“Better to be safe than sorry, so to speak. “When I heard it, it was like, ‘Why not?”‘ Nashville Predators general manager David Poile said.
On Monday the board of governors raised no objections to Foley’s request for the ticket drive, and the consensus seemed to be that there’s no harm, no foul in watching the proceedings unfold in Las Vegas. Deputy commissioner Bill Daly said the league was expecting to meet with Foley’s people next week in New York. What this ticket drive will look like is not crystal clear. “The only other precedent, which was a bad precedent, was somebody went off without permission and did it in the context of moving an existing club that wasn’t going to move,” Bettman said. The league didn’t take too kindly to that. And it’s also different from what former Research In Motion CEO Jim Balsillie did when he listed season tickets for sale for the Nashville Predators, except in Hamilton, Ont.
