Predicting every NHL team’s future Hall of Famers

Nashville Predators – David Poile

He hasn’t won a Stanley Cup yet, but he’s been a general manager for a very long time and built an expansion team into a Stanley Cup contender. David Poile will be in the Hall of Fame one day. But since the Hall is odd with builders, who knows when that day will come? I think it’ll be soon, though.

Nashville Predators – Barry Trotz

Barry Trotz was already a fringe Hall of Fame candidate even before his Washington Capitals won the 2018 Stanley Cup. Now he’s a slam dunk candidate. Trotz will retire as one of the winningest coaches of all-time and he’ll forever be known as the guy who helped the Capitals end the seemingly eternal DC sports curse.

Honorable mentions: Pekka Rinne’s going to be an interesting candidate. He probably ends up with over 400 wins, maybe even 500. Rinne has a Vezina Trophy on his resume, which will certainly help his cause. If the Hall of Fame was a bit kinder to goalies, I’d have him as a slam dunk candidate. Rinne has a much better chance of getting in if someone like Curtis Joseph (more on him later) or Roberto Luongo gets in.