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Two Goalies In The Calder Race

by Paul on 03/12/09 at 02:00 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 06:55 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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