Pekka Rinne: career and personal indicators

Pekka Rinne - Finnish goalkeeper, who at the club level protects the colors of the hockey club "Nashville Predators" from the United States. In the National Hockey League Finnish hockey player was in 2005. A year earlier, Nashville was selected for the draft under the overall 258th peak in the eighth round of the lottery. About Pekka Rinne's private life little is known. He meets with a girl named Eric Parko.

Carier start

Pekka was born in 1982. In hockey Finnish goalkeeper Pekka Rinne began playing in 2002 in a club called "Kärpyate", with which he was able to win two championship titles in domestic competitions.

For the Finnish hockey club, he performed for three seasons, in 2004 he expressed a desire to expose himself to the NHL Draft. Luck smiled goalkeeper only in the eighth round, when he was selected "Predators" from Nashville. After this photo Pekka Rinne began to appear on the pages of all Finnish sports publications. For "Käppyat" Pekka played a total of 26 fights, of which 13 of his team won and another 5 brought in a draw. In the 2004/05 season, Pekka Rinne played 10 games, in which he missed 16 goals. The percentage of deflected pucks reached 92.7, which is one of the best indicators in the career of the Finnish gate guard.

"Milwaukee Admiralz"

After Pekka Rinne was drafted by Nashville, he continued his career as a member of the predators' farm club, which is called the Milwaukee Admiral. As part of the "admirals" in the American Hockey League, Rinne played 145 bouts in regular championships and 24 more games in the playoff round.

In his debut season in the AHL Rinne held 51 duel, of which 30 "admirals" celebrated the victory. The goalkeeper missed 139 goals, and the percentage of deflected pucks reached 90.4. At this level, he stayed for subsequent seasons, held in the American Hockey League.

Nashville Predators

During his time as part of the Milwaukee Admiral, Pekka Rinne was summoned three times by the Predator coaches to the main team. The debut game for "Nashville" Rinne spent in the 2005/06 season. In the same season he played his second game for the main club. For two matches in total the goalkeeper played 63 minutes and conceded four goals. The third game for "Nashville Predators" Pekka spent two years later. Her "Predators" won, and Rinne spent 29 minutes on the rink and did not miss a single puck. Thus, statistically this season in the "Nashville" is considered to be the best in terms of the percentage of beaten off washers - 100%.

In 2008, the Finn became the goalkeeper of the main team. In his first season as the first number of "predators" Pekka Rinne spent 52 games in which he made seven "jester".

As a result of the regular championship, "Nashville" could not get into the top 8 teams of the Conference and stayed behind the Stanley Cup playoffs. In the next three seasons, Rinne spent 58, 64 and 73 games respectively. Three years in a row, "predators" were in the playoffs of the competition, but the team did not get beyond the second round. In the 2009/10 season, Nashville stopped at the first round of the playoffs, and in the 2010/11 and 2011/12 season the team was finishing its way to triumph in the second round. For three seasons in the playoffs, Rinne had 28 matches. His percentage of parried blows averaged 91.6.

Visit to Belarus and return to the NHL

Season 2012/13 Finn held not in the National Hockey League. He went to Belarus, where he played 22 games in the Kontinental Hockey League club under the name "Dynamo Minsk". In this club, Rinne gave one of his worst scores on the percentage of beaten washers - 89.7%.

Upon his return to the US, Pekka continued to speak for Nashville. In 2014, he played four games for "predators" and two more fights held as part of the farm club. During this period, the NHL club once again failed to qualify for the round of the playoffs at the end of the regular season.

Over the past three years, "Nashville" was a regular participant in the games on the flight. In 2015, Rinne spent 64 games in the regular season and 6 more - in the playoff round. All of them fell to the first stage, which became for the hockey player and the company of the latter. A year later, "Nashville" with Rinne was able to overcome the barrier of the first round, but lost in the second. Total hockey player in the software spent 14 games - 7 wins against 7 losses. The percentage of beaten washers was 90.6.

Season 2016/17 has become one of the best in the career of Rinne, and in recent years for "Nashville". 41 victory in 82 games allowed the team from the state of Tennessee to go to the playoffs of the Stanley Cup. In the first round, the Chicago Blackhawks were defeated in four fights. The next rivals were "jazzmen" from St. Louis, which "predators" beat with a score of 4: 2. With the same result, the final of the conference ended, in which the club from Tennessee "ate" the "ducks" from Anaheim. And the Stanley Cup finals ended with a similar score. However, in the decisive games, luck turned from "Nashville". Contender "Predators" was a team from Pittsburgh, led by the magnificent Sidney Crosby. In six fights, Pekka Rinne's team was beaten by Pittsburgh penguins.