Tonight the Nashville Predators play the Pittsburgh Penguins in game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final. Pittsburgh had won the first two games of the series at home but then when they went to Nashville for games 3 and 4 they got crushed by the Predators. Nashville has a humongous fan base including loads of country singers since Nashville is the country music capital of the United States. I am cheering for Nashville and I really hope they can win since this is their first time ever in the Stanley Cup Final. Game 5 is really important since if they win game 5 then they will have a 3-2 series lead and then they will need to win one more game and they have only lost one game at home in the entire Stanley Cup Finals. If Pittsburgh wins tonight I don’t think Nashville will be able to win the cup which would kind of suck since they have never won the Stanley Cup. Nashville is still without their number one center Ryan Johansen yet they are still playing really really well. Johansen will be out for the rest of the playoffs. I am really cheering for Nashville to win the cup since I don’t like the Penguins at all. If the Penguins won the cup this year it would be the first time since 1998 that a team has won back to back Stanley Cups. Pittsburgh has played the whole playoffs so far without star defencemen Kris Letang. They are also without forward Patrick Hornquist. Nashville has two players with injuries one is Johansen and the other is Kevin Fiala. The predators played in the Western Conference final without their top two centers but luckily Mike fisher can play now so they just don’t have their number 1 center. Games 3 and 4 in Nashville just so happened to be played on defencemen Roman Josi’s and Centre Mike fisher’s birthday’s.
The preds played well but the refs made a bad call. At least they made it to the finals for the first time ever. Good job preds.