from Adam Vingan of The Tennessean,

The play of Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne this postseason has been inhuman.

He has been the team's unbreakable backbone during the playoffs, but he bent slightly Sunday in the Predators' 5-3 Game 2 loss to the Anaheim Ducks in the Western Conference finals.

“At the beginning of the game, it’s 2-0 (Predators)," said Rinne, who allowed a playoff-high four goals to send the series to Nashville tied for Game 3 on Tuesday. "But it’s a 60-minute game and it’s a good hockey team there."

To completely pin the loss on Rinne would be unfair, but he was average for the first time during the Predators' historic run....

"I thought that there was some saves that he made that were really good," Predators coach Peter Laviolette said. "There were a couple scrambles in front of the net where we can do a better job of tying up in front of him.

"Certainly the second goal, I think we can do a better job defensively. We’ve been pretty good in front of him. I think we could go back into Game 3 and look to be a little bit better defensively.”

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