{"id":24621,"date":"2014-10-17T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nashville-to-host-2016-nhl-all-star-game\/"},"modified":"2014-10-17T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T12:49:00","slug":"nashville-to-host-2016-nhl-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nashville-to-host-2016-nhl-all-star-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville to host 2016 NHL All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Nashville Predators will host the 2016 NHL All-Star Game, commissioner Gary Bettman announced Friday at Bridgestone Arena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nashville knows how to showcase stars, put on great events and deliver first- rate entertainment and is a great place to visit. So where better to host our 2016 All-Star celebration than in Nashville?&#8221; Bettman said. &#8220;The spotlight will shine on our All-Star players and on the wonderful connection that has developed between Music City and hockey. Without question, Nashville is an ideal location for all the All-Star fun and excitement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 All-Star Game festivities will be held at Bridgestone Arena from Jan. 30-31. Nashville has never hosted the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hosting the 2016 NHL All-Star Game is a huge win for Nashville,&#8221; said Nashville Mayor Karl Dean. &#8220;We have hosted big sporting events like this, and we know it benefits our city in many ways, particularly our downtown and hospitality businesses. I look forward to showcasing the enthusiastic base of hockey supporters in our region and all that Music City has to offer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The All-Star Game hasn&#8217;t taken place since 2012 in Ottawa due to the lockout- shortened 2012-13 season and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus is the host for this year&#8217;s All-Star weekend, set for Jan. 24-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Nashville Predators will host the 2016 NHL All-Star Game, commissioner Gary Bettman announced Friday at Bridgestone Arena. &#8220;Nashville knows how to showcase stars, put on great events and deliver first- rate entertainment and is a great place to visit. So where better to host our 2016 All-Star celebration than in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}