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They've built a winner on and off the ice and the restrictions are the only way for that to sustain this, to the joy of their fan base and to the chagrin of others. Nashville may not always be the "It" city and if the Preds keep allowing half their tickets to be sold to out of towners, when it isn't the "It" city, that stadium will be empty because the fan base will be turned off and lack of funds will not allow for a superior product on the ice. No fans = no money = no lucrative salaries to elite talent. That is extremely difficult to do when Nashville is such a popular travel destination and with half your tickets being scooped up by scalpers around the country for resale to opponents.Īs a lifelong Blackhawks fan who used to pay 10 bucks to see garbage like Kyle Calder, Mark Bell and Tyler Arnason and do their best to stay upright while playing to a half empty stadium for nearly 20 years, I get it. Yes in theory the team should tourism to the city with other fan bases but the ownership has spent the last 6-7 years trying to build and solidify their own long term fan base. The rules (new back then) infuriated me and my many family and friends who used to come visit, but in hindsight I understand them completely.

Even after the stipulations were put into place, it was still about 60/40 until I moved in 2013. That stadium would be 2/3 Blackhawks fans for nearly every single game I went to, same for other well traveled teams like the Leafs, Bruins, etc. In all fairness to the Preds ownership, I lived in Nashville at the height of their mediocrity (late 2000's, early 2010's) and the rise of my Blackhawks short-lived dynasty.