Dream come true for Smashville as Predators advance to Stanley Cup Final | Mark Spector, Sportsnet
Everyone in hockey (except for Anaheim and Marc Bergevin) is happy to see Nashville in the Final. After watching the last few games of this series, I was again reminded why I could never root for Anaheim. But, enough of that, he’re’s Pekka Rinne discussing how it feels to make it to the Stanley Cup Final.
“It’s a dream come true,” the big Finnish goalie Pekka Rinne, who came here as an eighth-round pick and has become this club’s longest standing member and de facto captain.