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Nashville Predators

NHL expansion team based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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The team's logo was inspired by a saber-toothed cat skeleton found beneath downtown Nashville in 1971.[1][2]

Life and work

In late 1995, rumors circulated that the New Jersey Devils would relocate to Nashville after winning the Stanley Cup.[3] Nashville offered a $20 million relocation bonus to any team that would relocate.[3] The Predators' first win came on October 13, 1998, against the Carolina Hurricanes.[4][5] A formal presentation to the NHL for an expansion franchise was made in January 1997 by a group headed by Craig Leipold, a businessman from Wisconsin.[6]

Because Nashville was the only city among the four with a finished arena, its team was the first to start playing.[7] David Poile was appointed as the first general manager of the franchise by Leipold on July 9, 1997.[8]

What the cited sources add

The Deseret News reported that Mike Richter was selected by Nashville in the expansion draft but remained with the New York Rangers as an unrestricted free agent.[9] The NHL.com "Jerseys & Logos" page states that the saber-toothed tiger logo was co-designed by JDK Design and Dye, Van Mol & Lawrence.[2] The "Mustard Cat" third jersey debuted on November 21, 2001.[2] WPLN reported that the original saber-toothed tiger fossil went missing sometime before 1990.[10]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Nashville Predators" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Nashville Predators: Why the Saber-tooth Tiger is Perfect", Predlines, August 10, 2016; Ingram, "Specialists to Study Cave Bones", Nashville Tennessean, October 2, 1971, p. 7; Guilday, "Sabertooth Cat, Smilodon Floridanus (Leidy), and Associated Fauna From a Tennessee Cave (40DV40), the First American Bank Site.", Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science, July 1977, p. 84–94 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. "Jerseys & Logos", NHL.com. facts only, no text reused. nhl.com
  3. Wikipedia, "Nashville Predators" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: MacFarquhar, "HOCKEY; Fans Caught Between Devils and Nashville", The New York Times, June 29, 1995; Sandomir, "1995 N.H.L. PLAYOFFS; Devils Reject Offer on New Lease", The New York Times, June 8, 1995; Sandomir, "HOCKEY; Devils and New Jersey Call Truce and Strike Deal", The New York Times, July 14, 1995; "HOCKEY; Nashville Still Seeks Team", The New York Times, July 14, 1995 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Short, "Nashville Predators now NHL's second-fastest franchise to 1,000 wins", WSMV.com, January 16, 2025. facts only, no text reused. wsmv.com
  5. Wikipedia, "Nashville Predators" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Allen, "Expansion draft flashback: Golden Knights seek their version of Tomas Vokoun", USA Today, June 21, 2017; "Richter's a Ranger; Brown's back in Motown", Deseret News, July 15, 1998; "IN NASHVILLE, PREDATORS DEBUT WITH A LOSS", The Washington Post, October 10, 1998; Short, "Nashville Predators now NHL's second-fastest franchise to 1,000 wins", WSMV.com, January 16, 2025; "1998-99 Nashville Predators Schedule and Results", Hockey-reference.com; "1999-00 Nashville Predators Schedule and Results", Hockey-reference.com (we also rea en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Nashville Predators" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Litsky, "Cities Line Up To Join The N.H.L", The New York Times, January 14, 1997 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Nashville Predators" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "N.H.L. Names 4 Cities For Its New Franchises", The New York Times, June 18, 1997 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Nashville Predators" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gulitti, "Poile, only general manager in Predators history, to retire after season", NHL.com, February 26, 2023; "Nashville Predators Timeline", WSMV (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. "Richter's a Ranger; Brown's back in Motown", Deseret News, July 15, 1998. facts only, no text reused. deseret.com
  10. Gilbert, "The case of the missing fang and the meteoric rise of Nashville’s beloved hockey team", WPLN.org, April 1, 2022. facts only, no text reused. wpln.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Nashville Predators (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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