I’d recommend picking a character supplied by the game for their great story quests. Gameplay is a unique combination of real-time movement and turn-based fighting, which emulates the feel of D&D-style combat. This Dungeons & Dragons-style RPG lets each player control one to two characters in their party (up to a full party of four) on an incredible expedition on an enormous fantasy map packed with secrets. Up to four can play with online multiplayer you can even have two on local split-screen, with two more through online play (though there’s no cross-platform play.) Disclaimer: I haven’t tried this one split-screen - in fact, I didn’t realize it was possible until doing research for this piece - but I have played a truly unspeakable number of multiplayer hours. You also must play Divinity: Original Sin 2, which has split-screen for up to two players on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. ![]() The game’s map is also enormous and intricate, with three interlocking layers that become easier to navigate as you gain new abilities, like throwing ice shurikens or riding giant spinning tops on high wires. As time passes, more of the characters in this intricate world turn over to darkness.Ĭouch co-op is a huge help, as Unsighted’s challenging, Zelda-like puzzles and cool boss fights are much easier with someone to assist you. In this Metroidvania, you play as a humanoid automaton who needs to find a constant supply of gem medication in order to avoid a truly horrible fate: becoming an “unsighted,” a mindless robot who no longer recognizes friends and instead attacks anybody on sight. ![]() Speaking of criminally underrated games, Unsighted is another two-player indie gem for the Switch that’s even better with a partner in crime. The absurdity ratchets up at a brisk pace, and the game is only more fun in good company. I made a zombie that spawned attack bunnies and bit people, while my boyfriend played as a ghost with a horse dash. Leveling up a form unlocks additional attacks and status effects - and best of all, you can mix and match them for maximum chaos. Switch into a horse to romance a horse, or disguise yourself as three different types of human in order to bamboozle a shopkeeper. You and a buddy fight your way through different dungeons and biomes in a Zelda-esque world, which have silly little quests related to various creatures. The magician can pull attack bunnies out of a hat, while the turtle can swim through water - so unlocking new creatures also means exploring new parts of the map, thanks to these features. And each form has its own set of attacks and exploration perks. But instead of just leveling up this little guy, you unlock different “forms,” like a turtle, a ghost, or a magician, to name just a few. The RPG dungeon-crawler puts you in the shoes of a character named “Nobody” who is tasked with saving the world (shocking, I know). Nobody Saves the World is the quirkiest, most delightful Nintendo Switch couch co-op game I played this year. Here are some of my favorites - particularly ones that give each player the same amount of power, rather than one primary and one assist player - that are playable on Nintendo Switch or PlayStation 4, as you requested in our Dear Polygon submission form. But that’s an expensive hobby! Playing split-screen means getting to enjoy more games, on a leaner budget. Sure, there are a ton of multiplayer games where you can play online, so long as both players own a copy. I love co-op games and also lament how hard it is to find couch co-ops. ![]() ![]() Hello, Jeffrey “Mad For Multiplayer” Miller! You’ve come to the right place. Because of this we love playing split screen or general 2 player games, but this is a very hard find nowadays, and the only articles you can find on Google are sponsored and show the same 3 games. I am very happily dating a very lovely person and we both like playing video games together, but are also poor so we can’t afford multiple consoles or the strongest WiFi connection.
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![]() Robbie will also reprise her role as Harley Quinn in James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” due out in August 2021, a re-imagining of the critically panned 2016 original. The superhero movie is directed by Cathy Yan, the mind behind comedy-drama “Dead Pigs.” Because I’m Harley Freaking Quinn.”Īlong with the cast that appeared in the trailer, “Birds of Prey” will star Ali Wong, Robert Catrini, Chris Messina, Steven Williams and Derek Wilson. “I’m the one you should be scared of,” says Quinn. Not much is disclosed beyond that, although we gather from the clip that Harley will be collecting many villain heads with her supersize mallet and spewing “girl power” quotes galore. Their mission: Rescue Cassandra Cain, a k a Batgirl (Ella Jay Basco), from the diabolical Black Mask, played by an almost unrecognizable Ewan McGregor. She’s referring to fellow bad gals Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), whom she’ll be joining forces with to form a bizarro Charlie’s Angels squad of sorts, reports Cinemablend. However, as everyone’s favorite clown gal mentions, “I wasn’t the only dame in Gotham looking for emancipation.” Harley is back in Gotham City, looking for a fresh start after her “messy breakup” with the Joker (Jared Leto) in 2016’s “Suicide Squad.” has finally released the first full-length trailer for its film “Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn.” And it has Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) looking demented as all hell, with a full cast of like-minded anti-heroines by her side.Īnd unlike the initial teaser trailer for the upcoming spinoff flick, this full two-minute promo is rife with plot and cast details. Discovery CEO David Zaslav ditches NYC offices for LA: report Troubled Ezra Miller praised as 'Flash' trailer drops: 'One of the best' What movie villain are you based on your zodiac sign? Bruce doesn’t have much of an arc…how is he different at the end than the beginning? Because Alfred let Vicki Vale in the Batcave? He doesn’t really get his “revenge” and end his story, he doesn’t realize vengeance isn’t the answer, justice is, he’s pretty much the same.'Superman' top contenders to replace Henry Cavill revealed We basically end on her looking longingly, other than the superhero money shot. She even has a kind of an arc accepting Batman. Vicki Vale really is the protagonist in the movie. ![]() That’s an interesting take I’ve never thought about once, but you’re right. ![]() No one ever cast as Batman would ever scare anyone, in costume or out. They’ve never a 100% nailed it because that’s easier to draw than to cast. A guy as good looking as Bruce Wayne but big and scary as Batman, and can act. And I really like Keaton as an actor, but he wasn’t really Bruce Wayne or Batman. ![]() It was groundbreaking as a “serious” superhero movie at the time, but doesn’t hold up completely well. That movie succeeded on Jack Nicholson and tremendous production design, not his performance. I don’t think he was horrible, but this retro nostalgia thing that he was some great Batman was always weird to me. “I really have no idea.” ( With reporting by Vlada Gelman) Reprising the role for Batgirl “was great, it was fun,” he said. So, when might Keaton next, actually be seen as Batman…? If ever? He also reprised the role for the long-delayed, potentially-in-limbo, Ezra Miller-starring The Flash standalone movie, and he reportedly has been replaced with Ben Affleck in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (in theaters Dec. “Particularly with DC, where we think we want to pivot and we want to elevate and we want to focus.”īatgirl was to mark one of Keaton’s first encores as Batman since 1992’s Batman Returns. And we’re not going to put a movie out unless we believe in it,” WBD’s President and CEO David Zaslav later explained. We’re not going to launch a movie to make a quota. “We’re not going to launch movie until it’s ready. The standalone pic, starring In the Heights‘ Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl, by some accounts was not testing well enough with audiences to instill confidence in Warner Bros. The decision to shelve the nearly-complete Batgirl movie - which was intended to bypass theaters and premiere on HBO Max - sent shockwaves across the entertainment biz in early August. ![]() In August of 2000, the bridge was closed in both directions for 12 days after a routine inspection found serious damage to one of six cables used to support it. In its 25-year existence, the Mid-Bay Bridge has been closed multiple times for repairs. TRAFFIC: Seasonal road closures near Mid-Bay Bridge in Niceville starting this weekend. Planned activities are weather dependent and may be rescheduled in the event of inclement weather. Monday, July 6 through Saturday, July 11 as workers remove and replace steel tendons. The bridge will open to traffic once repairs are complete. NICEVILLE The Mid-Bay Bridge will be closed to all traffic from 11 p.m. The Mid-Bay Bridge, a 3.6-mile two lane toll bridge spanning the Choctawhatchee Bay, was built in 1993 and averages 22,000 vehicles per day. FDOT’s number one priority is the safety of the traveling public and routine bridge inspections are one tool the department uses to provide a safe and efficient transportation system. ![]() The closure is a cautionary measure intended to minimize the stresses on the bridge while FDOT personnel repair the tendons. There are multiple tendons in each span of the Mid-Bay Bridge. Post-tensioning tendons are one of the internal support systems placed inside the bridge. The closure was placed after a routine inspection of the Mid Bay Bridge where FDOT inspectors found corrosion on post-tensioning tendons, a pre-stressed steel cable inside the bridge that reinforces concrete. Motorists who use the Mid-Bay Bridge should make alternate plans for their Wednesday morning commute. ![]() Temporary message boards have been placed on both ends of the bridge to alert drivers about the temporary closure. The Florida Department of Transportation has indefinitely closed the Mid-Bay Bridge (State Road 293) in both directions for emergency repairs. ![]() Exploit planets, navigate asteroid belts and overcome deep space dangers while handling interspecies relations to gain the upper hand. As the galactic ruler of your race you will lead your people into a procedurally-generated galaxy, exploring and expanding your space empire to greatness. In this eagerly anticipated sequel, the core mechanics have evolved to incorporate a turn-based strategic layer, featuring spectacular realtime battles. There are only so many games you can play against a computer before longing for a new challenge.StarDrive 2 is an exciting and evolutionary step forward for the StarDrive franchise. While enjoyable in most instances, outer space does get to feel a bit lonely with only single-player mode available and a lack of AI competence. StarDrive 2 is a solid 4x title for those that are looking for hours of gameplay out of an empire building game. Aside from the two available modes, we can only hope to see some multiplayer functionality in StarDrive 3, maybe? One of the highlights of battle arena would be the ability to load up your custom spaceships and check out their viability outside of the campaign mode. The game also comes with a battle arena, which is essentially fixed battles that you can relive at your leisure, though there aren’t many challenges to take on. However, that doesn’t reduce the enjoyable memories that the game offers. With only a single-player campaign available, your mileage will vary, as multiplayer could have elevated the StarDrive series to greater heights, perhaps on the level of Civilization. There are also options to save your templates so that you can bring them up in subsequent campaigns if you opt to play some more StarDrive 2. It is even better with the real-time battles as you can put your spaceships into real combat situations and see how they fare against the enemy. While this doesn’t have too much of an effect on the overall game, it is a nice addition to tailor your race and play style to your liking. From ion cannons to kinetic weapons, you have the freedom to choose how to equip your spaceships. One of the main draws of StarDrive 2 is the ability to create your own spaceships with a number of templates and opinions for customization. The templates are there if you’d prefer to follow the limited “lore” of the alien races, but it is entirely optional. This is mostly due to the fact that the player can pick their empire abilities as they see fit and build off their choices rather than following a default template. The alien races in StarDrive 2 are more preferential to the player rather than being crucial in opening up new strategies. And with a plethora of win conditions, techs, events, XCOM-like turn-based ship raids, epic space battles there are plenty of things to keep your attention. Even a small scenario will have multiple star clusters that will provide you with tens of hours of gameplay.Īs a single-player experience for most of the game, a heavy reliance on replayability is needed for players to stick with the game for the long run. ![]() StarDrive 2 asks the player to expand, explore, exploit and exterminate your opposition with what is a very lengthy empire building game. If you are accustomed to building an empire in games such as Galactic Civilization or Civilization, you’ll probably be pretty comfortable with the 4x genre. The spaceship battles are flashy and also well presented in that border line of scrimmage. The soundtrack, while conservative, was also very complementary to the overall tone of building a space empire. Portrayal of the alien races are memorable and the painted animations work to help give more character to these aliens. But in all honesty, the game doesn’t need to change its art style as it gave the game its unique and carefree personality. StarDrive 2 follows a similar artistic style to the original, and at first glance, doesn’t seem to be any different. The camera and panning also felt pretty smooth and complements the overall experience. The majority of the time spent will be on the main universe map to control and manage your empire.Īdditional one-click shortcuts are available if you wish to oversee a more in-depth spectrum of your empire, such as researching technology or building your own ships. The controls in StarDrive 2 are pretty standard and similar to most 4x titles with the exception of the battles, which are conducted on a separate battle map. If you’re looking for a game where you can build a space empire and rule the universe as fluffy shogun bears, then StarDrive 2 will give you that playful absurdity. The humorous nature of the races and their interactions with the player, and each other, makes the long nature of these types of games more palatable and entertaining. Kinda long ago, in a galaxy a good bit away…Īs a 4X space sim with some wonky space faring races, StarDrive 2 is an outlier to what is usually a serious genre. ![]() Distracted, Black☆Star fails to anticipate Patty running up behind him and kicking him in the testicles. Before standing before Patty, Black☆Star assures Angela Leon he will win.Īfter Naigus announces the sparring match to begin, Black☆Star calls a time out to make the fight even, and more interesting, with a handicap: he orders Tsubaki to bind his hands so he does not attack Patty directly with his wavelength. ![]() Kilik Rung also thinks Black☆Star will beat Patty, prompting Jacqueline to remind Kilik he lost against Patty as well. This remark causes Jacqueline and other female students to blush-and Kim's blushing frustrates Ox. Black☆Star mocks Kim's abilities-infuriating Kim, who demands payment for her services-before saying that he promised Mifune to become a Warrior God, hence he will not remove this scar so easily. Jacqueline notices the cut on Black☆Star's right arm across his star tattoo, left by Mifune in their previous battle, which Kim could not heal despite repeated attempts with her Regeneration Magic. At that moment, Black☆Star appears to challenge Patty, despite his injuries, to see whether he is stronger than Death the Kid's weapon. While Patty's defeated opponents are annoyed, Tsubaki admits she would be as proud if her meister were fighting. Liz Thompson praises her younger sister's fighting skills. ![]() Éclair tries to ignore his meister's comment and focus on how Patty may be stronger than Maka. Ox Ford, bruised from his duel against Patty, says he as the Lightning King could not defeat her indoors-and cannot resist saying Kim beats all people hear in terms of cuteness-while Harvar D. Jacqueline O'Lantern Dupre says that Patty has fought five partners in a row without tiring, leading Naigus to recognize how Patty is wasted as a weapon given her in-person combat skills. Tsubaki Nakatsukasa and Mira Naigus are impressed by the sparring match that they watch, more so with Kim Diehl's opponent, Patty Thompson. Next morning at the DWMA, students practice sparring. Soul reverts to his human form and collects the soul. Frey, attacks, using Nine Inch Nails, but this technique is blocked by Maka, who proceeds to bifurcate her. Looking from above at Sadoko, Maka Albarn announces Sadoko's crimes-forcing victims to listen to a cursed recording so to be killed in their nightmare-for which Maka will harvest Sadoko's soul.Īs Maka jumps toward Sadoko, Soul Eater reminds her with this, they will finally claim their one-hundredth soul. Sadoko condescends to the "DWMA bitch" who stands against her and the god she represents. Sadoko (first appearance dead)ĭeath Weapon Meister Academy is a school with one goal for its students: meisters collect 99 human souls and one witch's soul to feed to a weapon, who then will become Death's weapon. ![]() This will be a bit of a headache with the wooden honeycomb defense tactic, but it’s a side effect that can’t be avoided easily. If you have multiple layers of level 1 walls this could save you resources when repairing horde damage as level two walls require more resources. Best design Ive seen so far in my opinio. ![]() The horde zombies can break wooden walls, so you’ll need to keep your eyes on the horde timer and actively repair the walls if you are raiding often. Vault design strategy guide and tips for dem dwellers based on my gameplay :-) good for beginner to advanced users. Bait chests are chests that you place throughout your protective honeycomb sections to distract the raider with garbage loot, and in turn making their noise meter go up from breaking into the unknowingly bogus chests.Īs an aside, you’ll also need to be aware of the horde if your outer walls are wooden. In addition to the honeycomb approach, you’ll want to supplement it with “ bait chests“. Both types of power rooms are more efficient in 2-wide room configurations - at max level you get about 1.5 times more power per minute per node. You could also opt for using level two walls for the inner 3×3 loot room, and you could use a combination of level two and one walls in the honeycomb, but you would need additional layers around the loot room, and this approach is definitely less secure. I've got plenty of experience with Fallout Shelter from when it first launched on iPhone (I may have played it way too much), and as such, have perfected its many devious arts: dweller management sending adventurers to the wasteland rushing rooms with impunity and impregnating your female dwellersfor the good of the specieswhen the time comes. When they break through the outer layer walls they’ll be generating noise, and at a certain point the noise will reach a threshold where they are no longer able to destruct any more walls. The outer grids should also have doors built between every section to increase the amount of work the raider has to do.Ī raider can still bust into a stone room with C4, but they’ll have to break through all of the layers of honeycombed tier two walls before they can reach your storage room. I’d recommend at least three full layers of honeycomb around your central room to be safe (more is better). A layer of level one walls can be used on the outermost layer of your honeycomb. Honeycombing your base is basically starting off with a 3×3 stone room in the middle(larger would be optimal), with all of your valuable loot placed inside this room, and then creating a square grid of level 2 walls all around that room. 16 Fallout Shelter Tips for Vault Dwellers. A quick sketch to help you visualize the honeycomb defense layout. 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Reviews Associated products This bundle comes with a total of 63 high quality tokens and includes the following: 30 Coal 18 Iron (copper ingots that match game iconography) 15 Beer Barrels All tokens are finely crafted and come pre-painted. ![]() With so much to explore, Radlands gives the experience of a huge expandable card game, in a form factor that your gameshelf can actually handle. We have still never seen two matches play out the same way, and continue to discover new synergies and strategies that we've never seen before. It is extremely elegant from both a component and game design perspective, consisting of a deck of text minimal cards, and a short rulebook.īut do not let the game's level of elegance fool you, as Radlands provides one of the highest strategic depth to complexity ratios Team Roxley has ever experienced.Īfter 2 years of polishing, our development team is still completely addicted to the game. Note: Insert designed for the standard Retail game version with external box. The rules and boards act as a lid on top of the trays. All the trays can be utilised during the game, and they greatly aid set-up and clear-away times. The design provides both efficient storage and improved game play. Radlands is an intense dueling card game created by former Magic the Gathering External developer, Daniel Piechnick. Insert compatible with Brass: Birmingham or Brass: Lancashire, both Retail and Deluxe editions. ![]() At 47%, the oldest respondents constituted the largest share of respondents who “strongly agreed” that Bible reading played an important role in a child’s character development. Overall, nearly half of respondents (49%) agreed either “strongly” or “somewhat” that “Bible reading is an important component of a child’s character development,” while an additional 27% disagreed either “strongly” or “somewhat” with that analysis. A slightly higher share of Generation Z (39%), the youngest group of American adults, told pollsters that an absence of the Bible would make the U.S. “worse off.” Thirty-one percent of millennials subscribed to that belief. Millennials were the least likely group to see an absence of the Bible as making the U.S. A majority of baby boomers (57%) and a plurality of those in generation X (46%) also predicted that the U.S. would be “worse off” without the Bible, with 64% of the oldest Americans agreeing with that statement. In 2022, the elderly were the group most likely to believe that the U.S. would be “better off” without the Bible remained flat at 14% in both 20. The share of Americans who think the U.S. ![]() would be “worse off” without the Bible.įorty-one percent of respondents contended that the country would be “about the same” without the Bible, an increase from the 33% who said so in 2021. This is a noticeable decrease from last year, when 54% of those surveyed believed that the U.S. When asked “how do you think our country would be without the Bible,” specifically referring to a hypothetical scenario where “nobody read the Bible at all,” a plurality of respondents (45%) indicated that they thought the U.S. The overwhelming majority (78%) of those surveyed indicated that their Bible reading “stayed the same” over the past year, as 13% reported an increase in Bible reading and the remaining 10% saw a decrease in their Bible reading. The survey also inquired about respondents’ Bible reading habits. At the same time, the estimated number of Bible disengaged Americans rose from 100 million last year to 145 million this year. ![]() The State of the Bible report also demonstrates what the American Bible Society describes as a “major decrease in Scripture Engagement,” which is defined as “consistent interaction with the Bible that shapes people’s choices and transforms their relationships with God, self, and others.” The estimated number of Scripture-engaged Americans dropped from 64 million in 2021 to 49 million in 2022. A plurality (40%) of those surveyed never read the Bible on their own, while 12% read it less than once a year and 8% look at it once or twice a year. More than half (60%) of Americans use the Bible less than three to four times a year. adults use the Bible daily, while 4% use it four to six times a week, 7% consult it two to three times a week, 5% read the Bible once a week, and 7% read it once a month. The group labeled Bible users consisted of Americans who read the Bible outside of church as infrequently as three to four times a year to those who use the Bible daily. dropped from 128 million in 2021 to 103 million in 2022. population as a whole, the figure suggests that the number of Bible users in the U.S. The State of the Bible report described the 11% decrease as an “unprecedented drop in the percentage of Bible users in the United States.” When applied to the U.S. accounted for just 39% of the adult population, the lowest in more than a decade. However, in 2022, Bible users in the U.S. Just last year, 50% of Americans were Bible users. adult population consistently remained between 48% and 51%. The American Bible Society defines Bible users as “those who use the Bible at least 3-4 times each year on their own, outside of a church setting.”Īfter reaching a high of 53% in 2014, the share of Bible users among the U.S. The 12th annual report asked Americans a variety of questions about their Bible use and their thoughts on its role in society.Ī preface to the report also highlights changes in the percentage of Bible users in the U.S. The 2022 State of the Bible report, released Wednesday, based its findings on responses collected from a survey of 2,598 U.S. There has been an “unprecedented drop” in the number of Bible users in the United States since last year, according to a report released by the American Bible Society. Everybody’s excited that we’re in this position right now.”įlorida is in this position rather than facing elimination in Game 4 on Saturday thanks in large part to Tkachuk, who also set up Brandon Montour‘s goal that opened the scoring less than five minutes in. “I felt great – I feel great,” Tkachuk said. That absence felt like a long time ago in the aftermath of another big win he was largely responsible for. The 25-year-old said he knew he was coming back when he left the game, pulled by concussion spotters. He then provided the screen on Carter Verhaeghe‘s OT goal for a 3-2 victory that cut Florida’s series deficit to 2-1. ![]() ![]() Tkachuk scored the tying goal with 2:13 left in regulation, forcing overtime and giving the Panthers new life. After looking as if he might be lost for the night, Tkachuk returned in the second and then came through with more of his now trademark playoff heroics. The Florida Panthers star left early in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final after a big hit from Vegas Golden Knights forward Keegan Kolesar, and he missed most of the first period and didn’t return immediately following intermission while being evaluated for a concussion. Matthew Tkachuk was down, out briefly and then back with plenty of time to make a difference. Upon his retirement, Brunette spent seven seasons with the Wild in various off-ice roles, including assistant coach and assistant GM, before being hired by the Panthers as an assistant coach in 2019-2020. Brunette is one of 25 players selected in the seventh round or later to appear in more than 1,000 NHL games. He finished with 268 goals and 733 points in 1,110 career games split among six teams, including two separate stints in Minnesota. The Predators missed the playoffs for the first time in nine years, and the first under Hynes, who took over as coach during the 2019-20 season after Peter Laviolette was fired.īrunette, who is from Sudbury, Ontario, spent 16 seasons playing in the NHL, ending with a one-year stint with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2011-12. In Florida, Brunette coached a Panthers team that led the NHL with 337 goals and had the league’s fourth-best power-play unit. He will be great with our young players, and I know, because of his background as a player, he will connect well with our top, skilled players.” “He is as good of an offensive teacher and power-play coach as there is in the game today. “We want to become more of an offensive team and Andrew specializes on that side of the ice – he lived it as a player, and he coaches it as a coach, Trotz said. Trotz, meantime, has an eye on building on the Predators’ youth and offensively skilled players as he takes over as GM for David Poile, who is retiring at the end of June after 26 years overseeing the franchise. “It has been awesome to see how this city and its fanbase have grown since I played here and I look forward to continuing the legacy and the culture behind the bench that Barry cultivated that inaugural season.” “I feel like this is coming full circle for my career – from pulling on the jersey for the first time 25 years ago to returning now to take care of some unfinished business,” Brunette said in a statement. Their relationship goes back to 1993-94, when Brunette played under Trotz, who was head coach of the Washington Capitals’ American Hockey League affiliate in Portland, Maine. He becomes just the fourth coach in the history of a Predators franchise and returns to Nashville, where Brunette played for the Trotz-coached team during its inaugural season in 1998-99. Brunette finished second in the Jack Adams Award voting for the NHL’s coach of the year. He was promoted to interim coach of the Florida Panthers during the 2021-22 season and oversaw a team that set franchise records for wins (58) and points (122) in claiming the Presidents’ Trophy before being eliminated in the second round of the playoffs. The 49-year-old Brunette spent the past season as a New Jersey Devils associate coach under Lindy Ruff and has previous head-coaching experience. The moves are the first being made by incoming general manager Barry Trotz and come about six weeks after the Predators missed the playoffs. NASHVILLE, Tenn.– The coaching shuffle in Nashville is complete, with Andrew Brunette officially hired as the Predators coach a little over 12 hours after the team announced that John Hynes was fired. |
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