Los Angeles Kings (38-20-4) at Nashville Predators (34-23-5), 8 p.m. – Sacramento Bee
The Los Angeles Kings have been on a roll over the past month and a half. They hope that will be enough to help them end their losing streak to the Nashville Predators. Los Angeles will try to break a five-game slide to Nashville tonight in a meeting …
Nashville Predators secure win with defense – Nashville Tennessean
ATLANTA — Special teams and goaltending are two areas that have not always provided highlights for the Predators this season. But with the team in danger of falling out of playoff position because of two straight losses, Nashvilles netminder and …
Canucks beat Nashville Predators 4-2 – Vancouver Sun
NASHVILLE — It was the third period in number, but period number one in their hearts. The Vancouver Canucks rallied again Sunday in the final 20 minutes to beat the Nashville Predators 4-2 and improve to 3-1 on their six-game National Hockey League …
Resolved Question: I do not understand the Predators’ decision to resign Pekka Rinne?
The Nashville Predators recently resigned Pekka Rinne to a two-year contract worth $6.8 million, paying him $2.8 million next season and $4 million the year after that. That makes it unlikely that Dan Ellis will be resigned in the offseason. Here are their to-date stats: Rinne: 22-12-4, 2.79 GAA, .901 save %, 3 SO Ellis: 13-11-1, 2.59 GAA, .913 save %, 1 SO Interestingly, just as Rinne’s performance was declining (.893 save percentage and a 2.96 GAA with one shutout in his last ten starts), he’s been getting more playing time and was resigned over the Olympic break. There’s also not much of an age difference: Rinne is 27 and Ellis is 29. So two questions: 1. Why did the Nashville Predators resign him over Ellis when it does not make sense on the basis of merits? 2. Is Rinne’s new contract overpaying him? I also might have some bias against Rinne: in one of the games I went to, he was pulled after giving up three first-period goals.
