The Business of Hockey

Nashville Predators Ticket News A Mixed Bag

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I admit: I really, really hate when someone from another NHL city knocks the Nashville Predators for their spotty record on paid attendance. The conclusion is always, “TRASHVILLE ISN’T A HOCKEY…

LL Cool H: Washington’s Club Scarlet Proves Ladies Love Ice Hockey

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The Capitals’ Hockey and Heels events are what glue gun goddess Martha Stewart would call “a good thing”. They have always provided a strong turnout and a nice bit of change for the club’s charitable foundation. After all, what’s so positive about robust sales, positive press and feelgood moments for women who love The Kremlin on the Potomac? Everything.

What Does The Shea Weber Deal Mean For Nashville?

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In the Coen Brothers’ 1987 film, “Raising Arizona”, an ex-convict named Hy is given marching orders by his wife to get some diapers for their newly stolen (by them) baby. While he is in the store, Hy has a lapse and goes from being a doting adoptive dad to his former identity as a petty thief. Pulling a pair of pantyhose over his head, he hitches up his trousers, musters up every last reserve of inner badass energy and walks up to the clerk where he demands all of the cash and a package of Huggies. There is a pause as the clerk eyes him coolly and then drawls, “Son, you got a panty on your head.”

This scene stands as an apt metaphor for Predators GM David Poile’s summer.

Predators GM David Poile Faces the Press

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by Jas Faulkner, Nashville Correspondent In the hallway where Predators GM David Poile was scheduled to meet the press, the general energy was business as usual.  Just a few feet…

Peter Chiarelli: Boston’s Unsung Hero?

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By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent It can be easy to forget what condition the Boston Bruins franchise was in when Peter Chiarelli was hired as general manager in July of…

Nashville’s Summer of Amber and Aspic

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by Jas Faulkner, Nashville Correspondent The waiting, the waiting… At the postseason press gathering in May, Shea Weber was quoted as saying something to the effect that he wanted to…