SAN JOSE, CALIF. - The Nashville Predators don’t just have the San Jose Sharks to contend with in Game 7, they will be taking another run at their own glass ceiling.
In 18 years of feisty, hard-nosed Predators hockey, in nine trips to the playoffs in the past 12 seasons, they have never made it past the second round.
Seven games in the second round is already as far as they’ve ever been before, but that’s not nearly deep enough for a team that’s long been determined to prove it’s more than a scrappy underdog that puts up a nice fight or two and then steps aside as the heavyweights take over.