CLOSING Thoughts | Predators, Barry Trotz & Andrew Brunette Share Final Thoughts On 2025-26 Season

The book is officially shut on the Nashville Predators 2025-26 season as players and staff shared their thoughts on what this year was and what could lie ahead. "You're Locked On Predators! Your Daily Podcast on the Nashville Predators! Part of the Locked On Podcast Network! Your team! Every day!" What's up everyone, I'm Jack Williams. On Monday, the Nashville Predators shared their final thoughts on a chaotic season, starting as the worst team in the NHL and finishing three points outside of a playoff spot. While some fans want this team to have a complete tear down in the offseason, moving in with a new general manager, the Predators had an opposite view moving forward. That being this team still wants to get to the playoffs, this team still wants to work with this current core that they have. Whether or not that message is coming from the current management that's in place or from the team itself, the shared sentiment that we heard as the media is this team wants to move forward with the group that they have and they feel like they are close to. Now, I understand this is a little dated, this did happen on Monday. However, I wanted to give you guys an episode to where I was getting out as much information as I can could pick out the best pieces of information we heard from the segment I wasn't just talking to you guys in an hour straight from what we heard from media availability. I also wasn't feeling too great yesterday. So I wanted to give you all 110% energy on this episode, not acting fatigued or fatigued or anything like that. Excuse me. You tell I was telling a little bit of that left over here, but I wanted to break it down for you. Get some really good segments, get some really good commentary going and just really talk about this with y'all and not be exhausted and kind of falling through the episode like it would have been the day that it happened. But this is coming out a little bit later, but we'll have some more in depth conversation with it is just as well and completely. But the big thing that we took away from this and just media generals, this team is still very much involved in the current core. It wants to be involved the current core and a lot of these guys still want us to stay, feel this out and see where the team is going to go. No matter who's saying it at the end of the day, players and coaches, we wholeheartedly agreed on it. And I know there's going to be all conversation of, well, this is coming from Barry Trots, who's on the way out. And of course, he's going to say this stuff. And Andrew Brune, of course, going to say this stuff because he's heading out because he everyone wants him fired. He needs to be fired. He has an awful year. We'll hear that stuff continuously. But we heard this from players all down the line from, you know, star players to young guys, to guys that you be thinking they might be a little bit out the door wanting to go to different teams to guys that are have their feet planted in Nashville. They heard it from everybody that this team wants to move forward with what they have right now. And that whether they're young or old, they want to be a part of this. They feel like they're close. That was something we heard up and down just about from everyone of that. This group felt like they were close. They felt like they were right there. Chop it whatever way you want it to up, whether it be it be coming from Barry Trots or be the mentality or a propaganda, whatever you want to say. This is something that we heard from every single player that spoke on Monday. So whatever you want to mix it up as I'm just saying, this is what everybody said. This is something consistently that we heard from everybody on this team. And that's and we'll break it down a little bit more. It was said in different ways. You know, there were some words and phrases you could pick up on that would mean one thing more than another. Some of them were completely direct. But I mean, overall, what we heard was a shared sentiment that this group still wants to get it done next year is extremely disappointed with the way things had ended. And so this year, and it's still committed to this completely didn't really get, you know, some of the passing mentalities that we have felt from some of these guys throughout the entire season, i.e. towards the end when we talk about Steven Stamco, Johnathan Marsh. So two guys who have hinted at times that they may not want to be here. They may be looking towards something else. They're fully committed to what was happening in Nashville at the time, but saying how their game hasn't been great and how, you know, they might have been promised something and coming to Nashville and it hadn't panned out there, heard a kind of different mentality from those two. And that's why we've saved it for the end here. But Roman Yosey, one of the first guys to speak captain, of course, and we shouldn't be here. We should be in the playoffs. That was the big thing saying like this moment is kind of hard to take in because obviously, you know, it's it's good to look back at the effort that we put in to get here. But the end of the day, this shouldn't be happening right now. We shouldn't be having to wrap up our season right now at the end of April and the middle of April and not wanting to be there really and just wanting playoff hockey consistently. They want to come back. He said he wants to come back and do everything they can to make the playoffs. The effort is there to come back. See what went wrong this season. Get off to a better start. That was the other thing that we heard from top to bottom from this group is that they need to get off to a better start completely. Barry tries to talk a little bit about how it was mentally hard to come back from this as well. The Bennett commended the effort, but it says it has to change and he says it's going to change next year. And we'll talk more about Andrew Brinett in the second segment here. But from Roman Yosi, he says he wants to come back and help this team do what it can to get to the playoffs. And a lot of time taking the summer to reflect on what happened this year and reflect on how he can become a better player. A lot of these guys talked about reflections. Mark's just even went as far as talking about what about himself in the mirror and we'll talk about that later on. But just reflecting on how they can offer more to this team and what they can do better and how what can they do to make sure this team gets that extra boost to get into the post season here. Roman Yosi did talk a little bit about his health as well, which is an important topic. It's been a big topic this year with a pot stagnosis in the off season still being able to come back just in time and not skipping a beat when it comes to training camp and being right there on day one, suffering was from some injuries a little bit more in the season here. And adding that element, keeping the element of his game where he has this offensive flare to his game. He's able to score consistently. He's able to defend so well and just he has a depth and flux to his game that you know, you might see becoming off a little bit more older guys like this. And he talked a lot about that and just, you know, with his health in the off season and injuries and all that kind of stuff, he did make a lot of changes when it came to just treating himself better and it impacted him better on the ice as well. He added in that guard to his game a little bit more. And he said, you know, all of this stuff helped him stay healthier and keep his game consistent in general and really changed a lot of his own life, not just on the ice, but off the ice as well. Another guy that talked a lot that had some good points to make to his Ryan O'Reilly. Again, this is a guy that's had a, you know, interesting mentality throughout the year and that he has taken a lot of the burden this year, whether it was on him that night or whether it was not on him that night talking about individual games here. Last night's when the predators were loose, he was taking all the blame and all the burden here so enough, so much so that he made national headlines. I believe back in November and then walked back his own comments, taking the burden for that, calling himself childish and that too. But a guy that has, you know, really stepped up as a leader this year. Really, I mean, he's been a leader consistently, and it says time has been here, too, but knowing a younger course coming in just, you know, really investing into that a lot more and very trotts even talked about a little bit as well. It's just guys like O'Reilly and Forrest Burr took a really big role this year in making these young guys comfortable and not isolating them from the rest of the group. And, you know, with isolation and younger guys, it doesn't come through and just they're coming to the team and they're instantly putting them in the corner and instantly putting them in another locker room or wherever you want to call it. They, you know, it happens naturally and just they're such a click with these older guys throughout their time with the team. And these younger guys come in and they could get a little bit quieter, they could be feel a little distant, but Ryan O'Reilly and Phil Forrest Burr made a very cohesive effort to show that they're part of this team, like even going out to lunch with these guys. You know, I don't know if any of y'all have been to practice or stayed a little bit longer of a Ryan O'Reilly is kind of playing, you know, teacher out there and all these young guys are out there doing drills after practice and Ryan O'Reilly is running that a little bit more. That's why he's been the last one off the ice in most practices. He's played a massive leadership role this year and very trust commanded that and just how much that helps in getting these rookies acclimated, these younger guys acclimated in and just having good starts to the year. We can look up and down the list and just talk about the impact that Matthew would had. You know, Adam Willesby, you know, not amazing, but you have to take into consideration that this was his work season. But you had young guys coming up to you, a Brady Martin plan to begin the year, Ozzy Wiseblatt. Kind of a regular on this roster to read Schaefer, I mean, Zach LaRue came up a little bit more to towards the end of the year as well. Got to see Cole Herrera at the end of the year. I mean, you got to feel for these guys and a lot of them had an opportunity to lead their impact, especially Matthew. Had a massive, massive year this year. And I don't know how many people expected him to put up the point to what was that he did. But Ryan O'Reilly basically talked about this team took a big step forward at plan on getting back into the playoffs and just getting better in the off season. And this is where the wording becomes interesting with this. He said, as of right now, I want to be here as of right now, I want to be here as of right now. The goal is to get this team to the playoffs or get to the playoffs using as of right now. And adding the right pieces to the mix and hoping he wants to be with this group of making things happen because you kind of revisit that comment and hearing as of right now. And you're like, as of right now, that's a little bit more open ended. But it was kind of hammered a little bit down there and just if you want to think of it as an analogy, it was kind of a nail that was loose. A question followed up. I don't know who asked it. But that hammered in just his mentality. He says he wants to stay in national and he wants to see how things shake out moving forward here. And once again, echo that sentiment that Barry Trot said of He said for verbatim from Ryan O'Reilly's mouth. We're not too far. We're close under that same umbrella This group does feel like we're close and you're gonna hear it Roman. Yo, she said this as well That how they feel like they're a close group right now. You're gonna see it later on their other place that said this too but again going to that comment of As of right now and then going into wanting to stay here and wanting to see how things shake out It kind of ensures a little bit more that Ryan O'Reilly wants to be here Obviously you want to leave things open that especially when you have your contract coming up that might be that is expiring next season and Seeing how a new general manager is going to handle that and how early an offer is going to be made one of those conversations going to start Obviously not gonna start now with Barry trots But overall a shared mentality that he wants to be here still he wants to be a part of this group this goal and y'all I cannot say this enough of just how critical this man is to this team's effort to want to Just be successful and want this team to grow and bleeding the youth and leaving the future and he is so massive as I mentioned With just the groups and just working with these younger guys He was the most consistent player this entire season with just he was good from start to finish She offered so much for start to finish and again. We've seen things of when it was going around that he'd be traded or him going to another team That oh he would be a great third fourth line center really strong third line This guy was anchoring the first line throughout the entire year through the thick and thin This was a guy that's really stayed with it and just saying this is my opinion to just my opinion having him exiled or traded or whatever you want to call it in the offseason or whatever would be Detrimental to this group. I'm not just talking about the veterans here now It'd be detrimental to the young guys here too and just he's a lot of this glue for this team whether you like it or not Whether you want to see him go on or not whether or not it's about cap hits and whatnot He is very Important to what the predators do here and then finally some comments from trots And you can read these how they are. I mean Basically, he's kind of recapping the season a little bit more Deitaco a little bit about a lot a bit about next year and just he is gonna be coming as on as an advising role So he'll still be here in some capacity. Obviously not the capacity as general manager But talk about this group some really tight they played hard till the end and they just need a better start to the year completely I mean that's been the issue these past two seasons and even if we want to go into the more finer details of this That's been the issue with all these games they cannot play first period to start for the life of them So Barry trots did a dress a comment that was made by Frank Siravelli back in November and I know in the local media It was kind of everyone was kind of like this doesn't make any sense especially But we've been seeing in practice and hearing from players and stuff like that didn't make sense Frank Sirvelli said there was a toxic environment and Seeming that really stuck with Barry trots because he's addressed this comment multiple times and he made that Comedy and he dressed it again saying there was a media member that made a comment saying that there's in toxic environments Like this is a toxic environment. I want to see him more of this because this is group this group is as close as I ever But expected he's expecting a lot of players to return next year and prove in all different areas On the big thing that really stuck up to me. He said the veterans players are culture and core younger players need to be taking on a bigger load this year So just you got the work he sees in out of the way you got the young part of their season out of the way this year For a lot of guys now the next step is to Adjust into being regulars on this roster being the role players that they are and just find ways to continue supplementing these veterans and no longer look like these work He's just a little like regular guys and league possibly you know all stars stars in the league here But just you know shake off the rookie part of your game you have that season under your belt now time to step up into a bigger role And he also said if we get into the playoffs, we're gonna be in there for a while I'll mention that the season was one of complex just talking about the start now bad it was versus November through the rest of it how they were able to turn things around into a playoff position I see the bricks of the foundation are being laid and It's kind of wrap is up here as a collectively a lot of the players were right there said that they were right here This would just leave him leading out the comments at saying that in his exit interviews um They said the same exact thing of just They're they feel like they are right here and we heard that from the players and just consistency That's what I'm saying that's what we heard consistently across the board and just they said they are right there They feel like they're close um and that's why they're so disappointed in being here now As they felt like they were close but Some good stuff just on this topic uh up and down the line. I mean I understand and from what I've seen he's been seeing on twitter and what so not of just Well, they're just playing for mediocrity and uh They should be throwing all the sound and blah blah blah blah or I think this on one comment They're like this is what this is a correction. This is what a This is what management saying the current management and not with the players. This is what we heard from the players directly Some of them did address saying well, this is what we heard from but the majority of all of them said this and express a mentality Do you want to be here and We'll hammer it a little bit more away in the final segment because it's two guys that I don't know if you would expect them to make those sort of comments like that judging by the way their seasons had gone And what they were brought to be here as um kind of we're along those same lines of hey we want to work towards it So I mean at the end of the day this group whether you like it or not they said it to us this group wants to work towards it This group wants to be in the playoffs next year They don't think they're going to be burning everything down nothing like that So don't expect that honestly. That's what we got from the players that is from the players and Barry trots uh and jabranette talked about a little bit to about speaking of andra brinette We're going to talk about his future coming up and that was a comment That was the topic that was addressed here and the brave reporters that were able to ask those questions And wanted to ask those questions about Andra brinette and what's going on with the new general manager coming in because Barry trot has been a big andra brinette guy We will talk more about andra brinette's future and the comments that were made towards that They'll be coming up right after the break Ed is way more common than most guys think millions of guys deal with it at some point And that's exactly why hymns offers a straightforward way to handle it hymns connects you with a license healthcare providers online giving you access to legitimate Ed treatment options from the comfort of your home no awkward appointments No pharmacy lines just a straightforward process that makes it easier to take care of yourself The whole process is simple you can just complete a quick online intake and they provider reviews your information If treatment is right for you it ships directly to your door in discrete packaging Which makes the whole experience feel private and stress-free They also offer options like cedna file a generic a Generic for viagra at a fraction of the cost plus other treatments so you can find what works best for you It's straightforward transparent and designed to make getting care feel easy To get simple online access to personalize affordable care for ed hair loss weight loss and more visit hymns.com/locton nhl That's hymns.com/locton nhl for your free online visit hymns.com/locton nhl Prescription required see website for details and important safety information Cedna feel is a generic version of viagra viagra is a registered trademark of the Vistress specifically LLC specialty LLC hymns is not affiliated with or endorsed by vitrus The mba playoffs are here where every possession matters every matchup is magnified and every game can swing a series And right now fandals giving new customers a great way to get in on the action Here's what I like about it. 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He said this group Another friend office, him and his associate, GMs never felt like they were making a wrong decision because the group was coming together and make it cohesive, well thought out decision. So he never thought throughout his entire time this year that this group, the front office did not make a wrong decision. Leave with that what you will. And then Brunette, when asked about kind of what the stance was this year with the team, he said, we're not a perfect group, but we're as tight of a group as we can be. The one thing that he said that you can hang your hat on last year, especially after last season, he didn't really want to talk about last season, but is that they never gave up. And that continued into this year of the mentality of just staying with it and the results eventually came. Hey, who's to say last season 24, 25, if it was a, you know, like baseball where they play 100 and something games, if it was like that, maybe the Predators would have won the final month of the year, maybe it just took a specific amount of games for the Predators to get there. Who knows. But one of the analogies that he had used throughout the entire press are here and that we had seen on the back end of all the Predators stuff into the locker room is there's orbs, there's boats, there's all this nautical stuff everywhere. And you know, I was talking to Nikisar about it. I'm like, why is this all this stuff around? And it's a part of the teams mentality and a lot of word motivation and whatever you want to call it, that Brunell used this year of just boats and paddling and paddling in the same direction and getting on the boat and making sure we're now again through choppy wires. And we're, if we're getting thrown off, pulling them back on and just staying with it. That was the whole mentality and the win the week mentality that came in from Barry Trots in November after the global series. And the shared belief that this team feels like they're not far off. And they're, and from what Andrew Brunell got and told us was they're excited about moving forward. And the older guys feel excited in the same way as well. Now going into what you guys have been waiting for the detail about his career and his time in Nashville, he was asked about the security of his job with a new general manager coming. And as we've mentioned to, and I think I don't know if this was insinuated or not, but Barry Trots has been a big cheerleader of Andrew Brunell. He brought him on. This was a guy that was with the predators as a player and gave him a lot of chances. New he was a young guy. There was all the talk of after that bad season last year that he was going to get fired then. And then there was the break after the global series. And he was going to get fired then. He stayed with Brunell this entire time. Well, now Barry Trots is on the way out and you have a new, new head, new eyes coming into this team looking at it being like, all right. Show me and show me that you can win because I don't have this history. I don't have this emotional attachment with you that Barry Trots might have. And Andrew Brunell said, I've approached you the same way I've always approached it. I'm the coach here today. I'm proud of the work, the work, the work that we are doing. And I'm going to keep coaching until someone tells me not to basically just saying, I'm going to work hard at it. I'm going to continue doing what I've been doing, finding ways to improve myself until someone says, Hey, you can't do this anymore. He said he's proud of the group and is working hard, but those are not his decisions. And he knows, and this might be a little refreshing to hear and just knowing that Andrew Brunell is aware that he's not indestructible or anything like that. He knows that he is, you know, this job isn't not fully secure. If this team starts losing, he knows that, you know, he can be yanked out the door anytime. And he says, he's like, I'm aware I was like, I'm just going to keep working hard and keep doing what I do. Until someone tells me not to, and he knows that decision is now all out of his hands. He said his decisions are that he can be the best that he can be and just working towards that. And I know that's corny and all that. But I mean, he keeps it real. I mean, he's saying, I'm just going to keep working hard and doing what I'm doing. And until someone tells me to stop, he said he's still learning to coach. I mean, he's a very young coach. This is just this third season as a head coach here. And he got a lot of help from Barry trots last year. Barry trots was at practices helping out as well and ushering Andrew Brunette in here. Again, Barry trots is a massive cheerleader for Andrew Brunette here. You don't see other GMs getting on the ice and helping out during practices or guiding the team like this at all for a first year head coach. I mean, it is, I wouldn't say it's abnormal, but something you really don't see a lot. And he said he was thankful that Barry trots was there to help him. And he's always believed that he can get better even as a player. This is a final comment he made here that might, I don't know if he ends up getting fired. This might be a comment that you could revisit a little bit more. He said this in preference in relation to his career. And he said working hard when he was in his late 30s or early 40s, even though that you know the end is coming, you can still get better. Take of that what you will. And that he's going to keep working hard no matter what the situation was in order to improve. And then Barry trots hammered down on just how well the coaching staff did this year of just keeping the team together, how close they were in operating out of a bad place. And getting the team out of a really bad situation mentioned a little bit about the schedule here and how well the team and the coaching staff handled how compressed the schedule was this year. Naring done even to sleep schedules and stuff and just making sure this team was on and saying sharp. And you know, players they complain about the schedule and how with the compression do the Olympics and then the year before with the four nations face off that they didn't have a lot of practice time. They didn't have a lot of downtime. There wasn't really a lot of reset time. Barry trots commended this group saying they did a good job of handling this as well. Completely said to you that the beginning of the year needs to change as we've mentioned before this team started off bad. This is coming from Barry trots. But he believed in the coaching staff the whole time and knew the team was going to get out of it as the coaching staff had the faith in the players and vice versa. And there's the shared belief with the squad and they finally got out of it. And he said again, this is another comedy makes and he makes a few interesting comments in here. He's very strategic about the way he talks and saying you can make brass decisions or well thought out decisions. And that goes under the same common category of never felt like this management group made a wrong decision this year. He's confident with what the decisions he made this year. He's confident with what was or wasn't said everything that had happened this year. He's confident standing he's standing on business here completely on the way out. And this is another conversation you can make brass decisions or well thought out ones. And then finally just revisited the whole winning the week mentality. And that was the discussion that was made around mid November after the global series time whenever everyone thought Antropon that was going to be fired. Barry trots talked of the team and said win the week. And that's exactly what they intended to do and it's up to perception how well they did that. But kind of summarizing this part of it a little bit more. Barry trot seems very confident that Andrew Brunette doesn't seem like he's going anywhere. Andrew Brunette seems very confident that he's going to be here and he's focused towards next season working towards next season. Obviously Barry trot's on the way out so his comments about Andrew Brunette staying only goes so far as for Brunette. I don't really seem like he's nervous and he's confident with the group. It seems like the players like he's here that he's here. But that's the biggest thing you can take away from it is that everyone seems very confident steady. And I think the big thing you can take away from this is Brunette knows he's not untouchable and he understands that. I'm going to coach and continue doing what I'm doing until someone tells me to stop. So I mean, this man's going to keep working at it until someone yanks him out and that's the big thing to take away from it as well. But in our last segment, I want to talk about two guys that had in my opinion, we're the loudest in the room and had really interesting things to say about this group and about themselves than the team. That is Steven Stamco, Jonathan Marshal. So we will chat about what they had to say coming up right after the break. If you got a sweet tooth like I do, you know how tough it is to find that perfect treat without all the sugar. That's why cotton candy five hour energy shop brings that nostalgic flavor back in a whole new way. This is a cotton candy taste that you will remember what with a tasty caffeine boost and zero sugar. 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If you guys are interested, go to locked on predators dot supercars dot com or check the link of the show notes to learn more. So we're getting really close to the half hour point. We're like right there, but you know, want to very quickly talk about stamp coast and marches. So what they really had to say and we'll talk about stamp coast first year and just I think towards the end of the season here, it was interesting to hear this shift up and what he had to say because in the second, the last game of the season here, he was really And saying we failed again. I was essentially promised playoffs when I signed here. We haven't had it yet and just really echoing a mentality of disappointment and kind of saying. I don't know if I'm I'm going to be here. I don't know if I really want to be there didn't say that directly but kind of hinted at it a little bit more, but you know, everything's so strategic in these now and just what things are said the way things are said down to the word. You can pick things apart completely and they can be what you're exactly thinking they can be another thing players could also just be saying it this way to create an illusion of how they feel and what's not. Steven Stamcos did have a lot of good things to say and just you know kind of turn things around said he's excited for next year he wants to work towards it with this team and just being like hey do want to be here and he's like yeah I do I want to work towards it with this group. I want to be a part of just the opportunity to just turn things around the biggest thing that he said that I kind of took away was that he was asked about the new management mentality and what that's going to be coming in and kind of shut down the whole conversation about a full rebuild and just burning it all down he said it doesn't seem like there's going to be a full rebuild with this management team or whatever's coming in what's on that even if a new manager new GM comes in it seems like we're going to be on the same mentality more and just wanting to work towards it as well kind of shut that down and he did mention to it's completely fine for us to be upset to be p.o.d as well because we missed the playoff and we shouldn't be here but again you also use that same phrase he feels like they're close and was asked about his time he's one to Stanley cups with Tampa Bay he's going to be able to do that. He's got a multiple playoff runs been to the Stanley Cup final I believe four times yeah on his time to Tampa Bay and was asked about houses compared is this feel closer to that and he said yeah I'm elaborated about it's like yeah this is seeing that does feel close to it. I think the young guys coming up working towards it and again just kind of switched up the mentality a little bit more of a guy that we heard after the San Jose lost being like we failed I came here for playoffs that's not happening to I want to work with this group I want to stay here and continue to do this and the vision still stays the same with this management group coming in and staying positive about that so that was the biggest things that took away from Steven stand because I really go to media availability so did Jonathan Marchis so who as we're going to do this. Who as we know had a really bad year this year and just couldn't get it clicking really at all this entire season you know he's coming off of a year in Nashville where he was decent and then the year before Vegas where he led the golden nights in. He led the golden nights have a leave and points that year and the year prior he had won the consmife and I mean just a substantial fall off and he was open about that he was straightforward about that and did not hold back and said I was in a bad mindset this year I'm usually a pretty positive guy and I could not get it going and that affected my game on the ice it was hard for me to get going and stay positive about my game nothing was really going right for me and mentioned that I want to be contribute. I want to be contributor to this team and helping this team get to the playoffs before and also saying to of kind of even talking about whether or not he didn't talk about this at all but again the whole idea of alluding and what people say of just if I continue playing like this i'm not helping any team get to the playoffs and he mentioned to he does has a have experience doing this I mean he got to the stand like a final in his first year with the golden nights. The first year with the golden nights the first year as a team in 2018 won the Stanley Cup in 2023 this is a guy that does have a lot of extensive playoff experience but I mean rough year for mars or so and he understands that he needs to do something he mentioned a lot about taking a look at himself in the mirror and the offseason reflecting a lot in the offseason and figure out what he can do the turn things around in his own game and just talk about how he needs to be better and really open up about the mental side of his well to very trots about very trots like this. He did tell me and he still a player that can offer a lot mentioned the kind of analogy of there are some players that can shoot the puck about net and it doesn't look like it's going in at all and it goes in. He said Jonathan Marshal is a guy that shoots the puck in the net and it always looks like it's going to go in and believes this is a guy that can offer a lot more still towards this team and Jonathan Marshal so once again a guy that you know we heard was asked about you know his teammates moving and his situation during free agency. He basically said I'm happy I have a no move class not so much saying that hey I'm happy to be here but more so hey I have control of whether I want to be here or not said he did have conversations about his contract with very trots but kept that private but mentioned saying I'm happy I have this no move class kind of a looting to the fact that he's happy he has security is happy that he can make the decision whether he leaves or not and that kind of similar Steven Samco's kind of showcased a little bit more of a mentality of a field that hey they're not going to be a little bit more. So that hey they might be looking around they might be gone in the off season so we're here now of I need to be better for my team I want to be better for my team I've got to better for my team and myself or I'm not going to be helping in any way period I want to contribute to this winning effort and if I continue playing like this it's not going to happen but that's what we heard from Jonathan Marshal so just another good. So we're going to wrap up to the year and yeah I mean there was many more guys that spoke we can talk more about these in later episodes because again there's nothing going on anymore so we got a long gate this as much as we can and if you guys want to hear about what Brady Shay said I can whip that up and we could go through that as well look at Evangelista talk to know how much everyone loves look at Evangelista Matthew Wood we go down the line Phillip Forsberg and you see Saros talked more about Barry trots too you know also mentioned in his kind of final thoughts here before wrap up. The episode Barry trots talked about just how important this team is to mention he has a tattoo of the Predators logo somewhere on his leg I don't know where he wouldn't show it does and he said there's only one person that can really see that but mention that you know this team is a part of him and he wants to see this team win just as bad as the fans do and he said it's going to be a massive party when the team gets the opportunity to raise a Stanley Cup down Broadway so I mean just some really good. Just some really good stuff from this team looks like they're still having a positive outlook and it goes into kind of a foggy off season of just not knowing to the general manager is going to be when they're going to be hired I mean New Jersey had a very quick turnaround to hire their new GM and the Predators have been sitting on this news since February it is April now so I'm we'll see what happens that's for sure but that wrap up this episode kind of recapping end of the year availability and locker room clean out we will not see the national Predators any sort of Predators action. Till probably late June in the draft starting up and a rookie camp starting up to but we'll probably have some news here and they're hopefully the higher GM by then but yeah that's going to do for me from today we're going to generate all different story ideas for the rest of April into the summer and we're going to be in for it for the long haul we're going to go hard and we're going to have all different things set up for the summer and locked on Predators and making sure that we're all getting through the off season together. It's going to be a quieter April and May but hopefully things will kick up in June a little bit more but again that will do for me from today at Jack G Williams on Twitter slash X Jack Williams the hockey news national Predators I've got interested interested in locked on Predators hello underscore Predators on Twitter slash X Facebook and Instagram we are just locked on Predators never miss an episode with our ever dare club that is at free audio members only discord access 15 $5 a month excuse me $50 a year it's most it's built for most loyal fans grateful for your guys thankful for you guys definitely not done with this at all we're still going to be working through locked on Predators episodes and trying to figure out what to talk about next having some guests on and getting through the spring here got Stanley Cup playoff sign I have it on my phone right now as I'm I don't know if you see my eyes starting down a little bit I have the kings and Colorado which should are in the Predators they have a lunch but we won't get into that but thankful for your great for your own at a wonderful season here and yeah let's gear up for the off season altogether and tune in for another episode tomorrow of a locked on Predators podcast