Greg Zanon was drafted by the Ottawa Senators in 2000, but he was not signed by the team and instead grew his skills with Nebraska-Omaha in the NCAA.  

Zanon signed with the Nashville Predators as a Free Agent in 2004 and made their roster two years later.  A lockdown Defenseman, Zanon only scored 26 Points over his 230 Games in Nashville, but he was a known shot-blocker, and would have a Plus/Minus of +19, a good number for a team that was not good at the time.

Zanon left the Predators as a Free Agent when he signed with Minnesota in 2009.

From Switzerland, Kevin Fiala became one of the country’s few First Round picks when Nashville selected him 11^thOverall in 2014.

Fiala made it to the Predators for six Games in his first two years in North American hockey, and the Left Wing would remain as an NHL player in 2016/17.  Fiala had a coming-out year, scoring 48 points, but was traded to Minnesota at the 2019 Trading Deadline.

As a Predator, Fiala accrued 97 Points in 204 Games.

After three years with the Los Angeles Kings, Vitali Yachmenev was traded to the Nashville Predators, the team he finished his NHL career with.

Yachmenev was an original Predator, joining them in their expansion year, though he never reached the 53-Point year he did as an NHL rookie with Los Angeles.  Nevertheless, the Russian Left Wing did score 130 Points for the Predators before returning home to play in the KHL. 

It was an incredible feat for Karlis Skrastins to make the Predators roster in 1998, albeit for only two games. A player drafted in the Ninth Round is not often expected to make the NHL, let alone in the year they were drafted.

The Russian Defenseman would become a stalwart on the blueline, establishing himself as one of Nashville's better shot blockers and traditional defensemen.  He played for the Predators for four seasons, totaling 54 Points.  Skrastins departed Nashville in the 2003 off-season when he was traded to Colorado.

Skrastins tragically died as one of the many people who perished in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash in 2011.