Ilya Lyubushkin
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Oct 21, 2026
Dave PagnottaGUEST
How is this season gonna play out? And how the season plays out will dictate what they do with, you know, O'Reilly, with, you know, Ross Colton, with, with couple other blue liners that are on expiring deals as well.
Dave PagnottaGUEST
Um, I believe Lyubushkin and, and I think Pervych or somebody else on that blue line that's on an expiring deal.
Dave PagnottaGUEST
Uh, and then, you know, w- w- what do you do with Josi, who has another year on his contract? What do you do with Forsberg? What do you do with some of the other peop- Marchessault, um, and so on.
Dave PagnottaGUEST
So the, the success or lack of success this season is really gonna dictate how busy MacFarland's gonna be between now and the March 1st trade deadline.
Max GreenbergHOST
I'll, I'll say, I'll say this, and way less significantly, [laughs] but it's, it's something I just I, I gotta comment on.
Max GreenbergHOST
Th- the Preds do not, they, they do not think highly of Ilya Lyubushkin.
Max GreenbergHOST
He has not played in a single game.
Max GreenbergHOST
He was on waivers.
Tony CordascoHOST
A team, uh, that should be better with Ross Colton from the Avs.
Tony CordascoHOST
Ilya Lyubushkin is now a member of the Predators.
Tony CordascoHOST
Um, they have a new president and general manager, president and GM, I should say, former GM of the Avalanche, Chris MacFarland.
Tony CordascoHOST
Um, and a good late push by the Predators last season, Kris, but they fell four points short of the playoffs right behind the LA Kings, and Nashville missed the playoffs the past two seasons.
Sho AlliHOST
... and they just have never really had that, really.
Ben EnnisHOST
No, it's an Ilya Lyubushkin here.
Sho AlliHOST
[laughs] Right.
Ben EnnisHOST
Yeah.
Willie DonickHOST
And they have announced that William Trudeau is on IR, so there will be clearly a, a difference in the defense.
Willie DonickHOST
We'll see if they go with the veteran in Lyubushkin or they go back to Jack Acciari, who's more of an offensive defenseman, play-making kind of guy.
Willie DonickHOST
Lyubushkin's more your traditional, tough, stay-at-home defender kind of guy.
Willie DonickHOST
Not super mobile, not a puck mover, but a, a, a defender who's played a lot of hockey in his career.
Willie DonickHOST
So those are your options there.
Chase McCabeHOST
And the starters for the Predators, Maverick Bourque, Jonathan Marchessault, a couple of French Canadians, with Reid Schaefer, and then Roman Josi and Nick Hague.
Chase McCabeHOST
Uh, the scratches will be Lyubushkin, Jak下滑an, and Vitali Pinchuk, who is yet to make his Predators and NHL debut.
Chase McCabeHOST
So that is what the lineups will look like here tonight.
Chase McCabeHOST
You'll come back here from the head coach, Andrew Brunette.
8 MINS LATER
Max HerzHOST
The Preds will start their forward line featuring two Quebec natives, Jonathan Marchessault on right wing, Maverick Bourque at center, and joining those two Quebecois, Reid Schaefer returning to the lineup and playing on the third line, left wing, with Marchessault and Bourque tonight.
Max HerzHOST
Nick Haggin, Roman Josi, the top D pair will get the start for the Preds.
Max HerzHOST
Saros in goal, and the Predators' healthy scratches tonight are Vitali Pinchuk, plus defensemen Jack McBain and Ilya Lyubushkin.
Max HerzHOST
For the Canadiens, they are starting second-year goaltender Jacob Fowler, who was called up from their AHL team yesterday after Samuel Montembeault got injured in practice.
Max HerzHOST
Yeah, a lot of balls in the air at all three positions on the Preds roster right now.
Max HerzHOST
When is Vitali Pinchuk gonna get in? If the Preds go back to 12 and six in their lineup, would Reid Schaefer get another look first, or would Pinchuk go? Are they gonna keep playing seven defensemen? Ilya Lyubushkin still hasn't played in a game.
Max HerzHOST
And then Juuse Saros taking a knock in practice last week.
Max HerzHOST
That definitely was not something that they planned for, but Matt Murray's here.
Jim BiringerGUEST
There was belief in what the general manager was doing, and there was a buy-in from what the general manager was doing.
Jim BiringerGUEST
You get Nils Höglander, you know, Ilya Lyubushkin is there as well.
Jim BiringerGUEST
You moved on from some players like Evangelista and Zachary L'Heureux.
Jim BiringerGUEST
And, and again, the trend of moving on from young players under the previous administration I really didn't like, because you had guys like Tomasino that could've been really helpful.
Shawn FerrisHOST
[laughs]
Josh YounggrenHOST
From doing that, though, there were a couple players that I had, at the time, not really paid much attention to, that I, I always, for whatever reason, Lyubushkin was one of them.
Josh YounggrenHOST
I remember at the time, I think he was on the Coyotes.
Josh YounggrenHOST
I could be wrong.
Josh YounggrenHOST
I think he was on the Coyotes, and it was, like, a question about whether or not the Coyotes...
Josh YounggrenHOST
I, I should just look this up, but, um, about whether, uh- Oh, that's funny in hindsight now ...
Josh YounggrenHOST
if, whether the Coyotes were gonna protect Ilya Lyubushkin.
Josh YounggrenHOST
Uh, and I remember that was w- there, so there were a few of those players.