And Shea Weber thought he hit the jackpot when an arbitrator awarded him a $7.5 million contract for this season!
The big news on the business scene today in Nashville has one of the area's flagship healthcare companies, HealthSpring, getting bought out for $55 a share (a healthy premium over the $40 range it had traded in recently). It just so happens that the chairman and CEO of HealthSpring is a major part of the Nashville Predators ownership group, so might this news ultimately impact the team as well?
Let's find out after the jump...
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Nashville Predators News
Will the Preds get Fritch's riches? | nashvillepost.com
Nashville Predators co-owner Herb Fritch made headlines today as HealthSpring, the corporation he founded, was bought by insurance giant Cigna. J.R. Lind writes that Fritch's take could exceed $150 million (at the least, his 2.2M shares are worth $125M), leading to natural speculation as to whether some of that might money might shore up the team's financial condition, possibly leading to a majority ownership stake for Fritch. Heck, they might even be able to afford a hockey operations analyst, someone familiar with advanced stats...
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Around the Wide Wide World of Hockey
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Dollars and sense done in the Chargers, and have had an impact elsewhere in college hockey, too.
Statement from NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly - The Dallas Morning News
It looks like the roadblocks have been cleared for Tom Gaglardi to take ownership of the Stars.
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No Crosby? No Malkin? No problem so far...
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Biz Nasty gettin' busy with a porn star? I don't recall seeing him brag about that on Twitter.
Silver Lining- Aaron Johnson - The Cannon
Aaron Johnson couldn't crack the Predators lineup last season, but he's been a pleasant surprise for Columbus so far.
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Forcing season ticket holders to buy tickets to the Alumni game and an AHL team if they want to buy Winter Classic tickets? Yeah, that sucks.
The Quiet Room: What’s up with whiplash? - Backhand Shelf
More than you probably wanted to know about whiplash in hockey, but it's cool stuff!
Shot Distance Allowed as a Team Talent - Arctic Ice Hockey
Another argument for the notion that the quality of shots (getting closer to the net, etc.) is not a significant difference-making talent between teams at the NHL level.
Penguins Hockey – The Last Days of the Igloo - The Hockey Writers
The walls are about to come tumbling down in Pittsburgh.
Secondary scoring still a concern for Sens - Silver Seven
Call these guys the anti-Predators.