Predators post-game wrapup: "Pesky Preds" aim to ruin Detroit's fun
by Dirk Hoag on Feb 14, 2012 11:42 PM EST
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PrintFollowing the Nashville Predators 3-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks tonight, the team will have the benefit of a confidence boost as they prepare for a road game at Detroit on Friday, where the last 21 visitors have tasted defeat. During the player segment of tonight's post-game show, Preds winger Colin Wilson said that the "pesky Preds" are aiming to ruin the fun up in Motown.
On the other side of tonight's game, however, the mood is getting dark on a Blackhawks team which has now dropped 9 straight games:
Blackhawks goaltender Ray Emery on Predators' winning goal. "You have to stop the trend somewhere. I really have to stop that."
— Chris Kuc (@ChrisKuc) February 15, 2012
All the post-game audio that's fit for your ears follows after the jump...
Courtesy of the gang at 102.5 The Game, we have an interview with ESPN's Scott Burnside who visited Nashville for this game, the radio highlights from tonight's game, and Colin Wilson's segment as the player guest with Willy Daunic at the Patron Platinum Club:
Scott Burnside on 1025 2012-02-14
Predators Blackhawks highlights 2012-02-14
Colin Wilson on 1025 2012-02-14
In addition, Preds PR has provided commentary from the following - just click each name for the MP3:
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Ugh, please do not adopt the Pesky adjective. #peskystars has thoroughly beat that nickname into the ground this season. Go Preds.
The Admirals use it, too. My timeline is filled with #peskyAds tweets. Especially since Latta’s been on IR. I think he’s bored.
R.I.P. Belak, Rypien, Boogaard, Lokomotiv.
"You don’t motivate people; you activate something in them that already exists." -Guy Boucher
" I saw it, I called it, I still don't believe it!"--Pete Weber
Tootoo uses it all the time
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old Persian proverb
when fortune turns against you even jelly will crack your tooth.
not sure what more we could have done tonight. Can’t be unhappy with the effort. Toews has got to bury that shot from the slot off a great play by Lepsito. I’m not sure if he’s still hurt, but he shot it right into Rinne’s glove next to his belly. Rinne never moved it. A sniper buries that upper right corner.
Although I’d say we carried the play, The Predators never stop hustling. It was a fun game to watch despite the outcome.
Keiths stick got a good piece of ellis’s shot – a lot of people in Chicago are claiming they could have made that save. If Crow or Emery would have let in either goal the Hawks shot tonight they would have been tarred and feathered.
Like to see you guys beat the Wings- they’re luck is the exact opposite of the hawks at the moment.
Emery actually had a lot of great saves to keep the Hawks in it.
There were several point blank shots that Emery got.
Beer... Now there's a temporary solution.-Homer Simpson
Didn't you know?
Pekka’s glove has precognition
R.I.P. Belak, Rypien, Boogaard, Lokomotiv.
"You don’t motivate people; you activate something in them that already exists." -Guy Boucher
" I saw it, I called it, I still don't believe it!"--Pete Weber
I don't know what to say......
On the one hand I want to feel sorry for the Hawks for how sorry they are right now. On the other hand, I hate the Hawks and feel it couldn’t happen to a nicer buncha fellas.
Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is where the Stanley Cup can be found.
by Pekka for Predator Pontiff on Feb 15, 2012 11:15 AM EST up reply actions
kind of a related story
I used to golf with 3 friends every Sat. morning at 5:50am. A little hard getting up, but once you got there, it was a small slice of heaven on earth. One day, I was really struggling and in typical hacker form became quite a miserable person. I steadfastly resisted my friends attempts to cheer me up, wallowing in self pity. Every ounce of my body laguage said I’m miserable and I want to stay this way.
I ended up recovering and won a big carry over on the skin game. This prompted one of the regulars to say, “Why the hell did I feel sorry for you,” when he saw my instantaneous cahnge in demeanor.
Moral of the story is, when you can, “Kick the hell out of a dog when he’s down.”
Touche
F%$& you and the Hawk you rode in on!!!
:)
Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is where the Stanley Cup can be found.
by Pekka for Predator Pontiff on Feb 15, 2012 2:29 PM EST up reply actions
They have had a lot of success over their history, but the first nine seasons the Preds were in the league, the Hawks only made it to the playoffs once. Our longest win streak against them is seven games, our longest losing streak is four games.
World Wide Weber.
There is no tenderness or humanity in fanaticism.
~Joe Strummer
your honest opinion
Klein, not Toews, should have been sent to the box in the first.
By the way, Pred fans deserve to have mangement sign Keep both Weber and Suter. As much as i’d like to have either one, I’m a big proponent of stars staying where they are.
LeBron will forever be on my doglist
by wardrums on Feb 15, 2012 12:51 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I thought the call was sketchy. Klein didn’t deserve to go to the box. Toews wasn’t being pushed but he wasn’t being allowed to cut in front. Toews could have skated to his left and not hit Pekka. The thing is, if that is TooToo instead of Toews, it is a suspension.
I thought a couple of the early calls, one for Hawks, two for Preds, were kind of weak. I think Toronto called in the first intermission and told the refs to let them play.
World Wide Weber.
There is no tenderness or humanity in fanaticism.
~Joe Strummer
although I thought Toews was pushed, and he was trying to stop....
I agree with everything else you wrote.
I didn’t feel tooToo deserved a suspension. He was also pushed a little and actually was tring to spin away from Miller while in the air. I don’t even think the collision was that bad. He was going hard to the net and when knocked off balance lost control.
I hesitate to ask the enemy what they thought about reffing ussually, because you normally get back 2 or 3 penalties that weren’t called for your side.
Toews could have avoided it.
That’s why he got the penalty. I get that Klein “guided” him into the goalie, but there didn’t seem to be a definitive push of Toews. Thus, he could have avoided it if he wanted to, but didn’t and he deserved the penalty. To Toews’ credit, he didn’t try and hurt Rinne, he just ran into him.
Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is where the Stanley Cup can be found.
by Pekka for Predator Pontiff on Feb 15, 2012 2:31 PM EST up reply actions
Klein wasn’t going to let him cut in front of Peks. ‘Guided’ may be too strong a word.
World Wide Weber.
There is no tenderness or humanity in fanaticism.
~Joe Strummer
Maybe so, but that proves the point even more.
I was being generous!
Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is where the Stanley Cup can be found.
by Pekka for Predator Pontiff on Feb 15, 2012 3:15 PM EST up reply actions
Scott Burnside audio
is worth listening to. I missed it b/c I was at dinner at Demo’s, but it’s spot on imho.
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Human Rocket Ship
Nice to be able to scream for him tonight. Says something for his character, a healthy scratch and he comes back with 2 points.
Tom Callahan...
…yelled that out after Ellis scored his goal last night – I’d like to see that name take off around the League – no pun intended.
- History will be made. Our time is MEOW. -
by Smashville HockeyCat on Feb 15, 2012 8:10 AM EST reply actions
thats awesome
I love that he used it. Now if we can get him to call smith honey badger we will be all set
by Shadow23 on Feb 15, 2012 5:30 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
During the warmups last night my 10 year old daughter pointed out that Ellis looks like Gnomeo from Gnomeo & Juliet.
Henceforth, in my house at least, he shall be referred to as Gnomeo.
And I <3 Gnomeo.
by Melissa Vanderpool Wallace on Feb 15, 2012 10:43 AM EST reply actions
Emery made some tremendous saves in the second. as the Hawk faithful are saying, they need much better Dmen after their top 2.
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