After close to four years since his last NHL game, former first-round draft pick Jarred Tinordi is getting another shot in the big league. Tinordi has been recalled by the Nashville Predators from the AHL and head coach Peter Laviolette says he will draw into the lineup soon.
Tinordi was drafted 22nd overall by the Montreal Canadiens 2010. At six-foot-six and 230 lbs, it was felt he could be a bruising presence on the blueline. Unfortunately for Tinordi, the game got faster and he didn't. After four seasons with the club, mostly in the AHL, he was traded to the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for Victor Bartley and John Scott in January of 2016. In March of the same year, he was suspended for 20 games, without pay, for violating the terms of the NHL/NHLPA Performance Enhancing Substances Program. Tinordi denied knowingly taking any banned substances but accepted the suspension. It was just before that ban that he would play his last game in the NHL. Early the next season, Arizona placed him on waivers and he was sent to Tuscon of the AHL.
In 2017-18, he signed a two-way contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins and spent the whole year with the AHL's Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. In the offseason, he signed a one year, two-way deal with Nashville, again spending the entire year in the AHL with the Milwaukee Admirals. He was named captain of the team prior to the start of the season. Before the current season began, Tinordi signed a two year, two-way extension with Nashville and it looks like the 27-year-old is finally getting his shot.
Tinordi's father, Mark, was a defenseman who played for four NHL teams, and was the captain of the Minnesota North Stars when they moved to Dallas to become the Dallas Stars.
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