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NHL Power Rankings: A Scout's Take on Unsung Stars

For our first Power Rankings of the NHL season, our Christopher Botta talked to a pro scout for an Eastern Conference team. Botta asked the scout one question. Who is the one player on each team that you believe deserves more press for his contributions to his club this season? Obviously, we weren't looking to hear...

NHL Notebook: Lose the Shootout, Not CHL 9-Game Clause; Best Goaltenders

The Shootout is Dead They decided another hockey game with a one-on-one skills competition in Calgary on Tuesday, and it was the perfect illustration of why NHL general managers devalued the shootout in the offseason. The Oilers-Flames game was also the latest example of why the shootout has to go soon. Down 4-1 to their...

Miikka Kiprusoff Wins Battle of Goaltenders, Robs Martin Erat

Calgary's Miikka Kiprusoff and Nashville's Pekka Rinne put on a goaltending clinic on Tuesday night during the Flames 1-0 overtime win, keeping the scoreboard blank until Rene Bourque finally managed to find the back of the net at the 2:10 mark of the overtime period. Both goaltenders made 34 saves through 60 minutes of...

NHL Blogger Survey: Know Your Nashville Predators

Want to know more about each NHL team? Welcome to the NHL Blogger Survey. During the season, NHL FanHouse will reach out to some of the top team (but not team-paid) bloggers in an effort to provide an up-close view. Today's participant is Buddy Oakes of the Nashville Predators' blog, Preds on the Glass. PredsOnTheGlass...

Dan Hamhuis Talks About Nashville's Strong Defensive Play

The most desirable piece of ice for a team on the attack in the offensive zone is the area directly between the face-off dots and in front of the net. It's the area every team wants to penetrate, and it's where most goals in the NHL -- and all levels of hockey, for that matter -- are scored from. One of the best teams in...

PEkka rinne News From the Web

05/29/12 NHL '13 cover vote between Claude Giroux, Pekka Rinne Source: Sporting News While not quite the spectacle that the annual Madden cover vote has become, the vote for the cover of EA Sports' NHL '13 is under way.
05/29/12 New York Islanders: End of the Line for John Tavares Source: 1010 Wins John Tavares 's campaign to reign supreme as a NHL 13 cover finalist came to a screeching halt Tuesday morning.
05/24/12 #NHL NHL 13 cover final 4: Claude Giroux, Evgeni... Source: LetsGoKings.com The EA Sports NHL 13 cover campaign is quickly winding down and after a month of voting we're down to the final four players.
05/21/12 Mayor encourages reading with 'Share a Book' campaign Source: ABC - WKRN News 2 - Nashville TN Nashville Predators' goalie Pekka Rinne joined Nashville Mayor Karl Dean and Nashville Sounds mascot Ozzie at the downtown public library Saturday to kick off the "Share a Book" campaign.
05/16/12 Preds in review: Pekka Rinne Source: Tennessean.com - Nashville TN To say Pekka Rinne had a career-year would be both true and false.

Background on PEkka rinne

Pekka Rinne (born November 3, 1982) is a Finnish professional hockey goaltender who plays for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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