The Nashville Predators have added veteran center Alex Kerfoot on a two-year contract worth $3.5 million per year, according to Darren Dreger.
Kerfoot arrives in Nashville after spending the past two seasons with the Utah Hockey Club/Utah Mammoth, following the franchise from Arizona after he played one year of a two-year deal he had signed with the Arizona Coyotes. Last season was a shortened one for the 31-year-old left shot. He was limited to 34 games after undergoing a procedure in October to repair a core-muscle injury, but once he returned he chipped in seven goals and six assists for 13 points while wearing an alternate captain’s letter.
The Predators are betting on the player who has been a steady middle-six contributor for much of his career. Across 639 career games with Utah, the Coyotes, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Colorado Avalanche, Kerfoot has produced 105 goals and 200 assists for 305 points. He also has 19 points in 54 career playoff games, including six goals and 13 assists.
His top offensive season came in 2021-22 with Toronto, when he put up 51 points, including 13 goals and 38 assists, in 82 games. Kerfoot was originally selected by the New Jersey Devils in the fifth round, 150th overall, of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, though he never played a game for the franchise.
A scouting report from Sports Forecaster describes Kerfoot as a player with “sound skills in all three zones, a good hockey IQ and the versatility to play anywhere up front (and in all game situations),” adding that “His playmaking skills are solid, and he is enough of a shooter that opponents cannot lay off of him and jam the passing lanes.”
At 5-foot-10, Kerfoot does not bring much size, but Nashville is clearly valuing the versatility and experience. He joins a Predators team that has missed the playoffs the past two seasons and has not gotten past the first round since 2017-18. Even so, the club improved by 18 points last season compared with 2024-25 and still has $11 million in cap space to keep building, per PuckPedia.
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