Can the Nashville Predators finish off their improbable playoff run?

LOS ANGELES — Steven Stamkos emphatically let it be known that he had no interest in being traded from the Nashville Predators. And when general Barry Trotz subtracted from the roster at the March 6 deadline, Stamkos, one of the game’s greatest goal-scorers, was not pleased.There is a rational way of looking at a situation, as opposed to an emotional one. And when the deadline arrived, the Predators were outside a playoff spot in the Western Conference. Adding a player for the short term wasn’t the logical play. So Nashville moved on from forwards Michael Bunting, Michael McCarron and Cole Smith, and defenseman Nick Blankenburg.Advertisement