Nashville Predators: Top 10 prospects entering 2018

10. Carl Persson, LW [23] (UDFA)

Stats (Karlskrona HK, SHL): 52 gp, 13 g, 11 a, 24 p, 4 PPG, 3 GWG (7 pgp, 0 g, 0 a, 0 p).

Carl Persson was tied for 27th in the Swedish Hockey League in the regular season. He was tied for 62nd in scoring and was 101st in points per game. He’s going to need to do better than that down the road to make the Nashville Predators, however. He could make the North American transition sometime soon, but if it comes this season, it could mean the end of his development.

Persson looks like a fourth liner with more goal-scoring prowess than most.

As it stands, Persson is a 23-year-old winger who didn’t score in the Swedish playoffs and looks like a fourth liner with more goal-scoring prowess than most. His defensive game will need to develop to earn that role in the NHL however, and that could mean bringing him to the AHL. Persson could still become impressive, as the SHL is a lower-scoring league, but it doesn’t appear right now that he has a high ceiling, good NHL readiness, or the biggest chances at playing for the Nashville Predators. Yet he’s still better than some in Nashville’s system.