Nashville Predators: The 5 Biggest Surprises from the 2022-23 Season
By Kyle Fleming
#5 Missing the Playoffs
Looking at the additions that the Nashville Predators made during the offseason, this should come as a surprise to anyone that follows the organization. The Predators are set to miss the playoffs for the first time in eight seasons this year.
All Predators fans and a lot of analysts had the Predators as a shoe in for the playoffs after they went out and got Ryan McDonagh, Nino Niederreiter, and Kevin Lankinen.
Add those three players in addition to the roster that the Predators and myself included had the Predators making a deep run this spring.
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That was not the case as the Predators were only able to put together win streaks of three or more games on six times. With their longest win streak being a four-game stretch in early January.
On the other hand, the Predators had losing streaks of three or more games on four separate occasions including a five and six game losing streak where they only got three out of a possible 22 points over those two slumps.