Predators trying to keep rival fans out of their arena during playoffs
The Nashville Predators only want fans in gold at the Bridgestone Arena during the playoffs and they're doing what they can to make sure that happens.
Predators president Sean Henry is taking measures to ensure that tickets cannot be sold to rival fans for the playoffs.
The Predators will begin selling playoff tickets on Saturday at Kroger stores in Tennessee and on Sunday at the Bridgestone Arena box office. On Monday, tickets will be available online, but only to people who live within the team's TV market.
"We want to fill the building with gold, filled by our fans, through our fans and for our fans. Period," Henry told Dave Ammenheuser of The Tennessean. "Just like any team should want their home arena to be."
With the restriction limits, it will be difficult to fill the arena with anything but Predators fans.
The stunt is similar to one the Predators pulled in 2013, when Nashville launched a campaign titled "Keep the Red Out" which involved changing ticket policies to make it more difficult for Chicago Blackhawks fans - who regularly traveled to Nashville for games between the two teams - to purchase them.
If the playoffs ended today, the Predators would square off against the Minnesota Wild, although the Blackhawks are a possibility as well.