![]() ![]() I also decided to stay away from other current players outside of Rinne and Weber. There’s a few guys I could’ve slotted into this last spot (Fisher, Erat, Timonen, to name a few), but ultimately I figured the first Predators draft pick who spent 14 years with the organization (and played 956 games here) deserved the nod. Shockingly, “Original Predator” David Legwand was the last one to make the cut for me. Putting a consistently competitive product on the ice has always been the primary objective for Poile, and that’s why the franchise has seen the success it has over the past six or seven years. Successful expansion in the NHL isn’t an easy feat (ahem.Thrashers), but Poile’s steady hand has guided this franchise from a lowly expansion team to a perennial playoff threat. I debated putting Barry Trotz over Poile, but Poile has been here since the beginning and, for better or worse, his fingerprints are all over the franchise. Rinne will go down as the most beloved Predator of all time, and Weber, at the height of his powers, was probably the best player to ever don a Predators sweater (although Josi will certainly take a run at this over the next couple of years). Rinne and Weber were absolute no-brainers to me, as they were the cornerstones of the franchise for so long. Tucker’s Mount Rushmore: Pekka Rinne, Shea Weber, David Legwand, David Poile The other picks, however, were all over the board, from all different eras of Predators hockey. One pick was consensus (I’m going to assume you already know which one). We asked some of our OTF contributors to give us the four people they’d put on the Predators’ Mount Rushmore. So we did what any good group of hockey-starved hockey writers would do.we’re taking our debate public. There are so many people that COULD be considered one of Nashville’s four most impactful in team history. But one could argue that makes this debate all the more fascinating. The Predators don’t have the lost list of Hall of Fame players in their alumni rolodex that other teams around the league have. On one hand, that can be chalked up to having a team that’s only been in the league 21 years. That question has come up multiple times in our little On The Forecheck community, and each time it does, the answers seem to change. who would you put on your Predators Mount Rushmore? The OTF staff can’t seem to agree on the four most impactful people in team history (well. ![]()
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