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Barry Trotz is the only head trainer that the Predators franchise has known, taking the reins back on Aug. 6, 1997, and refusing to comply them since. Lindy Ruff, currently the longest-tenured bench boss, took his put with the Buffalo Sabres 16 days prior. Like Ruff -- who's had the further of helming teams backstopped by elite goalies like Dominik Hasek and Ryan Miller -- Trotz and the Predators have had a line of impressive goaltenders to man the crease, beginning with Tomas Vokoun , exciting through the Chris Mason and Dan Ellis days, and now into the reign of Pekka Rinne . Though Vokoun has had some celebrity in other locales (more on his current, nausea-inducing season in a bit), Mason and Ellis had their greatest work while playing for Trotz and the Preds. That's not to say that Trotz's defensive system is the singular reason for the success of the netminders, but it certainly doesn't hurt the precipitate to have one of the league's best groups of blue-liners working in their defensive end.

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by Jonathan Edwards - Olympian

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