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Video- Bad Goal Of The Night
by Paul on 11/24/11 at 12:08 AM ET
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Pekka Rinne gives up the eventual game winner to Cal Clutterbuck.
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Nashville Extends Rinne
by Paul on 11/03/11 at 12:28 PM ET
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Nashville, Tenn. (November 3, 2011) – Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that the club has signed goaltender Pekka Rinne to a seven-year, $49 million contract – the largest in franchise history.
“Today’s signing is further evidence of our ownership’s commitment to keeping our core intact,” Poile said. “This is the first step of a process designed to retain our key players and leaders. Pekka has grown with our franchise, just recently established our franchise record for career shutouts and is now recognized as one of the game’s elite players. We’re thrilled to know that he will be backstopping our franchise for several years to come.”
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The Case for Number One in Goal
by Ian Gooding on 08/22/11 at 08:00 AM ET
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Determining a first overall pick in this year’s fantasy hockey drafts is anything but easy, but we probably know this much: the first overall pick won’t be a goalie. Yet a goalie is an important investment to fantasy hockey teams, since only two goalies can be responsible for four out of a team’s ten stat categories in many fantasy hockey leagues. The need for solid goaltending explains why many starting goalies can fly off the board early in fantasy hockey drafts.
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Video- Rinne On Omark’s Latest Shootout Winner
by Paul on 03/02/11 at 09:25 AM ET
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from Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal,
“He comes with a lot of speed and makes you back off, but I don’t think he did anything special,” said Rinne after the Predators’ record fell to 6-4 in shootouts. “He made a nice move, but I thought he fanned on the shot. He was trying to go upstairs and fanned on it and I was leaning a little bit.”
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Video- Stick Save
by Paul on 01/24/11 at 04:40 AM ET
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Predators’ Lidback Stepping in Nicely for Injured Rinne
by Patrick Hoffman on 12/10/10 at 08:05 PM ET
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from John Manasso at NHL.com:
A few years ago, Nashville coach Barry Trotz and the team’s celebrated goaltending coach, Mitch Korn, were watching one of the organization’s prospect camps. In goal stood 2008 seventh-round draft pick Anders Lindback.
“We looked at each other and said, ‘He looks just like Pekka,’” Trotz said, comparing Lindback to the team’s current No. 1 goalie, Pekka Rinne. “‘He moves just looks like Pekka.’ It was funny because we looked at each other and we just started chuckling because we were both thinking the same thing.”
Since Lindback, 22, seemingly came out of nowhere to land the Predators’ back-up job—and, for the time being, the No. 1 job with Rinne out for a few weeks with a left knee injury—the comparisons to Rinne are hard to shake.
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Report- Rinne Out Up To A Month With A Knee Injury
by Paul on 12/03/10 at 03:52 PM ET
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via Bryan Mullen tweet,
Rinne out 2-4 weeks with left knee injury, per a Predators official.
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Bad Goal Of The Night
by Paul on 04/26/10 at 10:05 PM ET
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Pekka Rinne goes out to play the puck on a shoot-in, but….
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Predators Re-Sign Pekka Rinne
by Paul on 02/24/10 at 02:33 PM ET
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via John Glennon of the Tennessean,
The Predators have re-signed goalie Pekka Rinne to a two-year, $6.8 million contract.
The team is expected to officially announce the signing later this afternoon.
Rinne will make $2.8 million during the 2010-11 season and $4.0 million during the 2011-12 season.
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Two Goalies In The Calder Race
by Paul on 03/12/09 at 01:00 PM ET
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from Dan Pollard of TSN,
Nashville’s Pekka Rinne is giving the Blue Jackets’ Steve Mason a run for top rookie honours. Both have helped put their teams in a position to make the playoffs this year. For Columbus it would be the franchises maiden voyage into the post-season.
There’s not much to choose from when comparing the goaltenders numbers wise.
Other than shutouts, Rinne’s numbers are better or almost identical to Masons.That being said, when forced to make a choice my support leans to Mason.
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Backing Up Nashville
by Alanah McGinley on 07/28/08 at 05:55 PM ET
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Neil Bristow at Hockey Prime Time has an interview with Nashville Predators’ goalie Pekka Rinne online which he was good enough to mention to me today. Rinne is set to back up Dan Ellis this coming season (which didn’t impress Brian Costello at THN very much yesterday) so maybe now’s a good time to get to know the guy better.
From Hockey Prime Time:
Neil Bristow - You made your NHL debut Dec.15th 2005. Can you share with us a little of what that was like? What was going through your mind at that time?
Pekka Rinne - It was something that I had always been dreaming of. At that time both Tomas Vokoun and Chris Mason were hurt and I got the call. Everything happened pretty fast and I didn`t have time to stress about the game, we won the game and it was just amazing experience I’ll remember for rest of my life.
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