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“Pekka Rinne, how do you spell it?”
Barry Trotz pauses, waiting to deliver the punchline: “I spell it M-V-P!”
“’Cause he is. He’s our MVP.”
And not only the most valuable player of the Nashville Predators, the team’s long-time coach adds, but MVP of the entire league, a goaltender worthy of the Hart Memorial Trophy when this 2011-12 season is finished.
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