Who is favoured, Detroit Red Wings or Nashville Predators?

Nashville Predators, at 55.2% in PuckCast's preseason forecast. That is a rating-based forecast; the full model read, with goalies, rest and form, publishes within seven days of puck drop.

What is a preseason forecast?

A win probability from each team's regressed preseason rating and home ice, the same ratings behind the 2026-27 projected standings. Those ratings are calibrated at the season level, for standings and playoff odds; this single-game percentage is a plain rating formula and has not been graded on its own yet. It is deliberately unsure about any single game, and the confidence grade says how far it leans.

When does the real prediction publish?

Inside the seven-day window before the game. The model re-scores it on every refresh until puck drop, with the confirmed starting goalies, and this page shows that read instead of the forecast.

Detroit Red Wings at Nashville Predators, Sat, Dec 26: prediction and odds forecast

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2026-27 forecast · Sat, Dec 26, 7:00 PM ET

Detroit Red WingsDET

92 proj. pts · 38.1% playoffs

John Gibson · 0.901 SV%

Bvs7:00 PM ET

Nashville PredatorsNSH

A preseason forecast from each team's regressed rating and home ice, the ratings behind the projected standings. The full model read, with the starting goalies, rest and form, publishes within seven days of the game and replaces this page’s numbers. How the model works

The read

Preseason ratings · last season’s record

at 5v5 last season the two were level on expected goals (47.7% to 48.4%); NSH's power play ran at 23.1% against a DET kill at 77.1%.

In goal, neither team has named a starter. Last season John Gibson (DET) saved -12.5 goals above expected to Juuse Saros's -28.0, on save percentages of 0.901 and 0.894.

None of that is the model read. This is a rating-and-home-ice forecast; the full prediction — confirmed goalies, rest and form, priced against the market — publishes inside the seven days before puck drop and replaces these numbers. Nashville Predators over Detroit Red Wings is where it starts, not where it ends.

In goal

goalie board

No starter is named this far out. These are each side’s projected starters on the current roster, with last season’s numbers.

DET

John Gibson

SV%: 0.901
GSAx: -12.5
GAA: 2.72
Record: 29-22-4

57 games, 2025-26

NSH

Juuse Saros

SV%: 0.894
GSAx: -28.0
GAA: 3.16
Record: 28-22-8

59 games, 2025-26

DET	Metric	NSH
48.4%	xGF% (5v5)	47.7%
50.4%	Shot share	48.5%
2.9	Goals for / game	3.0
3.1	Goals against / game	3.3
22.6%	Power play	23.1%
77.1%	Penalty kill	81.7%
51.0%	Faceoffs	50.5%

Who drives it

2026-27 projected points

Detroit Red Wings

Player	Pos	G	A	Pts
Lucas Raymond	L	29	52	81
Alex DeBrincat	R	35	39	74
Dylan Larkin	C	28	35	63
Moritz Seider	D	9	43	52

Nashville Predators

Player	Pos	G	A	Pts
Filip Forsberg	L	32	36	67

Date	Game	Pick	Score	Result
2026-03-02	DET @ NSH	DET	DET 4–2 NSH	Correct
2025-11-26	NSH @ DET	DET	NSH 6–3 DET	Missed

Team	Proj. points	Playoff odds
Detroit Red Wings	92	38.1%
Nashville Predators	93	47.6%

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The read

In goal

Last season, side by side

Who drives it

Schedule around it

Last season, head to head

Season outlook