The Nashville Predators announced Friday afternoon that the start time of their game against the Utah Mammoth on Saturday at Bridgestone Arena has been moved up to 12:30 p.m. CST due to incoming inclement weather.<\/p>\n
The game was originally scheduled for 2:30 p.m. CST, but according to the National Weather Service, a mix of freezing rain and sleet is expected to hit Nashville Saturday afternoon into the evening, with it continuing into Sunday night.<\/p>\n
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Nashville is under a Winter Storm Warning until Sunday at 6 p.m. CST.<\/p>\n
Doors will open at 11 a.m. and fans will be offered 50 percent off select concession items inside the arena.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game will also be an official celebration for Predators captain Roman Josi, who played his 1,000th career game in Thursday’s 5-3 win over the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n
This will be the third meeting this season between the Predators and the Mammoth. Nashville lost in overtime to Utah, 3-2, at home on Oct. 11, but defeated the Mammoth, 4-3, in Salt Lake City on Dec. 29.<\/p>\n
The Mammoth are coming off a 5-4 overtime win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday. Utah has won seven of its last eight and four straight.<\/p>\n
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It is in fourth place in the Central Division with 56 points and holds the first Wild Card spot in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n
Nashville is 24-22-4 on the season with 52 points and is a point outside of the final Wild Card spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nashville Predators announced Friday afternoon that the start time of their game against the Utah Mammoth on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[2416,13395,5,2409,231,5281,26421,4,25,56,2410,1501,3154],"class_list":["post-425246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nashville-predators","tag-bridgestone-arena","tag-career-game","tag-hockey","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nashvillepredators","tag-national-weather-service","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-predators","tag-roman-josi","tag-utah-mammoth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115949206995976813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}