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It’s time to get our season previews underway and what better way to start it then to take a look at the position that has the least number of players: goalies!
Instead of the norm of doing a player by player preview for the upcoming season, we’re condensing it into a few articles looking at the different areas of the game: offense, defense, goaltending, special teams, coaching. In each article we’ll look at each player available for that position and how we at The Predatorial feel they are going to do in the shotgun season we are about to see commenced.
Nashville has been fortunate to be graced with the presence of an All-World starting goaltender in Pekka Rinne and a class-act, very capable backup in Chris Mason. With Anders Lindback traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning prior to Free Agency this summer, Nashville’s signing of Mason on July 1st was arguably their best move of Free Agency as a whole.
That being said, how will both actually ...
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PLAYERS:
Pekka Rinne,
Chris Mason,
Anders Lindback,
Ondrej Pavelec
TEAMS: Nashville Predators, Winnipeg Jets, Tampa Bay Lightning
TEAMS: Nashville Predators, Winnipeg Jets, Tampa Bay Lightning
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