Pekka Rinne

It's all stupid.

Pecorino used to beat other teams too.

That guy just beats us.

So the next time the Ducks and Sabres play, we'll see if they score 13 goals again.

Yeah, happy Halloween, guys.

Thank you.

Yeah, Monday with Pekka Rinney.

Patrice Bergeron.

Keith Kachuk.

Yeah, exactly.

Our biggie awesome people of the week as we get ready for our first Hockey Fights Cancer Night of the season next Tuesday night, November 3rd, when the Predators host the Hurricanes and Pecorino is in town before he goes into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

To get you warmed up, our friends at the Monroe Carroll Junior Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt have been hand-painting and designing one-of-a-kind shoes from Vans for Predators players to wear as they walk into the arena on game days.

And those shoes are being auctioned off every game.

And you had Roman Yossi.

And you had Pekka Rinne, who was like unreal.

I don't know.

I don't know about...

He's been a huge part of the goaltending development program in Finland.

And we wanted to do a story about what they do that helps make their goalies, especially when you consider Pekka Rinne is going to the Hall of Fame with Carey Price this year, what makes their goalie program so good.

So we did a big thing for elite prospects there.

And then I thought one of the cool things we really did in Helsinki was We sat down with three of the leaders of the Finnish Ice Hockey Players Association.

Cooper Black is 6'9.

Yes, Dylan? For a long time, Pecorino, the old Predators goalie, he was like a freak, and he was 6'5".

I've wondered this for a long time.

Can you get somebody who's built like Indomitian Sioux And then put him in as the goaltender.

The most amazing glove hand.

And that story that Barry Trotz told a couple of episodes ago, we were just in Nashville and we were going for lunch and I told everybody I was with, See this statue? And I told the Pecorino story how how he offered to take a picture of people in front of the statue, even though there was a statue of him.

And Trotsky said, OK, get in the picture.

Yeah.

So they have to jump over that hurdle.

Apart from just their sheer bad luck of their own issues in front of the net, they have to solve the other goalies and make sure that they don't all look like... you know, vintage Pekka Rinne or vintage Dominic Hasek.

Yeah, well, that's, I mean, the goalies you mentioned, like Saros is one thing, but then you're mentioning Tarasov and Lukanen and And Charlie Lindgren, who wasn't really dominant, but he played really well.

While the Canadians were dominating the first two periods, I feel like he kept the Capitals in the game.

So do you think you could name a goalie that you're like, he's been consistently above average his whole career?

Pekka Rinne.

That might be a good answer.

But, like, I was, I was thinking, like, Bob, because he's won two Cups now.