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Jets fans will have to do some begging if they want tickets to games in Nashville

By C.L. Kohuss

WINNIPEG, MB - MARCH 25: Ben Chiarot #7 of the Winnipeg Jets and Miikka Salomaki #20 of the Nashville Predators battle in front of goaltender Connor Hellebuyck #37 during third period action at the Bell MTS Place on March 25, 2018 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The Jets defeated the Preds 5-4 in the shootout. (Photo by Jonathan Kozub/NHLI via Getty Images)
WINNIPEG, MB - MARCH 25: Ben Chiarot #7 of the Winnipeg Jets and Miikka Salomaki #20 of the Nashville Predators battle in front of goaltender Connor Hellebuyck #37 during third period action at the Bell MTS Place on March 25, 2018 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The Jets defeated the Preds 5-4 in the shootout. (Photo by Jonathan Kozub/NHLI via Getty Images) /
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The Nashville Predators be facing the Winnipeg Jets in Round 2 of the NHL playoffs, and Jets fans aren’t allowed in Nashville, apparently.

The Nashville Predators have decided that they already don’t like the Winnipeg Jets or their fans. News has surfaced that the Preds are restricting access to home game tickets by way of only allowing those with a local address to buy them:

We’ve seen this tactic before down at the local library. Now it’s seeping its way into hockey land. In fact, the Vegas Golden Knights pleaded with their fans for something similar in their first-round sweep of the Los Angeles Kings. Now Nashville is forcing fans the world ’round to go the vintage route: scalping (which is illegal, don’t do that).

Honestly, this doesn’t seem to be something that should face much opposition. Anything for a home ice advantage, right? Though we have to wonder why Nashville, of all places. Aren’t its fans the most rabid in the NHL at the moment? We can’t imagine they wouldn’t swallow those tickets whole immediately to begin with, along with maybe too many doses of catfish for flavor.

As the link also states, Nashville has done this before. It restricted tickets in last year’s Stanley Cup Final against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Tampa Bay Lightning did it as well a few seasons back. We can only imagine the comeback Winnipeg will conjure up for its home games.

For clarification, and for any Preds fans who may be looking to road trip it from outside of Tennessee, “local” means anyone within the television viewing area.

Jets fans, that means you’ve just made some new friends in Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and/or Georgia, yes? Don’t be surprised to find a rotting fish in your mailbox instead of hockey tickets, though.

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