April 20, 2008: George W. Bush was still President of the United States, Iron Man hadn’t hit theaters yet, and Flo Rida and T-Pain wrote a power ballad about apple bottom jeans and #BootsWithTheFur.
Also that night, Dan Ellis led the Predators on the ice for Game Six of the Western Conference Quarterfinals. Despite making 40 saves (which gave him 92 saves in a two-game span), Ellis took the loss in Nashville’s 3-0 defeat at the hands of Detroit.
It would be the last time someone not named Pekka Rinne started a playoff game for the Nashville Predators.