As part of an ongoing awareness campaign that Washingtonians first experienced on DC Metro rail commutes in 2010, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced that the “If You See Something, Say Something” PSAs will being playing in NHL games, beginning with the 2012 Winter Classic, complete with in-arena graphics, jumbotron video PSAs, and ...
On the heels of THW’s recent discussion of the burgeoning financial health of the Nashville Predators comes Forbes’s 2011 NHL Team Values estimates. The Music City’s pro hockey franchise saw a 10% jump in value over last year’s estimates, ranking them 25th on the list of 30 NHL franchises. The business-focused outlet estimates the Preds value ...
When I first joined The Hockey Writers earlier this year, number six on my Top 10 Things to Look Forward to in the Nashville Predators 2011-2012 Season was “That one post that turns out to be the worst bit of journalism in history that sets Nashville fans ablaze for weeks.” I don’t presume to speak ...
As the controversial debate over mandatory visors in the NHL continues to build steam, a new paper from Alberto Chong (George Washington University, Washington) and Pascal Restrepo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston) suggests that players who wear visors wind up with more penalties (stick tap: Freakonomics): We provide evidence of the Peltzman effect by tracking ...
X2IMPACT, a Seattle-based company focused on the prevention of Real Sports Brain Injury (rSBI), has partnered with Bite Tech, Inc. to develop mouth guards and headbands that measure the impact of physical collisions during sports and relay the information wirelessly to third parties, like coaches, trainers, and family members. “We are currently in testing phase ...
The Nashville Predators have CEO Jeff Cogen to thank for new data-driven approaches to building impenetrable balance sheets and legions of new fans with strong ticket sales. Any new American hockey market eventually finds itself in a frustrating position: awaiting the generational turn, the time when the fans who were children at the time of ...
The Nashville Predators have finalized their official roster, bringing training camp and the preseason to a close. The press release from the team: NASHVILLE PREDATORS SET OPENING NIGHT ROSTER -Kyle Wilson sent to Milwaukee; Bouillon and Fisher put on IR – Nashville, Tenn. (October 4, 2011) – Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David ...
When Nashville Predators winger Jordin Tootoo voluntarily entered the NHL’s substance abuse program last year, missing 23 games of the 2010-2011 season, this writer feared the worst. After spending several years volunteering with substance abuse patients at mental health facilities in middle Tennessee — seeing the throes of addiction and alcoholism undo marriages, jobs, families ...
A new research paper from the Social Psychological & Personality Science arm of SAGE Publications suggests that hockey players receive more penalties when wearing black sweaters: To examine the color–aggression link, the authors analyzed the last 25 seasons of NHL penalty-minute data (649 seasons from 30 teams collapsed across 52,098 games). When teams wore black ...
Pavel Datsyuk made hockey headlines this week for wearing #24 throughout training camp to honor the untimely passing of his friend Ruslan Salei. But the Nashville Predators are wearing new sticker helmets that say “3 — Together — W.B.” Jeremy K. Gover has photos from the locker room over at the Cellblock.
