Nashville Predators: An Open Letter to Peter Laviolette

What are the odds I run into Peter Laviolette the day after he gets fired? I was lucky enough to have a brief conversation with the former coach.

Coach Peter Laviolette took over the Nashville Predators at the start of the 2014-2015 season, and his reign ended earlier this week. It’s fitting to be leaving the team at the start of a new decade.

I can’t think of a single person who had the impact on Nashville or even the state over the last decade more so than Laviolette.

Laviolette put Nashville on the map and gave us a name in the hockey world, a team that went from no coverage to being the team with the most nationally televised games. He brought us two Central Division banners, a Western…