In the 2017-18 season, though, he scored 40. In his first one in 2014-15, he scored one goal in 52 games. He played four seasons for the Moose Jaw Warriors of the WHL. To understand Jeannot’s unyielding, bare-knuckle mindset is to realize that's what got him here – and how unlikely that was, how much of an underdog story he has been to this point. “I don’t want someone stepping in to try to protect me, I guess, when I feel like that’s kind of my job.” “My nature, just how I’ve always been, I always want to have the back of my teammates,” Jeannot said. Good luck stopping him from doing it, though, even if he's scoring 20 or 30 goals. The goals? A nice bonus, perhaps, but one that has grown difficult to ignore.Īs Jeannot continues to improve offensively – he was being used on the power play to start this season and scored Tuesday night against the Los Angeles Kings – the question becomes how much the Predators want one of their key attackers out there fighting people and sitting in the penalty box for five minutes at a time. Jeannot, in particular, has become the personification of the physical, forechecking style that Coach John Hynes has gradually implemented in recent seasons. ![]() The Predators might tweak the lineup in other ways, but they don’t usually touch their hard-driving “HERD” line. ![]() Then, however, Jeannot’s third line with Colton Sissons and Yakov Trenin became a driving force for the team. That’s why the Predators opted to protect Jeannot from the Seattle Kraken in last summer’s expansion draft, a move that was widely questioned at the time. Because Jeannot doesn’t fit any hockey mold other than perhaps the role in which he has seemed perfectly suited to play in Nashville. He’s in incredible shape, incredibly strong. He’s basically a skating football player out there. “I mean, you don’t many guys like him anymore that can score like that and they hit that much. “He’s a bit of a throwback,” Predators forward Matt Duchene said. Such an odd combo makes Jeannot impossible to define as a forward and one of the most unique players in hockey. Jeannot also was third in the league with 130 penalty minutes and was credited with 318 hits – 95 more than any Predators teammate. He did it with a lot of deflections and so-called dirty goals, getting in front of the net. Teams have their brawlers, and Borowiecki is one of them.īut Jeannot? He scored 24 goals last season, leading NHL rookies. How much? Time to find out | EstesĪ bit strange, in one way, because Boro happens to be one of the nicest people you’d ever meet. More: I believe the Nashville Predators are better. More: Here's what I learned about these Nashville Predators by following them to Europe | Estes The only player in the league with more majors than Jeannot’s 14 was defenseman and teammate Marc Borowiecki (15). The Predators were the most fightin’ team in the NHL last season, leading the league in major penalties by a mile. “So I think I earned a little bit of that being able to say no when the time is not right for me. “I know guys know that I will do it,” he said. Perhaps he’ll be able to better pick his spots. ![]() That the 25-year-old Jeannot has fought so much already, actually, may mean that he won’t need to do it as much in the future. Count on it.īut it’s not like the Nashville Predators’ feisty, young forward is out there trying to pick those fights. ![]() One lesson from NHL rinks of late: Players really shouldn’t want to fight Tanner Jeannot. View Gallery: Tanner Jeannot: Nashville Predators forward in photos
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