By the way, I have to say I'm starting love the Preds. I definitely feel like they make the best of being a "small-market" team. They invest heavily in goal-tending and defence - which makes sense, given those two positions play the most - and then go after two-way players on offence who won't charge exorbitant salaries but who can play their play-off system to perfection.
They've only made it out of round 1 once but the past two seasons they've lost to the SC winners and the SC runners-up.
Although I suppose the counter-argument is having a big-time scorer/more offensive team might draw in better crowds. It's too bad they lost Radulov.
EDIT: I also feel, although MacLean signals a pursuit of the Detroit system (which I love more than any other in the game right now) that we kinda have a Nashville style team in the making. Lehner in goal, Karlsson, Cowen, Rundblad, Wiercioch, Lee, Gryba, Boro etc. on D, and then a number of "two-way" guys like Zibanejad, Noesen, Silfverberg, and to a lesser extent Condra, Greening et al. up front. Of course we also have pure offensive guys like Puempel, Filatov, Butler, and Petersson, and a legit #1C in Spezza.
I guess it depends on what we do with next year's first-round pick. It wouldn't surprise me to see us go defence (Murray, Ebert) considering the three best forwards at this point are Russian (albeit they'll all be in the CHL next year and Galchenyuk IIRC has decided on playing for the US internationally).