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The buzz around Nashville is palpable; fans sporting Predators gear, local bars and restaurants with placards supporting the team and television screens tuned to hockey even when the Predators aren't playing.

BOSTON -- Teddy Purcell was taping his stick in the visitors' dressing room in Nashville on March 3, 2010, when he looked up at the television to find his life had taken a dramatic turn. Undrafted, perhaps under-appreciated and definitely a spare ...