Duncan Keith talks about the Blackhawks clinching a playoff berth and their 5-3 win over the Nashville Predators.
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Nashville
And then there were two.
More than 23 million hockey fans have cast ballots on NHL.com for their favorite player over the last two months, and now the winner of the cover for EA Sports’ NHL 13 will come down to Philadelphia Flyers forward Claude Giroux and Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne.
The winner will be revealed at the NHL Awards, June 20 in Las Vegas. Until then, you have until June 4 at 11:59 p.m. to get your final vote in.
Vote here to help determine the winner of the NHL 13 cover!
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The Nashville Predators came out and played an extremely desperate sixty minutes of hockey but couldn’t solve Mike Smith until It was too late.
The Nashville Predators came into Game 5 with all of the chips in, a loss meant the end of a season that most would recognize as their most successful season but a major disappointment for a team that seemed poised for a cup run. The Predators came out early and were buzzing all around the Coyotes net. Predators forward Patric Hornqvist had a number of great chances and was definitely being a pest for the Coyotes. Despite all of the chances the Predators couldn’t solve Coyote goalie Mike Smith and the first period ended scoreless.
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Goals are hard to come by these days for the Nashville Predators. If they don’t find a way to score some soon they will see what was intended to be the Predators deepest team in franchise history stumble in the 2nd Round of the Stanley cup playoffs.
All of the credit in the world should be given to Mike Smith and the Phoenix Coyotes. They have had better goaltending,way better defense and are putting the puck in the net. To go further Mike Smith is red hot as he hasn’t gave up a goal in over five periods of hockey.
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Nashville Predators forwards Alexander Radulov and Andrei Kostitsyn are ruled out for Game 3 in Nashville Wednesday for violating team rules. Radulov and Kostitsyn violated the team’s curfew prior to Game #2 against the Coyotes and will watch this one off the ice.
GM David Poile made big risks bringing in both of these players at the trade deadline(Kostitsyn) and later in the season (Radulov) but saw them as moves the team had to make to move “All In” for the cup this year. Kostitsyn had a troubled past in Montreal and the inmaturity is showing with the poor decisions made by him on Saturday.
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The first round of the 2013 NHL Playoffs showcased a Nashville club that featured stingy defense, top-notch goal-tending and just enough offense to get by a very good Detroit team. So far in the second round, all three of those factors haven’t existed.
Give all of the credit in the world to the Phoenix Coyotes. I truly feel that Nashville fell asleep on the Coyotes early on and am paying for it heading into Game 3 in Nashville on Wednesday.
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Have you ever heard the saying when it rains it pours? Well, if you’re a Nashville Predators fan you better grab your umbrella!
After coming off what is probably their poorest defensive showing all season in Sunday night’s 5-3 loss to Phoenix, the Preds were handed some more bleak news. Forwards Alexander Radulov and Andrei Kostitsyn were suspended for Game 3 for what has been said to be a curfew violation. Very few details have been given out by the Predators organization but it seems that the two were spotted in Scottsdale (45 minutes away from Glendale, where the team and arena were located) Saturday night after midnight.
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For the better part of the last two decades, the road to the Stanley Cup often when through Hockeytown. However, in 2012, the Detroit Red Wings will remembered as the first team to officially be eliminated from postseason play.
Once again on the strength of solid play from goaltending sensation Pekka Rinne, the Wings were held to just one goal for the second straight game. David Legwand, coincidentally, a Detroit native and a member of the Predators‘ organization for each of its 13 seasons, scored the game-winner 13 seconds into the third period to seal the deal for the Preds and eliminate with the Wings in Game 5 of their Western Conference quarterfinal series with a 2-1 victory.
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Hockeytown is still bitter over the Shea Weber incident and even more so now that he’s scored the first power play goal of the series for the Nashville Predators. I don’t necessarily want to go as far as to say that this is a must win for the Red Wings tonight, but if they’re wanting to at least see a game 6 in Detroit then it certainly is indeed.
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Detroit Red Wings fans, look away.
For the few that missed it last night, Nashville Predators defenseman Shea Weber rammed Detroit forward Henrik Zetterberg’s head right into the glass in the waning moments of Game 1 of the teams’ Western Conference quarterfinal.
Fortunately for the Wings, Zetterberg is OK and did not suffer an injury on the play.
“This was a reckless and reactionary play on which Weber threw a glancing punch and then shoved Zetterberg’s head into the glass,” NHL Disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan said in a statement. “As is customary whenever supplemental discipline is being considered, we contacted Detroit following the game and were informed that Zetterberg did not suffer an apparent injury and should be in the lineup for Game 2.”
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