Season Ticket Holders

Yes, folks, it is a dream come true! After ten years of hard-core hockey fan-ship, we are at last official season ticket holders! We could not be more excited! (Note all the exclamation marks!)

I have to admit that we're not really "Predators fans," however. Not that we don't like the the Predators, because we do, but we're bigger fans of the Detroit Redwings -- our home team during our years of hockey addiction. When the Red Wings come for a visit this year, we're probably going to wear our Red Wings jerseys to the games. But for the rest of the games, we can wholeheartedly support the Predators -- our new home team.

Although we are big Wings fans, the bad thing about the Red Wings is that they're so popular (what with their recent Stanley Cup wins and all) so it's difficult and expensive to ever see them live. In addition, we lived over an hour from the Joe Louis Arena, so it was quite a time commitment to go to a game, especially on a weeknight. We attended two Red Wings games in "Hockeytown," but were never able to get season tickets to the games because they were either not available or so expensive that they were out of our price range. And adding an extra two hours of driving to a three-hour night at the arena was pretty unappealing. When we moved to Nashville, one of our first realizations was, "If hockey teams ever end their strike, I bet we could actually get season tickets!" In addition, we live less than 15 minutes from the Gaylord Entertainment Center, so the drive time is nil. Like clockwork, the strike ended, the Predators lowered their season ticket prices, and suddenly we were official season ticket holders!

We went to the arena tonight to select our seats. Based on your history with the Predators organization (how many years you have been a season ticket holder or how soon you put your deposit down for seats this year), you get to be the first, middle, or last group of people to go in and pick seats. Our select-a-seat time was 7:00 p.m., and we felt like there were still a lot of seats left to choose from when we got to the arena. We had a certain section in mind because one of the Predators employees had suggested it to us when we visited the arena for fan appreciation day -- the 313 to 319 section of seats is at the 300-level price range but actually at the same height as the 200-level bowl. In other words, you get closer seats for a less expensive price.

We sat in seats all over the arena, and ended up selecting the following location: section 314, row B, seats 7 & 8. You can check out our seats on the seat chart here. The Preds attack twice on our end, which will be great!

We tried out two seats in row 1 & 2, right behind the Pred's bench. We almost lost our heads and got them because they were such great seats! But, in the end, logic prevailed when we realized that one of those seats was the same price as two of our seats. Maybe next year...

We are going to commit ourselves to being super hockey fans this year and attending all of the home games. It's quite a commitment because there are a lot of them, but we're going to try to "do this up right" this year in case this is our only year as season ticket holders (it is a lot of money, after all).

See you at the arena!