Nashville Predators' 2009-10 Season Preview

I will be previewing all 30 NHL clubs. I will be looking at their available salary cap room, the additions and deletions from the 2008-09 rosters, and where I think they will stack up in their division and conference for the 2009-10 campaign.  Let's get a move on with the Nashville Predators, which play in the Central Division of the Western Conference. The Nashville Predators are entering their 12th season in the NHL and they have the second longest serving head coach in the NHL today. Barry Trotz was hired 16 days after current Buffalo Sabres' Head Coach, Lindy Ruff. Trotz is the only head coach in the history of the Predators and as long as his General Manager sticks around, his position  as head coach appears to be safe for the foreseeable future. David Poile just happens to be the only General Manager in the history of the Predators as well.   With that kind of consistency in the hockey operations department, why does this franchi...