’s really not due to his individual play. The team’s defensive effort, or lack thereof, against high quality teams has been alarming this season despite the promising win-loss record.

Saros has been the victim of poor giveaways from his teammates that have left him in difficult save situation, which unfortunately he has surrendered a lot of those types of goals.

However, the Predators have also had a grueling schedule through the first quarter of the season as they’ve now faced every 2021 playoff team from the current Western Conference, but have only gone 2-4-0 in those games. They’re also 3-7-0 overall against all 2021 playoff teams.

The schedule will lighten up against more mediocre and offensively challenged teams, and Saros should be able to get back to his normal stat line and start posting better numbers.

Cautiously buy some low Saros stock and hope he can find another hot streak similar to what he did down the stretch last season.