Written by Dan Greene This year’s competition for the coveted Vezina Trophy, given to the NHL’s top goaltender during the regular season, is as tight and fierce as ever. Two of the finalists, Tim Thomas and Roberto Luongo, have been nominated previously and Thomas has already won the trophy. Also, both of these elite goaltenders
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Assault steeled Nashville Predator’s Pekka Rinne for NHL success
The words sound so strange when they come out of Pekka Rinne’s mouth. “Pepper spray,” the Nashville Predators goaltender says with a slight cringe and shakes his head. And at that moment, the fear from the summer of 2006 comes back to Rinne. He was the victim of an assault by a pizzeria owner in
Pekka Rinne, from NashVegas to Las Vegas
Next week we have the NHL Awards in Las Vegas, with local hockey player Dierks Bentley providing the entertainment (sorry Buddy, no Chaka Khan for you this year), and the Nashville Predators will be front & center with nominees in several major categories. One of those, of course, is Pekka Rinne, and yesterday he held
Pete Weber names Pekka Rinne one of the 3 stars of the Western Conference half of the playoffs
With the Vancouver Canucks advancing to the Stanley Cup Finals from the Western Conference and the Boston/Tampa Bay series moving to a Game 7 in the Eastern Conference, NashvillePredators.com got in touch with Preds broadcaster Pete Weber for his thoughts on conference finals series. NashvillePredators.com: What surprised you the most from the Vancouver/San Jose series?
The #7 Moment of the 2010-11 Nashville Predators’ Regular Season: Pekka Rinne stones Tom Gilbert
In a breakout season like the one Pekka Rinne just completed, there were any number of instances where he put the Predators on his back and carried them to victory, but none was more spectacular, nor critical, than late in the March 22 game against Edmonton. With the Preds needing every possible point in the
Vezina Candidate Pekka Rinne Talks Playoffs, Country Music, and Facebook with Yahoo! Sports’ Dmitri Chesnokov
For the first time in franchise history, the Nashville Predators made the Stanley Cup Playoff semifinals before losing to the Vancouver Canucks. In that series, as he had been during the regular season, goalie Pekka Rinne was their MVP, giving the kind of performances that have earned him a trip to Las Vegas as a
Pekka Rinne Speaks with the Media After Returning from Vancouver
Predators’ goalie Pekka Rinne speaks on the tarmac at the Nashville Airport after returning from their 4-3 win in game five in Vancouver on Saturday night. <object width=”450″ height=”367″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/w59oR3DNb_0?fs=1&hl=en_US”></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/w59oR3DNb_0?fs=1&hl=en_US” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”450″ height=”367″ allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true”></embed></object>
Rinne understands significance of Saturday’s win
Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne has been around the organization long enough to know what is a signature moment in franchise history. He knew going into Rogers Arena on Saturday that Game 5 against the Canucks was a big one because it was the first time in Predators’ history that they were facing elimination in
Nashville’s Rinne Leaving His Mark On The Second Round
The individual standout performances in the Stanley Cup Playoffs have only just begun. It’s still too soon to tell if the four conference semifinals currently going on will extend quite as long as the majority of the first-round series did, but there have already been a handful of dramatic moments and the potential exists for
Vezina Candidate Pekka Rinne Dominate In 2-1 Victory Over Canucks
After Pekka Rinne made several spectacular saves in the extra periods, Nick Spaling took Suter’s entry pass and fed the puck cross-ice to Halischuk. He quickly snapped a shot over a sprawling defender and the glove of Luongo, giving the Predators the win that got them back into the first second-round series in team history.