PREDATORS STADIUM SERIES JERSEY PLUS

On Saturday night, it will be Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley during the first intermission, plus many more artists in the Broadway entertainment district, outside the stadium and inside the stadium before and during the game. One night it might be Alice Cooper with Vince Gill. You don't know who's going to pop up on the band stage. You just never know what's going to happen in Smashville. 'It just describes everything's a little bit bigger, a little bit more irreverent,' Henry said. They've used Smashville as their return address and called season-ticket holders residents of Smashville, because Smashville isn't just Nashville.

The Predators have put old cars in front of Bridgestone Arena, painted the logos and nicknames of opponents on them, and invited the fans to smash 'em up. 'We've totally embraced it with a lot of things we've done over the years, and we've got the cherry on the top this year by having it on our jerseys.' It just seemed to be a perfect fit to Nashville, Smashville. 'We're in the South, and there's also a lot of NASCAR, and football is huge here. 'It's just one of those things that developed out of hockey being a hard-hitting sport, Nashville, Smashville,' said David Poile, the Predators general manager since they joined the NHL in 1998-99. The 'SMASHVILLE' jerseys are something new and proudly display the Predators' adopted identity. They were inspired by the Dixie Flyers, who played in Nashville in the Eastern Hockey League from 1962-71. To illustrate the difference, consider the jerseys the Predators wore against the Dallas Stars in the 2020 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic at Cotton Bowl Stadium. 'It was going to be a future-forward look at the sport of hockey.' 'We looked at it really through a progressive lens,' NHL executive vice president of marketing Brian Jennings said.

The field designs would not be winter wonderlands. The uniforms would feature large letters and numbers to be seen by fans in a stadium. The League decided not to go retro for the Stadium Series. The events were so successful that more markets wanted to host, and the NHL expanded its portfolio with the Stadium Series in 2014. When the NHL started staging outdoor events with the Heritage Classic in 2003 and the Winter Classic in 2008, the idea was to romanticize hockey's roots. The bold look fits the spirit of the Stadium Series and the theme of this event in particular: Smashville meets Music City. But they also stacked 'SMASH' on top of 'VILLE,' used a playful font inspired by letterpress music posters and placed a secondary guitar-pick logo over the heart. Oh, they emblazoned 'SMASHVILLE' across the chest, all right, using a city nickname on an NHL jersey for the first time. Pratto made sure not to miss it, as the Red Sox suffered their eighth walk-off loss of the season.'The one that kind of kept jumping out at us was the 'SMASHVILLE' being emblazoned across the chest,' Predators president Sean Henry said.Īfter playing with ideas and combining concepts, the NHL, adidas and the Predators settled on the final product for the outdoor game against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Nissan Stadium on Saturday (7:30 p.m. But Pratto made Whitlock work, extending the at-bat with two foul balls before getting a pitch he could do damage with. Whitlock retired the first eight batters he faced with relative ease, as he threw only 27 pitches in 2 2/3 innings of work.

Whitlock had no problem setting down the Royals lineup after he took over in the seventh inning for Red Sox starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi. The guy made a good freakin’ swing, but that was a terrible pitch by me. “I’m pissed off,” Whitlock told reporters, as seen on NESN postgame coverage. The usually even-keeled Whitlock let his frustrations be known after the game about the costly pitch he threw. The talented right-hander left a 3-2 change-up up in the zone and Kansas City Royals first baseman Nick Pratto made him pay, belting a walk-off solo shot to center field to hand the Red Sox a crushing 5-4 defeat at Kauffman Stadium. Whitlock was cruising along too, but then things turned disastrous in a blink. The Boston Red Sox had to like the situation they were in Saturday night, needing just one more strike to force extra innings with their best reliever on the mound in Garrett Whitlock. Red Sox Notes: Garrett Whitlock Laments Costly Pitch In Walk-Off Loss

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