June 21, 2007
Tennessean skipping NHL draft?
The entire hockey universe will be focused on Columbus, Ohio, tomorrow and Friday for the NHL draft. As scores of hockey reporters, team owners and executives, league officials and fans converge on the home of the Blue Jackets, The Tennessean reportedly will not have a presence there.
This is despite the fact that Southwest Airlines offers a $65 roundtrip fare from Nashville to Columbus and, oh yeah, our beloved Nashville Predators may very well be sold to a Canadian billionaire and shipped up north within a year or two.
With nearly everyone with any power and influence in hockey conveniently camped out a mere 379 miles from Broadway, wouldn’t it make sense for someone on the paper’s staff to cover the event and talk to insiders who may be hearing more rumors about the Predators’ future?
There’s a rumor that Richard Lawson of Nashville Post may visit Columbus because of the power brokers who will be present at the draft. Nashville Post has been all over the Preds sale developments since breaking the news in May, so I think this is an encouraging sign.
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Southern Beale said,
June 22, 2007 @ 6:04 am
This is precisely why we may be losing our team. Our clueless local media and businesses refuse to support hockey in Nashville. Maybe they don’t know how to support the team. Here’s a clue: when the Predators win a game that puts them in the #1 spot in the NHL, your lead story should NOT be some high school basketball game. (Yes, this happened last winter).
I will now go bang my head on my desk.
Paul Nicholson said,
June 22, 2007 @ 11:21 pm
Amen to both of you. Just amazing.
Check out this post to see at least one person from Nashville that made the trip. That man is my hero.