North Dakota Hockey Team Headed to Nashville
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The North Dakota Hockey Team defeated Boston University in the Hockey East semifinals on Friday Night 3-2. The win sends the team to the conference championship game for the second consecutive year.
North Dakota Hockey Team
The University of North Dakota men’s Hockey Team is headed to Nashville, Tennessee to participate in the NCAA Division I Men’s Hockey Tournament This is the first time the team has made it to the tournament since 2016. The team will face off against the University of Wisconsin on Friday, March 22 at 4:30 PM CT.
Nashville Predators
The Nashville Predators are a professional Ice Hockey team based in Nashville, Tennessee. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Predators began play as an expansion team in the 1998–99 NHL season
2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs
The 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs is the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL). The playoffs began on April 12, 2017, after the 2016–17 regular season ended, and will end in early June, with the Stanley Cup Finals.
This is the first time in franchise history that the Nashville Predators have made it to the Stanley Cup Finals. They will face off against either the Pittsburgh Penguins or Ottawa Senators. The best-of-seven series will start on May 29th in Nashville.
Western Conference Semifinals
The Western Conference Semifinals are upon us and the North Dakota Hockey team is gearing up to take on the Nashville Predators This is sure to be an exciting series, with both teams looking to advance to the Western Conference Finals
The North Dakota Hockey team has been one of the most successful teams in recent years making it to the playoffs in each of the past three seasons. This year, they finished the regular season with a record of 44-29-9, good for fourth place in the conference. They will be looking to continue their success in the playoffs, and they will have their work cut out for them against a Nashville team that finished just one point behind them in the standings.
Nashville finished the Regular Season with a record of 43-28-11 and they will be looking to make a deep run in the playoffs after falling short last year. They have one of the best goaltenders in the league in Pekka Rinne and a strong defense that will be looking to shut down North Dakota’s high-powered offense.
This series is sure to be a close one, and it will be exciting to see which team comes out on top.
Puck Drop
The puck drops on the season this Friday, September 27th as the Nashville Predators open up at home against the Carolina Hurricanes The game will mark the first time that an NHL team will play in Nashville since 1998, when the Nashville Nighthawks took on the Central Hockey League’s Memphis RiverKings.
Game 1
The North Dakota hockey team is headed to Nashville to take on the Vanderbilt Commodores in the first round of the NCAA tournament The game will be played on Friday, March 22 at 4:30pm CT.
Preds vs. Hawks
The Nashville Predators will take on the Chicago Blackhawks in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs The Predators are the top seed in the Central Division while the Blackhawks are the Wild Card team. This will be the first time these two teams have met in the playoffs. The series will start on Thursday, April 13 in Nashville.
Game 2
The North Dakota hockey team is headed to Nashville for game two of the playoffs. The team is looking to continue their winning ways and take another step closer to the Stanley Cup
Game 3
The third game of the Stanley Cup will be played in Nashville on Saturday, the Predators said. The game will start at 8 p.m. Eastern time and will be televised on NBCSN in the United States and on CBC and Sportsnet in Canada.
Game 4
The North Dakota Hockey team is looking to take control of the best-of-seven series against Nashville in game four on Tuesday night. North Dakota has won two in a row and three of the four games played so far in the series.
Nashville will be looking to even the series at two games apiece with a win on home ice. The Predators have not lost back-to-back games since February and will be looking to avoid that streak on Tuesday night.
The game is set to start at 7:00 p.m. CT and will be broadcast on NBCSN.