I like Nashville

They're sort of like the anti-Caps - consistent - hardworking - overachieving - battlers. They leave it all out there on the ice every time I watch them play. I watched many of their games during last season's playoffs and enjoyed seeing them overcome the Anaheim Ducks and push the Stanley Cup Champion finalist Vancouver Canucks to six games in round two. All but one of those six games were one-goal games. That says a lot for Nashville.Maybe it's something about David Poile's teams since the last one I admired was that 1997-1998 overachieving Stanley Cup finalist Washington Capitals team led by stellar play in net from Godzilla, aka, Olaf Kolzig. Pekka Rinne's played a similar role for Nashville with his performance during last season's playoffs. Poile's reputation is about creating hard-working teams that overachieve on small budgets and he's done it again in Nashville. He had to do it for Abe Pollin, during his Washington years, because Pollin...