A Nashville Predators come the National Hockey League (NHL) team based within Nashville, Tennessee.

Franchise history
the team was known as fallowing a fossil skull of a saber-toothed cat, a coinage out for at least 10,000 years, was obtained around a cave when you took the excavation for the AmSouth Center in August, 1971 in Nashville. A fossil is exclusively a fifth of its form uncovered within Northward Us.

A Predators number 1 took a ice in October 10, 1998, where it misplaced One-0 home to the Florida Panthers.

In the 2003-04 NHL season, the Nashville Predators, under coach Barry Trotz, made their number 1 hike to the playoffs, when the eighth seeded team in the American Conference using a franchise record 91 points. Nonetheless, it were left by using a intimidating project of facing a heavy-favorite & top seeded Detroit Red Wings around the first spherical, one of these days running down in the hard-fought Hexad games. It did, still, win their number one both residence playoff games.

Their better performance before their break year inside 2003-04 was in 2000-01, when it finished by owning Lxxx points, 10th place in the American Conference.

Inside 2005-06, the Predators placed an NHL record by winning their foremost 4 games by 1 goal every (although ii of victims were gunplay triumph, which would own been tie games around former seasons).

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties within minutes

Notable players
Current squad
When of October 11 2005

Goaltenders: 29 - Tomáš Vokoun *30 - Chris Mason

Defensemen: 2 - Dan Hamhuis *3 - Marek Zidlicky *4 - Mark Eaton *20 - Ryan Suter *23 - Jamie Allison *44 - Kimmo Timonen *55 - Danny Markov

Forwards: 9 - Paul Kariya *10 - Martin Erat *11 - David Legwand *12 - Scott Nichol *16 - Darcy Hordichuk *17 - Scott Hartnell *18 - Adam Hall *22 - Greg Johnson *24 - Scott Walker *26 - Steve Sullivan *27 - Randy Robitaille *28 - Jeremy Stevenson *41 - Simon Gamache *94 - Yanic Perreault

Team captains
Tom Fitzgerald 1998-02 (first captain) Greg Johnson 2002 to present

Hall of Famers
none

Not to be forgotten
Mike Dunham Cliff Ronning Sergei Krivokrasov Tom Fitzgerald Sergei Zholtok (died in 2004 when you took NHL lockout) Vladimir Orszagh Denis Arkhipov

Retired Numbers
99 Wayne Gretzky (retired league-wide by the NHL)