The Red Wings eliminated the Nashville Predators in six games in the first round of the playoffs, which led to a second round matchup with the Calgary Flames.

During a November 21, 2005, game against the Nashville Predators, defenseman Jiri Fischer suffered a heart arrhythmia and collapsed on the bench.

The Wings cruised to the playoffs, where they faced the Nashville Predators.

They were defeated in five games by the Nashville Predators.

In 1997 Nashville was awarded an NHL expansion team which was subsequently named the Nashville Predators.

* Pete Weber ( broadcaster ) commentator for the Nashville Predators

The 1998 – 99 season was marred by a life-threatening injury sustained by Eric Lindros on April Fools ' Day during a game against the Nashville Predators, a season-ending injury later diagnosed as a collapsed lung.

Ilya Kovalchuk scored eight goals in the first seven games, including two hat tricks, one in a 7 – 2 rout of the Chicago Blackhawks and another in a come-from-behind victory against the Nashville Predators.

In 1998 – 99, with the addition of the Nashville Predators to the league, the NHL realigned their divisions and the Colorado Avalanche were put in the new Northwest Division.

A 4 – 2 loss against the Nashville Predators on April 7, with Peter Forsberg assisting the game-winning goal scored by Paul Kariya, knocked Colorado out of the playoff race.

While two other teams in Tennessee ( Tennessee Titans and Nashville Predators ) in the four major North American sports leagues ( NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL ) play in Nashville, the Grizzlies are the only team currently to play in Memphis.

They ended up losing 54 games that year — more than the expansion Nashville Predators.

They defeated the Nashville Predators in six games in the first round, before defeating the third seeded Canucks for the second straight year, again in six games.

On March 31, 2012, the Blackhawks clinched the playoffs with a 5-4 win over the Nashville Predators.

The Atlanta Thrashers and Nashville Predators both had their full rosters protected because they were the two newest teams, only being in existence for one and two years, respectively.

Even though the Ducks had a great season led by Perry, Hiller, Selanne, Visnovsky, and Getzlaf, they would end up losing in the first round of the playoffs to the 5th seeded Nashville Predators.

The Nashville Predators are a professional ice hockey team based in Nashville, Tennessee.

The team was known as the Nashville Nighthawks in the 1996-97 season and changed monikers to the Ice Flyers in 1997-98, then folded when the Predators began play.

* Anthony Bitetto-Hockey Player Drafted in the 6th round 168th overall by the Nashville Predators in the 2010 NHL Draft

* Grant Lewis, NHL ice hockey player ( Nashville Predators )

* Jack Hillen, NHL ice hockey defenceman, currently plays for the Nashville Predators.

At the time of his appointment, his destination Nashville had been evacuated by the Confederates after the fall of Ft. Donelson, and the government which he was displacing had fled to Memphis.

Chester Burton " Chet " Atkins ( June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001 ) was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.

This became known as the Nashville sound which Atkins said was a label created by the media attached to a style of recording done during that period to keep country ( and their jobs ) viable.

Phelps continued to urge Brooks to return to Nashville, which he did.

Nashville has a consolidated city – county government which includes six smaller municipalities in a two-tier system.

Relative humidity in Nashville averages 83 % in the mornings and 60 % in the afternoons, which is considered moderate for the Southeastern United States.

Numerous music clubs and honky-tonk bars can be found in downtown Nashville, especially the area encompassing Lower Broadway, Second Avenue, and Printer's Alley, which is often referred to as " the District ".

Radio station WMOT-FM in nearby Murfreesboro has aided significantly in the recent revival of the city's jazz scene, as has the non-profit Nashville Jazz Workshop, which holds concerts and classes in a renovated building in the north Nashville neighborhood of Germantown.

* The country music industry, which has strong ties to Nashville, Tennessee

In the summer of 2011, The Sundance Channel ( United States ) announced that Sherrié and her friend Shane Stevens would be on the second season of Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, which will be filmed in Nashville and features women and their gay best friends.

Campbell later took Twain to Nashville to record some demos, which Twain found particularly difficult to finance.

Nashville, home of the Titans, is also the midway point of the Atlanta-St. Louis highway corridor, which contains the entirety of Interstate 24, and uses other highways to complete the route.

There is no official headquarters of church although many of its biggest administrative offices are in Nashville, Tennessee and are physically located near Vanderbilt University ( which has historic Methodist ties but is no longer associated with the church ).

Jennings later stated, " Pills were the artificial energy on which Nashville ran around the clock ".

In 1975, Altman made Nashville, which had a strong political theme set against the world of country music.

In March 2011, two breeding females at the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere in Nashville, Tennessee gave birth to three cubs, which are being raised by zookeepers.

This makes Memphis the second largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed only by metropolitan Nashville, which has overtaken Memphis in recent years.

Through the RCNL, Howard led campaigns to expose brutality by the Mississippi state highway patrol and to encourage blacks to make deposits in the black-owned Tri-State Bank of Nashville which, in turn, gave loans to civil rights activists who were victims of a " credit squeeze " by the White Citizens ' Councils.

Haley actually recorded this song on five occasions ( a Spanish language version for Orfeón of Mexico City and an English version for the US label Newtown Records ( both in 1964 ), two live versions for Buddah Records recorded in New York in 1969 ( neither of which were released for 25 years ), and once more in Nashville, Tennessee for the Swedish Sonet Records label in 1970 ).

Following six months of study at the office of Judge James Trimble, Houston passed the bar examination in Nashville, after which he opened a legal practice in Lebanon, Tennessee.