hen the NHL expanded to Nashville in 1998, some wondered
whether hockey would take off in Music City. The massive
and passionate crowd of Predators fans gathered along the
city's famed Broadway strip during last season's Stanley Cup run was
definite proof it has.
Blake Geoffrion, the first Tennessean to play in the NHL, remembers
how hockey fever spread across the entire Volunteer State last spring.
"You had the entire city and state watching the Predators and ...
people gathering in the streets and on Broadway," said the Brentwood
native, who played two seasons with the Predators before his career
was cut short by a head injury in 2012.
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Twenty Years After The
Predators' Arrival, Hockey
Continues To Hit All The
Right Notes In Nashville
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By Debra Rughoo
