Overview
- Nashville announced Sunday that Cole Smith has an upper-body injury with a three-to-six week timeline and Roman Josi has been moved to injured reserve.
- Josi remains week-to-week with an upper-body issue that the team has said is unrelated to his prior POTS diagnosis.
- Smith exited Saturday’s 4–2 win over Calgary after a hit from Ryan Lomberg and logged 1:55 of ice time before leaving.
- Smith has been a primary penalty-kill forward—leading Predators forwards in shorthanded ice time the past two seasons—on a unit that ranked seventh last season and sits sixth early this year.
- In Smith’s absence, Ozzy Wiesblatt stepped into a top penalty-kill role alongside Michael McCarron for just over two minutes, and Nashville could also lean more on veteran Ryan O’Reilly or give Fedor Svechkov additional looks.