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I feel like you took my comments out of context. I'll explain myself. First off, I'm referring to their team this year, not their team last year. If I stated that Nashville has always used their cap like this, then you may have a valid point. (quite frankly I have no clue as I haven't look at anything previous to this season) Secondly, but in the same realm, I was looking at their team in a bubble with the context being where they are right now, not 5+ year from now. I never said or implied that in 5 years their cap would look great. The reason for my post, was NOT because I believe that Nashville is run perfectly and we suck, @Never_Retire_Steve said: "I really hope that management is looking what Nashville is doing and figures out how to build a solid core for many years. Amazing to me that the Predators have Johnasen, Arvidsson, Forsberg, Subban, and Ekholm for the terms they do for as cheap as they do. Amazing job by Poile IMO." My main point was to point out that this is untrue and that they DO NOT have all their players for cheap, I assumed that this poster was saying this due to their cap management, and my point was that the reason why it looked so good was because of the amount of players they have in the 600K to 1.5mil range (again right now), specifically Watson, Hartnell, Fiala, McLeod, Gaudreau, Aberg, Sissons, Salomaki, Weber, Irwin, Bitetto & Mazanek which is 12 of their roster players compared to us who have 6 roster players in that range. Now, if we are talking 5+ years from now, you're right, they likely will be a team that is looked at having bad contacts, all contracts look good when the player is outperforming their cap hit. Hindsight is of course always 20/20. Every team is always going to have an inevitable down turn, this is why I am not as hard on Holland for the state of our team as some, but most fans look only in the here and now which is why some people think Nashville is amazing, and Detroit is awful. Small picture thinking. Holland has made his share of mistakes, no denying that, but you cannot keep a team elite forever, literally not possible.

They do have great core, but where are you getting this from? Johansen just signed for 8mil x 8, Subban is signed for 9mil x 5, Forsberg 6Mil x 6, Arvidsson 4.25mil x 7, and Ekholm 3.75mil x 5. I dont think any of these are bad deals, but they are not "cheap" either". What Nashville does well, is it pays it's stars well, then pays the guys on their lower lines pretty much all at 1mil or under. That's what differs them from us, we are paying guys on our 3rd/4th lines anywhere from 600K to 4.25mil.

I agree. Make the playoffs and we have fun watching them at the LCA in round 1. Miss the playoffs we get another nice chance at a pick in strong 2018 draft.