Matt Duchene becomes highest-scoring Nashville Predators forward in more than a decade

For the first time since 2008, a Nashville Predators forward has amassed more than 65 points in a season.

It’s all thanks to Matt Duchene, who hit the mark Monday night with a three-point performance against the Anaheim Ducks.

The 5-foot-11, 195-pound forward hit the 65-plus point mark for the first time since J.P. Dumont put up 65 points in the 2008-09 season. A few other Preds forwards had previously come close.

Three times players had hit the 64-point mark since Dumont. In 2015-16, Filip Forsberg had 33 goals and 64 points in 82 games, while he hit that point total again in 2017-18. In 2018-19, it was Ryan Johansen who hit 64 points.

While Duchene has hit the number, Forsberg is also just two points away from getting past the elusive 64-point mark.

But something else incredible is happening in Nashville. Defenseman Roman Josi is just 23 points away from hitting the 100-point mark.

If he does it, he would join some elite company. Only five defensemen have ever reached 100 points in a season: Bobby Orr (six times), Paul Coffey (five), Al MacInnis (one), Brian Leetch (one), and Denis Potvin (one).

Most notably, however, Josi, 31, would become the oldest defenseman to ever hit the 100-point mark. At their oldest, Orr was 26 and Coffey was 28 hitting the milestone. MacInnis was 27, Leetch was 21 and Potvin was 25.

There’s something special going on in Nashville this year, to say the least.