Question Time: Can Preds Survive Without Rinne?
After emerging from a tense couple of hours in the cinema watching Tom Hanks cope with being hijacked by pirates in 'Captain Phillips' I found Mike's question of the week on my phone which read,
"Pekka Rinne is going to miss 4 weeks due to Injury, how much will this affect his teams performance?"
The two time Veniza trophy nominee has proven to be a wall in net for the Nashville Predators since arriving in 2005 and so far he holds a win/loss rate of 153-83 and impressively holds a save percentage of .920! Rinne has without question been the most important factor of the Predators over the last few years and has led them to no less than 8 visits to the Playoffs.
But with the team no losing him, it will either be a time for his backups to sink or swim and now Nashville has the worrying issue that both Carter Hutton and Magnus Hellberg do not have any NHL experience under their belts. Hutton briefly was called up to the Chicago Blackhawks during their Stanley Cup playoffs last year but didnt feature and Hellberg has primarily been playing for the Milwaukee Admirals in the AHL.
So the big question is will Rinne's absence affect Nashville? Short answer to that question is yes very much because the Predators are a team not knlown for its offensive capabilities and so far they have only scored 19 goals, the lowest of the Western Conference and their goals against stands only at 24. Without Rinne this figure is sure to increase!
"Pekka Rinne is going to miss 4 weeks due to Injury, how much will this affect his teams performance?"
The two time Veniza trophy nominee has proven to be a wall in net for the Nashville Predators since arriving in 2005 and so far he holds a win/loss rate of 153-83 and impressively holds a save percentage of .920! Rinne has without question been the most important factor of the Predators over the last few years and has led them to no less than 8 visits to the Playoffs.
But with the team no losing him, it will either be a time for his backups to sink or swim and now Nashville has the worrying issue that both Carter Hutton and Magnus Hellberg do not have any NHL experience under their belts. Hutton briefly was called up to the Chicago Blackhawks during their Stanley Cup playoffs last year but didnt feature and Hellberg has primarily been playing for the Milwaukee Admirals in the AHL.
So the big question is will Rinne's absence affect Nashville? Short answer to that question is yes very much because the Predators are a team not knlown for its offensive capabilities and so far they have only scored 19 goals, the lowest of the Western Conference and their goals against stands only at 24. Without Rinne this figure is sure to increase!
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