Rinne, Finns advance at World Championship

John Glennon The Tennessean May 17, 2010

Preds goa­lie Pekka Rinne appears to be back in strong form at The World Cham­pionship in Germany.

Rinne lost his first game of the tour­na­ment, as Den­mark beat Fin­land 4-1 in the teams’ ope­ner. But he’s reboun­ded to win his last two games, and now has a 2-1 record, along with a 1.67 goals against ave­rage and a .921 save per­cen­tage. Rinne stop­ped 25-of-27 shots on Mon­day, as Fin­land beat Slo­va­kia 5-2 and clinched a spot in the quarterfinals.

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Pekka Rinne Continues Strong Play

John Glennon of The Tennessean breaks down his thoughts on Tuesday's Nashville Predators - Pheonix Coyotes game in his Postgame Ponderings Column and comments on the play of Pekka Rinne.

"Tough break for goa­lie Pekka Rinne, who had a second straight strong outing. Des­pite suf­fe­ring the shoo­tout loss, Rinne was cre­di­ted with his third shu­tout of the sea­son and also stop­ped eight-of-10 Phoe­nix shoo­tout attempts. If Rinne gets the start on Thurs­day, it will mark the first time either Pred goa­lie has had three con­se­cu­tive starts since Rinne did Dec. 8-12."

Radulov Rolling In Russia

Forward Alexander Radulov was a starter in Saturday’s Continental Hockey League all-star game. He picked up an assist for Team Yashin, which fell 11-6 to Team Jagr...So far this season, Radulov, who left the Predators two summers ago with a year remaining on his contract, is fifth in the KHL in scoring with 55 points (21 goals, 34 assists) in 47 games played (John Glennon, The Tennessean 12/31/2010).