Greetings From Smashville! Season 13, Week 17 Jas Faulkner | January 28, 2011 by Jas Faulkner, Nashville Correspondent The road trip to Western Canada is always a complicated, hard to predict affair for the Predators. Sometimes they storm through Alberta and British Columbia like a barbaric…
Book Review: The Making of Slap Shot Rebecca Dobrinski | January 25, 2011 The Making of Slap Shot: Behind the Scenes of the Greatest Hockey Movie Ever Made. By Jonathon Jackson. (2010, Mississauga, Ontario: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. Hardcover. Pp. vii-306.…
Greetings From Smashville! Season 13, Week 15 Jas Faulkner | January 19, 2011 by Jas Faulkner, Nashville Correspondent Week Fifteen was almost the only time in January most of Predsnation managed to see the team in the flesh. They’ve been on the road nearly…
Greetings From Smashville! Season 13, Week 6 Jas Faulkner | November 17, 2010 Yeah, yeah I know…Toronto…the wheels came off…etc. That’s for the next digest. Let’s talk about last week. Get Backes, Get Backes, Get Backes To Where You Once Belonged…
The Worst Maple Leafs Team Ever? Mike Moore | November 14, 2010 When Vancouver Canucks defenseman Dan Hamhuis scored into an empty net to seal a 5-3 victory over the hapless Toronto Maple Leafs last night, Leaf winger Kris Versteeg chased…
Greetings From Smashville! Season 13, Week 4 Jas Faulkner | November 1, 2010 by Jas Faulkner, Nashville Correspondent Before I start, I have to make a confession: I have a bizarre loathing of costumed characters. Yeah, I know, not the best neurosis to…
Greetings From Smashville! Season 13: Week 2 Jas Faulkner | October 18, 2010 by Jas Faulkner, Nashville Correspondent Swearing on the dusty, trepanned skull of Bob Lobertini will not change the weather in Nashville any more than declaring that an hour really has thirty minutes in…
Roller Hockey International: Gone but not Forgotten Cory Twibell | September 23, 2010 A look back at one of the most memorable experiments in human history: Roller Hockey International.
Camp Medicals: Preds Open Up and Say, “Rawr!” Jas Faulkner | September 17, 2010 by Jas Faulkner, Nashville Correspondent How far can you jump sideways on one leg? How fast can you skate? These are two of the many questions the Predators had to…
Nashville Hockey 2010-11 Edition, The PFO and the Coaching Staff Jas Faulkner | August 26, 2010 by Jas Faulkner, Nashville Correspondent This is a short list of key players. You’ll meet more of the people behind the scenes as the season progresses. The Predators Owner Group…
Nashville Hockey/2010-11 Edition Part One: A Brief Introduction Jas Faulkner | August 21, 2010 by Jas Faulkner, Nashville Correspondent How-DEE! All across Canada, America (and certain parts of Northern Europe and Russia) keyboards are clicking furiously as writers, fans, wonks, and just everydarnedbody in…
The Start of a Beautiful Relationship… Cory Twibell | August 20, 2010 What to look for as the New York Rangers gear up for the 2010-2011 year and an introduction from The Hockey News contributor, Cory Twibell.