Yeah Rinne really choked last year. That why some observers thought he should have won the Smythe despite being on the losing team..
Not enough facepalm on the internet for this post...
Rinne was great until the SCF. You can't win the Conn Smythe when your GAA in Pit is 100000. Hyperbole, I know, but he was very bipolar in the SCF. Great games and bad games.
The dynamic of last year to this year is greatly different though. Last year, Rinne and our defense had to be everything. This year, we just needed Rinne to be Rinne.
Oh well. If you flip flop performances, I think Nashville has a SC. Then again, if you restart game 7 against WPG, I think the outcome is different 95 times out of 100 (at least in terms of Rinne's performance).