Barry Trotz: “I'm Going to Start Our Rebuild Plan”

After an offseason where the Nashville Predators handed out massive contracts to the likes of Juuse Saros, Steven Stamkos, Jonathan Marchessault, Brady Skjei and William Carrier, they've had a dreadful start to the 2024-25 season.

Call it 'buyer's remorse' for GM Barry Trotz who is now having some second thoughts.

The Preds have gone 4-7-1 to start the season and yesterday Trotz called out his team for their poor play. In fact, he outright threatened his players with a rebuild if they can't turn things around in quick order.

"If we don't get it going, then I'm going to start our rebuild plan," Trotz said on 102.5 The Game on Tuesday afternoon.

"I'm trying to do some things right now," Trotz said. "We will be limited a little bit because of some of the contracts that we do have. If we don't get it going, then I'm going to start our rebuild plan."

"What we did in the summer was fantasy hockey until we become a good team," Trotz said. "If we do not become a good team, then we're going to see a lot more of our kids starting their process."

If that doesn't put his players on alert, I don't know what will.

"We brought in the veteran players this year to be a threat, and then hopefully in the coming years our young guys come in and they take bigger roles," Trotz said. "If we fall into the position where we fall out and it doesn't come together, then I'm going to start that process and you're gonna see some kids."

As this currently stand the Predators have the 3rd oldest roster in the NHL with an average age of 30.