"Channeling Danny" - St. Valentine's Day - Nashville vs. Boston
 

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("Daniel Boone killed a bear, 1817.")

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About Nashville
Last Game: Nashville 4 vs. St. Louis 3 (SO)
Last Ten Games: 6-4-0
Home Record: 15-10-1
OT/Shootout Record: 6-3
Win/Loss Streak: WON 1
Goals For: 135
Goals Against: 156
Power Play: 13.9%, 28th
Home Power Play: 14.6%, 26th
Penalty Kill: 84.5%, 5th
Home Penalty Kill: 87.3%, 2nd

Nashville Team Leaders
Goals: Jason Arnott, 21
Assists: Jean-Pierre Dumont, 28
Points: Dumont, 39 (11g+28a)
Power Play Goals: Arnott/Shea Weber, 6
Power Play Scoring: Dumont, 13 (2g+11a)
Short-Handed Goals: David Legwand, 2
Short-Handed Scoring: Legwand, 3 (2g+1a)
Shots: Weber, 171
Shooting Percentage: Martin Erat, 14.0%
Plus-Minus: Weber, +4
Penalty Minutes: Jordin Tootoo, 90
Hits: Weber, 125
Blocked Shots: Greg Zanon, 164
Giveaways: Dumont, 38
Takeaways: Hamhuis, 38
Turnover Differential: Joel Ward, +24
Faceoffs Won: Arnott, 367-360
Faceoff Percentage: Radek Bonk, 61.4%
Time On Ice: 23:50
Wins: Pekka Rinne, 15-9-0
Minutes Played: Dan Ellis, 1784
Goals Against Average: Rinne, 2.35
Save Percentage: Rinne, .919
Shutouts: Rinne, 4

Nashville Fun Fact: Three of the last five goals surrendered by the Predators' penalty kill have been while two men down. The Predators have given up the most 3v5 goals in the NHL (10), but the fewest 4v5 goals (27).

Nashville Reason to Worry: The Bruins have not lost four straight tilts this season, and have lost their last three coming into tonight's game.

Nashville Injury Report
Radek Bonk (Upper Body, Status Unknown)
Pekka Rinne (Shell Shock, Probable)
Jordin Tootoo (Hand, Questionable)
Alexander Sulzer (Upper Body, Doubtful)
Scott Nichol (Concussion, Out)

Nashville Projected Lineup
Sullivan-Arnott-Dumont
Jones-Legwand-Erat
Ward-Smithson-Hörnqvist
Pihlström-Fiddler-Belak

Weber-Suter
Hamhuis-Zanon
De Vries-Klein

Rinne


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About Boston
Last Game: New Jersey 1 vs. Boston 0
Last Ten Games: 6-2-2
Away Record: 20-6-3
OT/Shootout Record:
Win/Loss Streak: LOST 3
Goals For: 190
Goals Against: 127
Power Play: 22.6%, 5th
Away Power Play: 16.7%, 22nd
Penalty Kill: 82.2%, 11th
Away Penalty Kill: 84.3%, 7th

Boston Team Leaders
Goals: Phil Kessel, 24
Assists: Marc Savard, 42
Points: Savard, 63 (21g+42a)
Power Play Goals: Three Tied at 7
Power Play Scoring: Wideman, 21 (5g+16a)
Short-Handed Goals: Three Tied at 1
Short-Handed Scoring: Savard (0g+2a), David Krejci (1g+1a)
Shots: Savard, 155
Shooting Percentage: Milan Lucic, 20.0%
Plus-Minus: Blake Wheeler, 32
Penalty Minutes: Shawn Thornton, 98
Hits: Chara, 122
Blocked Shots: Dennis Wideman, 86
Giveaways: Wideman, 49
Takeaways: Savard, 36
Turnover Differential: Thornton, +13
Faceoffs Won: Savard, 444-442
Faceoff Percentage: Patrice Bergeron, 54.6%
Time On Ice: Zdeno Chara, 26:38
Wins: Tim Thomas, 24-7-5
Minutes Played: Thomas 2176
Goals Against Average: Thomas, 2.12
Save Percentage: Thomas, .931
Shutouts: Thomas, 3

Boston Fun Fact: Zdeno Chara once stumbled over a rock that was jutting out of the ground and scraped his leg. He later realized that this rock was Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Boston Reason to Worry: The Bruins have gone just 2-for-31 on the power play in their last 8 games. (Could be because Stephane Yelle is seeing power play time.)

Boston Injury Report
Chuck Kobasew (Leg, Questionable)
Petteri Nokelainen (Eye, Out)
Michael Ryder (Nose, Out)
Marco Sturm (Knee, Out)

Boston Projected Lineup
Lucic-Savard-Kessel
Sobotka-Krejci-Wheeler
Axelsson-Bergeron-Karsums
Thornton-Yelle-Bitz

Chara-Wideman
Ward-Ference
Stuart-Hnidy

Fernandez

They're going to kick our collective *****

good luck, the B's haven't been playing their best, lately. They haven't been finishing so if Rinne is hot, the B's could be in trouble. I think it will be a tight game, prolly a 3-2 victory for one of the teams. Manny Fernandez hasn't played much lately has he's been having injuries/relagated to being a backup. He looked OK against the Flyers last Saturday, but slow.

I look forward to seeing Sully skate all over the ice!

I can't believe I'm going to miss this game. :(

nice giveaway Suter ... ****

Good game, I really wish they played the last two on tv though, I missed most of both games, but I'm happy that Legwand got a "hattrick"

wow! thats all I can say. I thought we were gonna lose by at least 4!

Wow, well I didn't see this one coming. Thought we played really well except our PP:shakehead and when they pulled their goalie lol, but since they are eastern I don't care we gave them a point:p: Rinne made some HUGE saves last night, Leggy was outstanding. I hope we keep Ward he's impressed me with his overall play.

Hard to believe we are only 3 out of the 8th spot with as little as we score...

it was grand to see Sully back - he was all over the place - a freakin' chance maker. Glad to see him back.

Love TooToo's passion. Unsure if you saw it, but Tootoo did have an interview with NESN, it might be up on their site - it was after the 1st when he scored.

Viva Pekka Rinne!!!

Wow. Totally didn't expect us to play so well against the B's, let alone play well enough to win in regulation (well we should have anyway, how do you leave Chara all alone in front of the net?!)!

Legwand!! :yo::handclap:

Legwand, Ward played great all game long.

Two OT game in a row that we got a PP in OT. We really have to start taking advantage of that before that starts going the other way.

I expected Boston to be more hard hitting, but they never really did. Good job by our guys to really keep their big guns quiet.