Top 10 GNASH games broadcast by MTSN in all of 2025

Unlike last week’s list, which was a “10 Best”, this is a ranked list.

10. Page-Summit vs. Ravenwood - 29 September - The 2-2 tie that these two teams played in December of last year was probably the best game of the 2024-25 regular season. This showdown was way more insane, but the difference here was, the Raptors played from behind the whole time. A seemingly normal first period saw the Spartriots leading 2-1 after one. Then the second period happened. At least the first half of it. Ravenwood tied the game early, only for Page to answer right back, then Ravenwood tied the game again, only for Page to retake the lead, before the Spartriots went up two, then Ravenwood scored to get back within one. Somehow, the 5-4 score held up for the last 6:47 of the second. Then early in the third, Reeve Gabele scored to put Page up 6-4, and it felt like that was it, only for Brady Friedman to bring Ravenwood back within 6-5 just over a minute later, then Grady Fernan scoring the game’s final goal just near the halfway point of the third, and, like the second, the last 7:20 passed without someone scoring a game-winner. We were robbed of a playoff rematch between these two last February; don’t let us down this time, GNASH gods.

9. Franklin vs. Montgomery Bell - 27 October - These two teams have kind of become rivals the past few seasons, starting in 2023-24, when they dueled for the GNASH Cup regular season championship, which the Big Red ended up winning. This occasion was the Admirals’ first look at MBA’s freshman goalie Tripp Bland, and he got in their heads. Franklin had numerous 1-on-1 chances against Bland across the first two periods, and he stopped every single one. Just over two minutes into the second, Ethan Sides scored the game’s first goal. Hank Hayes tied the game just over five minutes later, only for Duke D’Alba to put MBA back in the lead just over 100 seconds later, and the Big Red held onto the 2-1 lead until just over a minute to go, when Hayes scored again by firing a shot from the left-wing boards just above the left-wing corner that hit the top corner on the left-hand side of the net. It was definitely a game where both teams walked away mad that they didn’t win it.

8. Tennessee Outlaws vs. JPII-MLK - 5 February - The Outlaws got into the Predators Cup by the skin of their teeth, taking the final berth by having a better goal difference than Station Camp-Liberty Creek. Both they and the Knights lost their tournament openers two nights later, and, on paper, JPII had to be the favorites. But Justin Clark made the choice to put backup Matthew Simmons in the crease instead of usual starter Jacob Benoit. After two periods, the Knights led 3-2, but it could’ve been 3-3, had Anna Markova not missed a glorious chance with a wide-open net in the first. The Outlaws then rattled off three straight goals in the third to go up 5-3, but 15 seconds after Josh Kuehn’s second goal put the Outlaws up two, Joe Hiller got the Knights back within one with 4:41 left. They kept applying the pressure, but couldn’t get an equalizer, with Justin Iannuccilli making a big point-blank stop on Kade Ziemendorf at the buzzer (this was Ziemendorf’s final act for JPII, as he moved to Idaho for his senior season) to preserve the win. As I’ve said many a time, I don’t like double-elimination for the fact that, 99.9% of the time, the 5 seed always beats the 8 in the first round of eliminations, and I was expecting it to happen again on this occasion, but the 2024-25 Outlaws again pulled off a big shocker (having, of course, beaten Ravenwood 2-0 the previous October), and added a little flavor to a usually bland portion of the postseason. Unfortunately, they got the axe from MBA in the very next round, and lost the big core of Dalton Alejandro, AJ Molloy, and Elijah Freeman to graduation, and, as of this writing, are two dropped points plus an Ensworth win away from a Hine Cup return.

7. Hendersonville-Beech-Lawson vs. Mt. Juliet-Wilson Central-Lebanon - 1 October - Jordan Antar scored the game’s first goal just 23 seconds in, and Carter Spencer put the Bears up 2-0 nearly four minutes later, then, once the first period got past its halfway point, Caleb Carlance and Matthew Almeida scored within two minutes to get the Commandos back on level terms. At this point, Shepard Hulsey and Justin Smith locked down their respective nets, and no one scored again until Gideon Drobnick gave Hendersonville their first lead of the game with just over 9:30 left in the third; Antar scored his second just over three minutes later to tie the game back up, but Braden Rose rang the winner off the inside of the MJ net’s left-hand post with just under three minutes to go. It was Hendersonville’s first win of the season, and it’s a big win, because they’re now only two points off the top of the league. As for Mt. Juliet, this was the third in a six-game losing streak to open the season; if they’d managed to win this one, how different could things have turned out for them?

6. Hendersonville-Beech-Lawson vs. Page-Summit - 3 November - The Spartriots were in a rough patch when this game came along; sure, they’d beaten Brentwood-BA-USN a week earlier, but the two games before that were the shocking beating they took from Independence-Centennial, then their 2-1 loss to Station Camp-Liberty Creek-Nashville Christian. It felt like they were a talented team expecting the games to come to them rather than go and chase it. Here, they led the Commandos 2-1 after one, but they were lackadaisical again in the second, and surrendered twice, trailing 3-2 going into the third; but the headscratching stat was the fact that they only had nine SOGs after two. Head coach Greg Sauers lit into them during the break, and they responded: Tyler Bell stole the puck from Caleb Priest near the Hendersonville net, and tied the game just near the halfway point of the third. The Spartriots had a power play late, and Elijah Selby fed Hudson Halters right in front, and he scored the game-winner with 85 seconds left, with Aiden Garner sealing the game with an empty-netter 29 seconds later, a goal notable for the sight of Griffen Rumbaugh unsuccessfully scrambling back to the net when he spotted Garner with the biscuit as he was trying to rush to the bench for the extra attacker. This game woke Page up; it was the second in a five-game winning streak, and the second game in an ongoing seven-game unbeaten streak. If the Spartriots end up winning the GNASH Cup, this is where the campaign really got started.

5. Brentwood vs. Station Camp-Liberty Creek - 26 February - A pleasing opening act to an extraordinary Preds Cup Final saw the Bruins and Bison battle to see who would face Father Ryan in the Hine Cup Final the very next night. It was one-sided after two, as Camp led 6-3. But Brentwood wouldn’t stay down: In a span of just 12 seconds in the third, and not even two minutes in, Brody Bohman and Will Hubbard got the Bruins back within one, but Tobyn Mehaffy scored a late empty-netter to tuck the win away, and the Bison went on to beat the Irish one night later to force the If Necessary, which the Irish would win 7-5 to win the tournament. But this game also had big ramifications for Brentwood: Just days later, the program’s parent board decided to relieve Chris Orem of his head coaching duties after 12 seasons on the job.

4. Independence-Centennial vs. Nolensville - 22 September - I don’t know if I’ve ever broadcast an Opening Night game as good as this one: A goaltending duel between Bingston Soundara and David Busby that ended with both of them making 28 saves, but one allowing one more goal. Aiden Gardner scored the game’s first goal just over three minutes in, and Henry Cravens quickly tied things up just over 3:30 later. It took just over a full period for Spencer Pacholko to score his first GNASH goal and put the Eagles back in front, only for Charlie Bohnert to tie it back up nearly three minutes later, when he beat Busby to a loose puck in the Indy zone, and put it in the empty net. It appeared the game would end in a tie until the final ten seconds: A centering pass to Bryson Patton went behind him, and Logan Campbell grabbed it, and led a 2-on-1 with Jackson Malleus-Mayer, feeding him the puck, and Malleus-Mayer scored from the left circle to give Nolensville their first lead of the game and the win with 3.8 seconds to go. A truly great game, and if these two teams end up in the Hine Cup, it would be a terrific final.

3. Montgomery Bell vs. Ravenwood - 24 February - For the second straight year, these two rivals met in the Preds Cup Losers’ Bracket Final to see who would face Ensworth. Ravenwood had dominated the Big Red all season, including a 3-1 triumph in the Winners’ Bracket Semifinals just a couple of weeks earlier. But, for a bit, it seemed that this would be the Big Red’s night. MBA had a 2-1 lead after the first, only for Ravenwood to tie the game just 40 seconds into the second; Mason Reed gave them a 3-2 lead just over 3:30 later, and that was the score after two. Duke D’Alba tied it up just over three minutes into the third, and the game went into overtime. It appeared that it would head to a shootout, but MBA turned the puck over at center, and Reed score the winner with 56 seconds left, in what turned out to be his last big moment in GNASH, as he moved to Anaheim to play for the Jr. Ducks’ U18 AAA team after just one season in Nashville.

2. Ensworth-Nolensville-Lipscomb vs. Ravenwood - 13 January - The first night back from the 2024-25 holiday break brought about a big showdown between the Ice Tigers and Raptors with the GNASH Cup and Preds Cup 1 seed on the line. If Ensworth won, or the game ended tied, both of those prizes would be theirs. If Ravenwood won, it would put them in the driver’s seat for both of prizes, because this was Ensworth’s regular season finale, and the Raptors had winnable games against Independence-BA-USN-Nashville Christian and Station Camp-Liberty Creek to come. Ravenwood scored the opening goal early in the second, only for Spencer Kern to score a second period hat trick that had Ensworth up 3-1 after two. Near the halfway point of the third, Liam Powell got Ravenwood back within a goal, but Ensworth held on from there to win both the GNASH Cup and Preds Cup 1 seed, with Bingston Soundara making three blockbuster saves in the span of about ten seconds in the final minute.

1. Ravenwood vs. Ensworth-Nolensville-Lipscomb - 26 February - It’s a shame that this rivalry kinda died after this game with Nolensville breaking off to go scholastic, because this season would’ve been one hell of a finale to wrap up the trilogy. It took just over four minutes for Ensworth to take the lead through Henry Cravens, and they went up 2-0 nearly five minutes into the second from Jackson Malleus-Mayer. Grady Fernan got Ravenwood on the board, and it was 2-1 as both teams went back to the dressing rooms for the ice cut. Near the halfway point of the third, Canon Kiser scored a controversial equalizer that went in off of Bingston Soundara from an odd angle, and the game headed to OT. It seemed as if a shootout was inevitable, but with just under five minutes left in the extra frame, the puck caromed to Trex Hooper at center, and he and Spencer Kern went into the Raptors’ zone on a 2-on-0, and Hooper passed the puck to Kern, who redirected it in to give the Ice Tigers a repeat championship. I have no idea where this ranks among all-time Preds Cup Finals; it might be Top 2. Soundara was masterful in this game; he faced, I’d say, in the range of 40-50 shots. He was the only choice for MVP.

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