Hockey

Well, I feel better now. Maggie the Monkey has predicted that the Predators will win the first round of the playoffs.

While walking to a Predators game on Tuesday night, I saw Little Richard. He was driving an SUV outside the downtown Hilton. He looked good. Not too orange.Only in Nashville. The Preds FINALLY won a game on Thursday night. It was their last regular season home game, so that was a nice finish. As Paul

One of the radio commentators for the Preds/Flames game tonight suggested that Nashville try using Vokoun as a forward this evening. Fun idea — as the commentator pointed out, Vokoun always comes out of his net to play the puck anyway, so why not? We are suffering a serious lack of forwards at the moment,

If you are a Nashville Predators “fan” who left early toward the end of our home game against Detroit on Tuesday night, you are fired. I mean, come on, people — so Detroit scored and we were down by 2 goals with 5 minutes left. That is not a hopeless situation! We have one of

I love my preds. They won their game against Toronto last night — tons o’ fun. I was at the game, and the win put me in an extra-happy good mood. [happy sigh . . .] Oh, and add another player to the list of preds with nicknames ending in a ‘y’ sound. Sheldon Brookbank,

I wonder if Jordin Tootoo takes fighting lessons from Paul Kariya’s sister?

I think this is just a sports thing in general, but it cracks me up how several of the Preds have nicknames ending in “y”. Listen to post-game interviews and read quotes — they rarely call each other by their given names, preferring the “y” name most of the time. Some are pretty instinctual —