1998–99 Nashville Predators season
1998–99 Nashville Predators | |
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Division | 4th Central |
Conference | 12th Western |
1998–99 record | 28–47–7 |
Home record | 15–22–4 |
Road record | 13–25–3 |
Goals for | 190 |
Goals against | 261 |
Team information | |
General manager | David Poile |
Coach | Barry Trotz |
Captain | Tom Fitzgerald |
Arena | Nashville Arena |
Average attendance | 16,194 |
Minor league affiliate(s) | Milwaukee Admirals Hampton Roads Admirals |
Team leaders | |
Goals | Sergei Krivokrasov (25) |
Assists | Cliff Ronning (35) |
Points | Cliff Ronning (53) |
Penalty minutes | Patrick Cote (242) |
Plus/minus | Rob Valicevic (+4) |
Wins | Mike Dunham (16) |
Goals against average | Tomas Vokoun (2.95) |
The 1998–99 Nashville Predators season was the team's inaugural season. The team accumulated 28 wins and 47 losses, with seven games ending in ties for a total of 63 points, finishing in fourth place in the Central Division and 12th in the Western Conference. The team failed to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Off-season
In the expansion draft, the Predators chose five goaltenders, including Mike Dunham and Tomas Vokoun, who would become their starting goaltenders, and Mike Richter, who was a free agent and chose not to sign with the Predators. In the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, the Predators chose David Legwand, a center, as their first-ever draft pick, second overall.
Regular season
The Predators struggled on the power-play during the regular season, finishing 27th overall in the NHL in power-play goals scored (40). They also had the lowest penalty-kill percentage in the league, at 78.99%.[1]
Season standings
R | CR | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PIM | Pts | |
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1 | 3 | Detroit Red Wings | 82 | 43 | 32 | 7 | 245 | 202 | 1202 | 93 |
2 | 5 | St. Louis Blues | 82 | 37 | 32 | 13 | 237 | 209 | 1308 | 87 |
3 | 10 | Chicago Blackhawks | 82 | 29 | 41 | 12 | 202 | 248 | 1807 | 70 |
4 | 12 | Nashville Predators | 82 | 28 | 47 | 7 | 190 | 261 | 1420 | 63 |
R | Div | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts | |
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1 | p – Dallas Stars | PAC | 82 | 51 | 19 | 12 | 236 | 168 | 114 |
2 | y – Colorado Avalanche | NW | 82 | 44 | 28 | 10 | 239 | 205 | 98 |
3 | y – Detroit Red Wings | CEN | 82 | 43 | 32 | 7 | 245 | 202 | 93 |
4 | Phoenix Coyotes | PAC | 82 | 39 | 31 | 12 | 205 | 197 | 90 |
5 | St. Louis Blues | CEN | 82 | 37 | 32 | 13 | 237 | 209 | 87 |
6 | Mighty Ducks of Anaheim | PAC | 82 | 35 | 34 | 13 | 215 | 206 | 83 |
7 | San Jose Sharks | PAC | 82 | 31 | 33 | 18 | 196 | 191 | 80 |
8 | Edmonton Oilers | NW | 82 | 33 | 37 | 12 | 230 | 226 | 78 |
9 | Calgary Flames | NW | 82 | 30 | 40 | 12 | 211 | 234 | 72 |
10 | Chicago Blackhawks | CEN | 82 | 29 | 41 | 12 | 202 | 248 | 70 |
11 | Los Angeles Kings | PAC | 82 | 32 | 45 | 5 | 189 | 222 | 69 |
12 | Nashville Predators | CEN | 82 | 28 | 47 | 7 | 190 | 261 | 63 |
13 | Vancouver Canucks | NW | 82 | 23 | 47 | 12 | 192 | 258 | 58 |
Divisions: CEN – Central, PAC – Pacific, NW – Northwest
bold – Qualified for playoffs; p – Won Presidents' Trophy; y – Won division
Schedule and results
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October: 3–5–1 (home: 3–2–0; road: 0–3–1)
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November: 6–7–0 (home: 3–2–0; road: 3–5–0)
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December: 4–6–2 (home: 3–3–2; road: 1–3–0)
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January: 5–9–1 (home: 3–5–1; road: 2–4–0)
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February: 3–6–2 (home: 0–4–1; road: 3–2–1)
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March: 5–8–1 (home: 2–3–0; road: 3–5–1)
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April: 2–6–0 (home: 1–3–0; road: 1–3–0)
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Legend: Win (2 points) Loss (0 points) Tie (1 point) |
Player statistics
Scoring
- Position abbreviations: C = Center; D = Defense; G = Goaltender; LW = Left wing; RW = Right wing
- † = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Predators only.
- ‡ = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Predators only.
Regular season | ||||||||
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No. | Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM |
7 | Cliff Ronning† | C | 72 | 18 | 35 | 53 | −6 | 40 |
22 | Greg Johnson | C | 68 | 16 | 34 | 50 | −8 | 24 |
25 | Sergei Krivokrasov | RW | 70 | 25 | 23 | 48 | −5 | 42 |
71 | Sebastien Bordeleau | C | 72 | 16 | 24 | 40 | −14 | 26 |
24 | Scott Walker | RW | 71 | 15 | 25 | 40 | 0 | 103 |
21 | Tom Fitzgerald | RW | 80 | 13 | 19 | 32 | −18 | 48 |
19 | Andrew Brunette | LW | 77 | 11 | 20 | 31 | −10 | 26 |
10 | Patric Kjellberg | RW | 71 | 11 | 20 | 31 | −13 | 24 |
20 | Jamie Heward | D | 63 | 6 | 12 | 18 | −24 | 44 |
43 | Vitali Yachmenev | LW | 55 | 7 | 10 | 17 | −10 | 10 |
15 | Drake Berehowsky | D | 74 | 2 | 15 | 17 | −9 | 140 |
28 | Denny Lambert | LW | 76 | 5 | 11 | 16 | −3 | 218 |
42 | Joel Bouchard | D | 64 | 4 | 11 | 15 | −10 | 60 |
23 | Blair Atcheynum‡ | RW | 53 | 8 | 6 | 14 | −10 | 16 |
27 | John Slaney | D | 46 | 2 | 12 | 14 | −12 | 14 |
6 | Bob Boughner | D | 79 | 3 | 10 | 13 | −6 | 137 |
44 | Kimmo Timonen | D | 50 | 4 | 8 | 12 | −4 | 30 |
5 | Jan Vopat | D | 55 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 28 |
16 | Ville Peltonen | LW | 14 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 2 |
9 | Darren Turcotte | C | 40 | 4 | 5 | 9 | −11 | 16 |
12 | Rob Valicevic | RW | 19 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
18 | Mark Mowers | C | 30 | 0 | 6 | 6 | −4 | 4 |
36 | J. J. Daigneault‡ | D | 35 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −4 | 38 |
32 | Jeff Daniels | LW | 9 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 2 |
7[a] | Jeff Nelson | C | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −1 | 2 |
17 | Patrick Cote | LW | 70 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −7 | 242 |
4 | Jay More | D | 18 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 18 |
8 | Doug Friedman | LW | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 14 |
40 | Karlis Skrastins | D | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
29 | Tomas Vokoun | G | 37 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
7[b] | Greg de Vries‡ | D | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 4 |
1 | Mike Dunham | G | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
35 | Eric Fichaud | G | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
47 | Matt Henderson | RW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 |
2 | Dan Keczmer† | D | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 12 |
11 | David Legwand | C | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
30 | Chris Mason | G | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
12 | Brad Smyth | RW | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 6 |
50 | Petr Sykora | C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 |
2 | Rob Zettler | D | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 |
Goaltending
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No. | Player | GP | W | L | T | SA | GA | GAA | SV% | SO | TOI |
1 | Mike Dunham | 44 | 16 | 23 | 3 | 1387 | 127 | 3.08 | .908 | 1 | 2472 |
29 | Tomas Vokoun | 37 | 12 | 18 | 4 | 1041 | 96 | 2.95 | .908 | 1 | 1954 |
35 | Eric Fichaud | 9 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 229 | 24 | 3.22 | .895 | 0 | 447 |
30 | Chris Mason | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 6 | 5.22 | .864 | 0 | 69 |
Awards and records
Awards
Type | Award/honor | Recipient | Ref |
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League (in-season) | NHL All-Star Game selection | Sergei Krivokrasov | [5] |
Transactions
This section will cover signings from May 4, 1998, until the end of the 1998–99 season.
Free agent signings
Nashville signed the following free agents between June and September 1998: Jayson More (June 4), Tom Fitzgerald (July 6), David Gosselin (July 9), Jeff Staples (July 16), Brad Smyth (July 16), Jamie Heward (Aug. 6), Andrew Brunette (Sept. 2), Vitali Yachmenev (Sept. 2), Sebastien Bordeleau (Sept. 3) and Sergei Krivokrasov (Sept. 11).
All season trades
Date | Traded | Acquired | Acquired From |
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May 29 | future considerations | Marian Cisar | Los Angeles Kings |
June 26 | future considerations | Kimmo Timonen and Jan Vopat | Los Angeles Kings |
June 26 | future considerations | Darren Turcotte | St. Louis Blues |
June 26 | 1998 5th round pick | Ville Peltonen | San Jose Sharks |
June 26 | future considerations | Sergei Krivokrasov | Chicago Blackhawks |
June 26 | future considerations | Jim Dowd | Calgary Flames |
June 26 | future considerations | Sebastien Bordeleau | Montreal Canadiens |
June 26 | 1998 7th round pick | Dominic Roussel and Jeff Staples | Philadelphia Flyers |
June 30 | 1999 7th round pick | Mike Sullivan | Phoenix Coyotes |
July 7 | future considerations | Vitali Yachmenev | Los Angeles Kings |
July 9 | future considerations | Tony Hrkac | Dallas Stars |
July 14 | Doug Brown | Petr Sykora, 1999 3rd round pick, and 1999 conditional pick | Detroit Red Wings |
August 19 | future considerations | Jeff Nelson | Washington Capitals |
Oct 1 | Jim Dowd and Mikhail Shtalenkov | Drake Berehowsky, Eric Fichaud and Greg de Vries | Edmonton Oilers |
Oct 5 | Dominic Roussel | Marc Moro and Chris Mason | Mighty Ducks of Anaheim |
Oct 25 | Greg de Vries | 1999 3rd round draft pick | Colorado Avalanche |
Oct 31 | future considerations | Cliff Ronning and Richard Lintner | Phoenix Coyotes |
Jan 13 | J. J. Daigneault | future considerations | Phoenix Coyotes |
Jan 26 | future considerations | Sergei Klimentiev | Philadelphia Flyers |
Mar 23 | Blair Atcheynum | 2000 6th round pick | St. Louis Blues |
Apr 13 | 1999 4th round pick | Andy Berenzweig | New York Islanders |
May 3 | Brad Smyth | future considerations | New York Rangers |
Draft picks
Expansion draft
These results are numbered 1–26 for aesthetic purposes, but the players were not necessarily chosen in this order. As the Predators were the only team participating in the draft, the order is inconsequential.
Entry draft
Nashville's draft picks at the 1998 NHL Entry Draft held at the Marine Midland Arena in Buffalo, New York.[6]
Round | # | Player | Position | Nationality | College/Junior/Club team |
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1 | 2 | David Legwand | Center | United States | Plymouth Whalers (OHL) |
3 | 60 | Denis Arkhipov | Center | Russia | Ak Bars Kazan (Russia) |
3 | 85 | Geoff Koch | Left Wing | United States | University of Michigan (Big Ten) |
4 | 88 | Kent Sauer | Defense | United States | North Iowa Huskies (USHL) |
5 | 138 | Martin Beauchesne | Defense | Canada | Sherbrooke Faucons (QMJHL) |
6 | 147 | Craig Brunel | Right Wing | United States | Prince Albert Raiders (WHL) |
8 | 202 | Martin Bartek | Left Wing | Slovakia | Sherbrooke Faucons (QMJHL) |
9 | 230 | Karlis Skrastins | Defense | Latvia | TPS (SM-liiga) |
Notes
References
- "Nashville Predators 1998-99 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com". www.hockeydb.com. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
- "1998-99 Nashville Predators Roster, Stats, Injuries, Scores, Results, Shootouts". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
- Dinger, Ralph, ed. (2011). The National Hockey League Official Guide & Record Book 2012. Toronto: Dan Diamond & Associates. ISBN 978-1-894801-22-5.
- Podnieks, Andrew (2000). The NHL All-Star Game: 50 years of the great tradition. Toronto: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-200058-X.
- ^ "1998-99 NHL Summary".
- ^ Dinger 2011, p. 155.
- ^ "1998-1999 Conference Standings Standings - NHL.com - Standings". NHL.
- ^ "1998-99 Nashville Predators Schedule". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
- ^ "NHL All-Star Game Historical Summaries - 1999". NHL.com. Retrieved June 27, 2023.
- ^ "1998 NHL Entry Draft Picks at hockeydb.com". www.hockeydb.com. Retrieved June 28, 2023.
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