Pekka, man...
Rinne has been in the middle of a really good run of play this season. As the Detroit broadcast team pointed out, he was seventh in the league this season in 5-on-5 save percentage (just over .930). He’s made handfuls of highlight-reel saves that give us glimpses of the goalie who single-handedly willed the Nashville Predators to wins they had no business getting.
And then he has nights like this.
Those last three goals he surrendered were just flat-out ugly, and we’ll break that down a little more in depth later on.