This new third jersey will certainly have big sleeves to fill. In the five years the mustard jersey was in use, the Predators put up 38-19-12 record while donning the brightly-colored sweaters – including a blistering 21-3-2 mark in the last two seasons of its existence. The Predators original mustard Third Jersey – both revered and reviled by fans around the League for its eye-catching design – hasn’t been seen since the 2007-08 season, when the League converted to the RBK Edge jersey technology. This new color scheme is evident in the Pred-head logo, including colors such as Nashville steel, navy blue, silver, white, and a glowing eye, all changes from its predecessor. The sweater features a vintage-inspired lace-up front, a subtle checkerboard pattern lining the bottom of the jersey, and a bolder and more simplified color scheme. The alternate sweater holds a look that has its roots in an Original Six style, yet keeps a feeling that is distinctly Nashville. Tonight marks the first of 12 times this season the Predators take to the ice wearing their new third jerseys, unveiled during Preds Fest in September. Upon his retirement, Brunette spent seven seasons with the Wild in various off-ice roles, including assistant coach and assistant GM, before being hired by the Panthers as an assistant coach in 2019-2020.-New sweaters sport a vintage look, with elements from each of the Original Six teams’ sweaters. Brunette is one of 25 players selected in the seventh round or later to appear in more than 1,000 NHL games. He finished with 268 goals and 733 points in 1,110 games split among six teams, including two separate stints in Minnesota. The Predators just missed the playoffs for the first time under Hynes, who took over in January 2020 after Peter Laviolette was fired.īrunette, who is from Sudbury, Ontario, played 16 seasons in the NHL with the last a one-year stint with Chicago in 2011-12. In Florida, Brunette coached a Panthers team that led the NHL with 337 goals and had the league’s fourth-best power play. “After all, we’re in the winning and the entertainment business,” Trotz said. But he made clear he plans to build a team that can play an offensive style. Trotz said he may have been known as a defensive coach because of the rosters he worked with in Nashville, Washington where he won the Stanley Cup as a coach in 2018 and with the New York Islanders. Their relationship goes back to 1993-94, when Brunette played under Trotz, who was head coach of the Washington Capitals’ American Hockey League affiliate in Portland, Maine, at the age of 19. He not only played for Trotz during the Predators’ inaugural season in 1998-99. “I’m looking forward to growing and grabbing the Predator way, the foundation that which this organization’s been built on and continuing to grow that,” Brunette said. Brunette finished second in the Jack Adams Award voting for the NHL’s coach of the year.īrunette called being back with the Predators exciting after watching both the team and Nashville’s growth since he left. He was promoted to Florida’s interim coach during the 2021-22 season and oversaw the Panthers setting franchise records for wins (58) and points (122) to earn the Presidents’ Trophy before being eliminated in the second round of the playoffs. Trotz credited Hynes with doing a great job with the roster he had.īrunette spent the past season as a New Jersey Devils associate coach under Lindy Ruff and has previous head coaching experience.
Trotz fired John Hynes and assistant Dan Lambert on Tuesday with a year left on their contracts. Trotz, announced in February as Poile’s replacement starting July 1, has been evaluating the franchise for months working with Poile. We’re trying to retool, build a team that can win a Stanley Cup.” “He knows how our organization works and is run from top to bottom, understands what we are trying to do with this club,” Trotz said Wednesday at a news conference introducing Brunette. Incoming general manager Barry Trotz announced the hiring Wednesday of Andrew Brunette, who scored Nashville’s first-ever goal, as the fourth head coach in franchise history. Now the man Poile hired as his first coach here has brought back another original Predator. (AP) - David Poile built the Nashville Predators from the bottom up as their first general manager for the expansion franchise.
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