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  • Your Friends And Neighbors – ’17-’18 NHL Team Previews: Sky Of Blue, Sea Of Green, In Our Yellow Submarine AH HA!

    Your Friends And Neighbors – ’17-’18 NHL Team Previews: Sky Of Blue, Sea Of Green, In Our Yellow Submarine AH HA!

    Everyone’s darling. It’s always so much fun when the Canadian media “discovers” that hockey can be enjoyed somewhere else other than some main artery in Toronto or that one strip of bars in Calgary where everyone wears a jersey because they don’t actually own anything else. Of course, this also happened in 2012 when the Canucks played the Predators in the 2nd round and they were shocked to discover the Nashville fans had better and more fun traditions than, “two college kids ripping off a game from It’s Always Sunny,” and “waving a towel.”

    Whatever, the Nashville Predators made the most noise they ever have in the playoffs last year, and outplayed the Penguins for a good stretch of the Final. But in the same vein as, “didn’t, lawyer fucked me,” they went the, “if only Pekka Rinne was actually as good as we keep telling people he is” route for defeat excuse. Here’s the thing though: Pekka Rinne is still here. And he’s a year older.

    Nashville Predators

    ’16-’17 Record: 41-29-12  94 points (4th in Central, lost Final to PIT)

    Team Stats 5v5: 51.3 CF% (5th)  51.3 SF% (7th)  50.7 SCF% (14th)  7.8 SH% (13th)  .926 SV% (9th)

    Special Teams: 18.9 PP% (16th)  80.9 PK% (15th)

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  • Aloha – Game 1 – Predators vs Hawks Preview, Instant Re-Finance

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    Game Time: 7:00PM CDT
    TV/Radio: CSN, NBCSN (US), TVA-S2 (Canada), WGN-AM 720
    Golden Showers: On The Forecheck

    The long national nightmare is over, The Chicago Blackhawks are once again playing hockey games that matter. And they’re doing so from their most advantageous position in four years, with home ice for as long as they remain in the Western Conference playoffs. For those counting at home, under Joel Quenneville the Hawks are 11-1 in series wherein they have home ice, the lone outlier being the 2014 Western Conference Final, which took to Game 7 in OT to end. That also remains the only series that the Hawks have ended up losing wherein they have taken Game 1. The road is laid out for them, and the first step is tonight on West Madison against the Nashville Predators.

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  • Turn To Gold – The Nashville Predators’ Forwards

    Turn To Gold – The Nashville Predators’ Forwards

    Continuing this Tradition Unlike Any Other, our positional preview of the Nashville Predators now moves to their group of forwards, and based on some of the reports coming in out of the Preds’ morning skates, they’re seriously up against it.

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  • The Sound Of My Ceiling Fan – Hawks at Predators Preview, Secret Menu Order

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    Game Time: 7:00PM CST
    TV/Radio: CSN, WGN-AM 720
    Get The Red Out: On The Forecheck

    In what is looking more and more to be the case as games tick off the schedule, this will be the last meeting between the Hawks and Predators until Game 1 of the Western Conference Playoffs. And with both teams apparently locked into their respective positions within the division, tonight in Nashville and here on out remain about getting healthy and tightening up play more than about results.

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  • Bamboo Curtain – Predators vs Hawks Preview, Fridge Cleanout

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    Game Time: 6:00PM CST
    TV/Radio: WGN Ch. 9, WGN-AM 720
    Mike Ribeiro Is A Sex Criminal: On The Forecheck

    It seems like every single year the Hawks manage to have played more games than anyone in the first half of the season, with the entire rest of their division having games in hand up until the final week of the season. This year is no different, and what better way to pile on than with three games in four nights, all at home.

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  • Preds Spotlight: RyJo Sen

    Preds Spotlight: RyJo Sen

    The Predators came into this season perhaps the most watched team in the West, if not the whole league. For the first time, it really appeared they could be one of the last four, or two, or even last team standing. They had a deep forward corps, though perhaps lacking star power. They had one of the deepest blue lines around, made only better by swapping out Shea Weber for He Who Should Be President Of The World. There were certainly questions about the goaltending, as Pekka Rinne has fallen off elite status. If it all went balls-up, that’s where it was most likely the arrows of blame (a great My Bloody Valentine album) would be pointed.

    It hasn’t worked out that way, and it hasn’t worked out the way the Predators and their fans would have hoped either.

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  • Get Stimulated – Predators vs Hawks Preview, Vehicle Inspection

    predator vs evil empire

    Game Time: 7:00PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, NBCSN, SportsNet East, WGN-AM 720
    Napalm The University of Tennesee Athletic Department: On The Forecheck

    Tonight’s game will conclude the season series between the Hawks and Preds. And while the Hawks have already won the season series outright(3-1-0), the Predators have exposed some of the flaws in the composition of the Hawks’ roster in the process. And they’ll catch the Preds during their most productive streak of the season, having taken points in 7 straight games, and winning four straight games on the road, and eight of their last nine.

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  • The Sound Of My Ceiling Fan – Predators vs Hawks Preview, License Renewal

    predator vs evil empire

    Game Time: 7:30PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, WGN-AM720
    Still Waiting For ALL THE FACTS on Mike Ribeiro: On The Forecheck

    In between games with the Jets bookending this week, the Hawks get a home-and-home with the typically competent Predators, starting tonight on United Center ice.

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  • Morning Links 4.24.2015

    Ruh-Roh:HockeeNight

    Welcome to my nightmare:Lets Go Hawks

    7 PM on Saturday:Blackhawk Up

    Steeg in a nutshell:Second City Hockey

    Time to regroup:CSN

    No Fairytale:Daily Herald

  • The Best Bad Idea We Have – Nashville Predators Forwards Preview

    The Best Bad Idea We Have – Nashville Predators Forwards Preview

    Moving outward from Nashville’s formidable back end, it’s now time to take a look at their reimagined forward group, which boast more speed and skill than it ever did under Barry Trotz. And under Peter Laviolette, that speed is now finally afforded a bit of offensive creativity as opposed to simply using it for the purposes of constricting the opposition.

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