[thefoss1957]

Kind of a wild game at the UC...'Hawks owned the early game, Panarin opened the scoring, but, the next shift, Tootoo with a horrible turnover at the defensive blue line. Ekholm tied it. then Hjalmarsson shoots through 5 men, Rinne had no chance. In the 2nd, the Preds started to command the play. In the 3rd, the Preds kept coming, and tied it, when a Fisher shot trickled behind Crawford, and Watson poked it the last 4 inches. Then luck frowned at Nashville. Three shots beat Crawford cleanly, but, rang two posts and a crossbar. Then Ryan Hartman got the most unnatural natural hat-trick one would ever see. The GWG bounced in off of his pants as he drove the net on a goal mouth scramble. Then, with Rinne pulled, Hartman made a poke check in the neutral zone, and the puck rolled all the way into the net, slowly, from the center red line. Then, with Rinne still on the bench, Q tossed the kid out there to try for the hat-trick, and he did get his 3rd with a chip in from center ice.

It was a 5-2 final, but, that score is deceiving, this game could have easily gone the other way.

Also, wouldn't be surprised to see Fisher get some IR time, He took a Kempny slap shot to the foot, and was clearly in pain the rest of the game, although, he did gut out shift after shift.