Predators' president: 'We're better poised as a franchise ... than we ever have been in the history of the team'

It's pretty clear that Nashville Predators president Sean Henry is pleased with the state of his hockey club.

Henry spoke at Lipscomb University on Wednesday and expressed his extreme confidence with his team now and looking towards the future.

"Where we're sitting right now from a hockey franchise standpoint, we’re better poised as a franchise because of the talent we have and how long they’re locked up, than we ever have been in the history of the team," Henry said. "When you look throughout the league, there's probably not another team that's set up for the next five to eight years to be as consistent as we’re going to be. Hopefully we catch the magic in that run and win the Stanley Cup, but at least compete for it year in and year out."

Henry also gave a hat tip to the great job the team has also done on the business side of things, something which he insists will allow the club to put on a spectacle at this season's NHL All-Star festivities.

"We told the league we're going to do something no one's ever done before in our league," Henry said. "We’re going to take the best of the (Country Music Awards) Festival and the All-Star Game and collide the two. We're going to be inside and outside, we're going to have stages set up throughout town, we're going to have Fan Fair at the Music City Center, we’re going to build an outdoor rink; the whole city is going to connect to do something pretty special."

It looks like Nashville might be becoming more than just the Music City.