The Nashville Predators Marketing > Any other teams marketing and you wouldn't believe what they did now!

"OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars" (jakeauern) 04/26/2018 at 11:31 • Filed to: None

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Usually they do a smash car, where people pay to take a sledgehammer to a junker with the proceeds going to the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Well, since the Preds are playing the Atlanta Thrashers Winnipeg Jets, they did something a little nit different. Smash Plane.

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They also did this entertaining bit about sending the Jets back to Atlanta...

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It takes a lot of work and skill to develop the market like they did, but when you see 50,000 people show up OUTSIDE the arena just to be around the game when it’s happening... You’re doing it right.

For Sweden > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 11:31

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That’s not a jet

Chuckles > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 11:32

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I love it, but the fact that they went with a prop plane and not an actual jet bothers me. I get it, cost and all, but it would have been awesome.

For Sweden > Chuckles 04/26/2018 at 11:33

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It’s that Tennessee thinking that helped the Volunteers find a new football coach so easily.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > For Sweden 04/26/2018 at 11:33

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Neither was the C-130 used at the Jets jersey reveal.

For Sweden > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 11:34

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The C-130 has turbine engines though

Ash78, voting early and often > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 11:35

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At least a C-130 has jet engines (turboprops)

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Chuckles 04/26/2018 at 11:36

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https://oppositelock.kinja.com/1825566379

For lack of posting the same picture again. Also, money costs money and the Plaza needs all the space it can get.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > For Sweden 04/26/2018 at 11:36

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It’s not a jet though.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Ash78, voting early and often 04/26/2018 at 11:37

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But that’s still a plane, not a jet.

Rainbow > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 11:37

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I’m still not over losing the Thrashers.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Rainbow 04/26/2018 at 11:38

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My buddy from Atlanta is the saltiest person in the world over it. He gets mad if you even mention the Jets. He won’t watch Hawks basketball because the same ownership sold the the Thrashers.

WilliamsSW > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 11:42

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Needs more jet engines tbh

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > WilliamsSW 04/26/2018 at 11:43

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The jets need to find their own plane to use as a logo and not an American F-16.

Rainbow > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 11:47

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Yeah, I never cared for basketball, but I root against the Hawks out of principle.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Rainbow 04/26/2018 at 11:48

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So it’s not just him haha. Well luckily his fandom switched to the Preds and that’s been working out well recently.

fintail > Rainbow 04/26/2018 at 11:48

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I still laugh at it. 2 NHL teams went bye bye, the second one after mass northern in-migration.

fintail > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 11:49

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That many people from MN and MA moved south? :)

crowmolly > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 11:49

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It’s a CF-18 Hornet

Chuckles > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 11:54

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I’m hoping that people just start referring to them as the Winnipeg Planes.

Ash78, voting early and often > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 11:54

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It takes air in, spins it around with fuel at high RPM, then spits out hot exhaust that helps propel the plane forward using principles of WWII-era German jet engines. The only pedantic difference is that the front blades don’t have a metal ring around them, so you can see them more easily :D

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > fintail 04/26/2018 at 11:54

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Started with Michigan plague in the ‘90s(thanks GM + Saturn) and spread to everyone else since then.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Chuckles 04/26/2018 at 11:55

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I’d be okay with that.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Ash78, voting early and often 04/26/2018 at 11:56

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So you’re saying the Winnipeg Jet are like the Nazis? They sure do like White... HMMMMM

http://shop.nhl.com/Winnipeg_Jets_Whiteout

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > crowmolly 04/26/2018 at 11:59

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Booo... Also just read up on the CF-18 and the false canopy on the bottom is really funny to me for some reason.

fintail > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 12:04

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I didn’t think of the Michigan/GM connection, makes sense. I know about plagues, being in Seattle - first CA, then the rest of the world.

Which might be the reason the NHL will be here - enough critical mass, helped by transplants. Although the first American team to win a Cup was actually in Seattle.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > fintail 04/26/2018 at 12:06

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For the first decade or so, there was a sect of fans we called “PredaWings”. They would wear Predator gold except the games in which Detroit visited. A lot more often then since we were in the same division.

Hopefully the NHL doesn’t give Seattle the stupid freebies they gave to Vegas though...

fintail > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 12:16

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I’ve followed the Wings more than any other team, and they had an amazing run for most of my life. I can understand the allegiance - when you put forth a competent product for a couple decades, people hang on to it.

There will be freebies, no doubt. I support relocation rather than expansion - I think the league is too big as it is.

Chuckles > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 12:17

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As a Flyers fan, I just want to see good hockey at this point. My team went full Philly in the first round, giving you just enough false hope before the eventual and inevitable loss. Never go full Philly.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > fintail 04/26/2018 at 12:20

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I think one more team it put it at an even 32 is fine, then relocation. There is no way a new team should be able to come into the league, win like they have, and probably go to the Western Conference Finals... I love hockey but screw the people that run the NHL. Screw Bettman.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Chuckles 04/26/2018 at 12:20

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Haha RIP. Well you can be a Preds fan now?

fintail > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 12:23

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Yeah, needs to be even, but I still think it is over-expanded. There are markets barely treading water, and it will always be the most niche of the big leagues. I won’t even get started on Bettman, what a weasel. Quite a few owners are less than good, too.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > fintail 04/26/2018 at 12:25

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Preds have been #blessed by a great ownership group after we got rid of the Leper Leopold trying to take them to Hamilton. People ask why the preds hate bettman, but you watch more than a few games, and you will see the NHL screwing over the Preds for bigger markets. It feels like WWE sometimes...

fintail > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 12:31

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Good ownership is definitely luck, still too many of the old school inherited fortune types out there, and they tend to love Bettman. He’s there because of ownership interests. I don’t think any fans care for the weasel, he’s booed at every Cup ceremony or awards show.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > fintail 04/26/2018 at 12:33

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Part of why we have good ownership is because we fought to keep the Preds in Nashville and those who really cared(and had $$$) stepped up. Only been up from there both on and off the ice.

Chuckles > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 12:44

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(Looks at Preds roster for former Flyers)

(Remembers that Scott Hartnell is back in Nashville)

Hell yes.

Really I’m just rooting for the West at this point, but I’d love to see Hartnell raise the Cup.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Chuckles 04/26/2018 at 12:47

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Haha yeah gotta cheer for the old man(and those that deserve it i.e. Fisher, Subban, Yosi, Rinne, Harty)

WilliamsSW > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 12:57

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It’s not like they have a lot of home-grown fighter jets to choose from (though Crowmolly is correct).

This should be a GREAT series - two teams with great stories and fan bases. I would be rooting for both if they weren’t playing each other - - in spite of them being division rivals of my team.

fintail > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 12:59

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I’m assuming/hoping that was private rather than public money.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > WilliamsSW 04/26/2018 at 13:00

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if only the 2 best teams didn’t have to play each other in the 2nd out of 4 rounds of playoffs. Lord Bettman the Clown. You know you want to cheer for the Preds though.

Chuckles > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 13:04

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As someone who has done fantasy hockey for a few years now, I’m also a fan of human highlight reel Filip Forsberg.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > fintail 04/26/2018 at 13:06

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It was Private but the Government has a lot of stake in it. They own the arena and partly subsidize the team and let the Predators operate it. Preds have not done a bad job though. Basically paying the Organization to manage the arena and then taking the tax dollars in and outside the arena as the profit.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/10/18/bridgestone-arena-named-arena-year-international-industry-group/777813001/

WilliamsSW > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 13:06

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Yeah, I will - - but I want whoever wins this series to win the Cup. Vegas winning would be just silly, and I’d be OK with Tampa, but the hell with the other 4 teams still alive.

fintail > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 13:16

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That’s something I think should be entirely private - public monies used to help already-super-rich team owners has been shown to be a tenuous at best responsible use of scarce funds (and a funny thing when it happens in supposedly low tax low regulation areas). But if voters approve it, they get what they get. And if voters don’t approve it, they might still get to pay for it (like with the Seattle baseball stadium).

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Chuckles 04/26/2018 at 13:16

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My is being named Filip. If #3(long story) wasn’t available for my hockey team, I was going to be #9. Lol @ Washington

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > fintail 04/26/2018 at 13:59

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In this case, the City built it before the team would move there. Downtown Nashville used to be a place you would get mugged and the city saw what it could be and holy crap were they right... It wasn’t per se an owner that they built it for, but for the city and Preds took occupancy.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/columnist/dave-ammenheuser/2016/01/22/arena-took-downtown-nashville-eerie-epic/77092054/

fintail > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 14:48

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Interesting, looks like the stars aligned.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > fintail 04/26/2018 at 14:53

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Yep! I think they were trying to allure a NBA or NHL team but just like the football stadium, owned by the city, managed by the team.

fintail > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 15:00

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In 1996, the era of glowing pucks and endless traps, I have to imagine the NHL was but a pipe dream, but it worked. Hopefully the city gets a decent cut and puts it to good use.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > fintail 04/26/2018 at 15:02

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The 4 rounds of playoffs last year brought in nearly 50mil to the city so not bad imo.. I know it all didn’t go to the city but a lot of tax money and local development.

fintail > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/26/2018 at 16:22

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50MM? That’s a bit. As this is such an unusual deal, it’d be interesting to see a third party review of how the numbers pencil out.