(Ed. Note: There’s entirely too much sunshine in the summer. So your friends at Puck Daddy are offering a month of thrown shade and perpetual gloom. Behold, our Summer of Disappointment series, in which we ask fans of all 30 teams to recall the biggest bummer moments, teams and players in franchise history! Please wade into their misery like a freezing resort pool, and add your own choices in the comments!)

Written by Link of The Predcast

Most Disappointing Team: 2006-2007 Nashville Predators



The 2006-2007 Nashville Predators were the best team that the organization have ever iced. The team finished the season with the second most wins in the league 51-23-8 and only three points back from the Western Conference champion Detroit Red Wings. A Red Wings team that only managed that feat thanks to 13 overtime losses, a strategy that other teams such as the Florida Panthers have employed as a means of embarrassing their way into the playoffs.

The Predators ended the season being lead by a rejuvenated Paul Kariya (24g, 76pts) supported by J.P. Dumont, David Legwand, and Steve Sullivan all breaking 20 goals and 60 points in additional to fifty point scoring Martin Erat, Kimmo Timonen, and Jason Arnott. On top of all of those players were Scott Hartnell, Shea Weber, and Alexander Radulov all reaching or brushing 40 points.

Oh, David Poile also traded Scottie Upshall and human ping-pong ball Ryan Parent for an only slightly damaged Peter Forsberg, who still managed to put up 15 points in 17 games

The only truly elite team in Nashville Predators history was subsequently eliminated by the San Jose Sharks 4 games to 1 to make the season feel like a pointless waste of everyone’s time.

Most Disappointing Predator: David Legwand



There are so many choices if for no other reason than Nashville teams were frequently put together in the same way that you try and build an awesome LEGO robot after your brothers have already taken most of the useful bricks in order to make whatever stupid things they wanted to make and that you’re just going to smash later.

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It has to be first ever Nashville Predators draft pick David Legwand.

Legwand.

He joined the NHL directly from juniors and looked poised to continue his junior success in the world’s finest league. And then he turned into a dull two-way forward worth about 40 points a year.

For 15 years fans would get chills as he demonstrate the same flashes of hockey prowess that had lead to him getting drafted book-ended by long spells of dutifully back-checking and shorthanded play.

First round draft picks turn into quality two-way players all the time, so what makes David Legwand so disappointing?

Legwand leads the organization in games played, goals, goals at even strength, assists, game winning goals, shots, goals on-ice for, is third in penalty minutes, second in hat tricks, and is second in short-handed goals. He holds most of these records for the simple fact that he stuck around for so long. No current or past Predator is even close to threatening those numbers. When you balance it all out by seeing that Legwand is 10th in goals and points per game and 9th in assists you just feel empty inside.

Most Disappointing Moment in Predators History: Martin Erat in Game 5 against the Blackhawks in 2010