Who will back up Pre­da­tors star­ting goa­lie Pekka Rinne next season?

Preds gene­ral mana­ger David Poile said today that the repla­ce­ment for Dan Ellis may well come from outside the organization.

``We need a second goa­lie next year,’’ Poile said. ``

In a follow-up to that ans­wer later on, Poile said he didn’t mean to rule out the pos­si­bi­lity of Mark Deka­nich or Chet Pic­kard making the jump from the AHL to the NHL next season.

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- As for defen­se­man Denis Gre­besh­kov, Poile said the Pre­da­tors are unli­kely to make him a qua­lif­ying offer...

- Poile said today he’s yet to make a deci­sion on whether or not to make a qua­lif­ying offer to for­ward Dus­tin Boyd...

- Poile said the only other poten­tial res­tric­ted free agent in the orga­ni­za­tion that won’t get a qua­lif­ying offer is for­ward Peter Olvecky...

- That means a host of other pla­yers – such as Mark Deka­nich, Robert Die­trich, Cody Fran­son, Patric Hornq­vist, Teemu Laakso, Mike San­to­re­lli, Andreas Thu­res­son, Matt Elli­son and Antti Pihls­trom – will get qua­lif­ying offers...

- As for poten­tial unres­tric­ted free agents in the orga­ni­za­tion, Poile says the club will not make offers to vete­rans Ben Guite and Dave Scatchard. He said the team has made an offer to vete­ran blue­li­ner Nolan Yonk­man. The Preds will wait on for­ward Hugh Jes­si­man to reco­ver from shoul­der sur­gery later this sum­mer before deci­ding whether they will make a new con­tract offer to him...


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