Ten ways the Nashville Predators can entice fans back after the lockout

Earlier today, both Pierre LeBrun from ESPN and Greg Wyshynski from Yahoo!’s Puck Daddy wrote interesting opinion columns about how the NHL could lure apathetic fans back to their loving graces if and when the lockout ends this season and the NHL produces a 40-48 game schedule that stretches into June/July. Their topics covered the league as a whole, both DEFINITELY worth the read, but you know each individual team is going to have to work hard to bring the fans back to the game, especially smaller-market teams. Nashville, albeit enjoying recent success and gate revenue with the personal attendance records they’ve set over the past two seasons, is definitely included in the small-market team discussion. While the Predators have been doing a great job DURING the lockout in terms of fan retention, they’re have already been many who have “hung up their skates” in terms of being season ticket holders and no doubt the casual fan may already be lost. So how do the Predators re-capture th...