A Guide to Predators Ticket Sales

With single-game ticket sales set to begin tomorrow, let's take a glance at what the team can do to sell more tickets. Obviously, signing new, young and explosive talent like Matthew Lombardi and seeing a breakout season from a player like Patric Hornqvist helps, but in all honestly there is only an extent to which that can help us sell more tickets. There are two main groups in which we can strengthen our ticket sales:

1.       CURRENT FANS:  The improvement of talent within our organization as well as big free agent signings is the key to success here. The #1 goal is to win a Stanley Cup, and improving the cohesiveness and skill of our team is the only way to get there. If current fans see our team doing better and making the right moves to improve our Cup chances, then we will significantly bolster our ticket sales, which I expect to happen this season.

2.       NEW FANS: This is where the bulk of our new ticket sales are going to come from. This includes people who have never been to a hockey game in their life, and the people who come out of the woodworks to blindly support our team simply because of the face that we are doing well or are in the playoffs. My family moved here four years ago from Los Angeles. We had never been to a hockey game at all, and living in LA made it quite the trek to get to any sort of professional sports game. Nashvillians are already afforded the luxury of having two sports teams in very accessible locations. The key to getting the new fans is just getting them to experience a live hockey game at least once. Everyone I have brought to a hockey for their first time, has come back. No live sport matches the intensity and excitement of hockey.

It doesn't matter who we have in our front office or what kind of players we sign if our fans aren't doing their part. It's up to us, Pred's Nation, to help our team and do our part in bringing new fans to come and experience the joy that is, professional hockey.