Predators Update, March 17 2009

by Dirk Hoag on Mar 17, 2009 9:59 AM EDT

Top o' the morning, Preds fans, let's see what's going on in the hockey world today:

With last night's late win over the Kings, Nashville has leapt into 7th place in the Western Conference.

In his morning radio update on 104.5, Pete Weber noted that when J.P. Dumont got boarded late in the game last night, the reason he was slow to get up was because as he went into the boards, he basically speared himself on his own stick. He just got the wind knocked out of him, and should be fine.

This isn't strictly Preds-related, but interesting nonetheless; the Wall Street Journal's Daily Fix blog reports on an idea being tried out in the NBA's developmental league. For playoff matchups, the three division winners in each conference get to choose their first-round opponent, rather than simply going by rankings. Applying that idea to the NHL, "Last spring, the Detroit Red Wings might have chosen to skip playing the Nashville Predators, their division rivals who had dealt them three of their 21 regular-season losses and who pushed the West’s best team to six games in the first round."

Finally, someone over at the LetsGoKings.com posted a great picture from last night's game, catching Ryan Jones scoring the game-winner:

via www.letsgokings.com

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Great Photo

Quite a celebratory face Jones has in that photo. Congrats to him on his first game winning goal.

by loudestnoise on Mar 17, 2009 11:49 AM EDT reply actions

That is one of the best pics of the year. I love the youthful enthusiasm. I miss Rads’ celebrations and enjoy Ovie’s, regardless of what Don Cherry says. I wonder what the old goat would say about this celebration?

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by PredsOnTheGlass on Mar 17, 2009 12:28 PM EDT reply actions

Choosing your opponent

They did something like that in the Junior A loop that features my hometown. I can’t remember how it worked completely but the top-ranked team chose to play them because of the regular season domination. The opponents then took a 6-1 lead into the third period of game 4 (up 3-0 in the series) before losing in 7.

I wonder what limits the league would have to put on the choice? Only from the top 8 teams would make the most sense.

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by PPP on Mar 17, 2009 2:06 PM EDT reply actions

5-8

Teams 1-3 get to pick from the 5-8 place teams.
1 picks first, 2 picks next, 3 picks between the two remaining, then 4 plays whoever is left over.

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by pwnicholson on Mar 17, 2009 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions