The Nashville Predators have finished painting the plane they're going to smash apart

BarDown Staff

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The Nashville "Smashville" Predators are one of the quickest growing markets in the NHL. Last postseason the Preds rode their 8th place seeding all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they ended up losing to the defending champion Pittsburgh Penguins. While the loss stung, the fan atmosphere created at Bridgestone Arena is a lasting one that won't be going away anytime soon.

One element of the Preds' home games that has become a fan favourite is the Smash Car. The idea is pretty simple. Smashville citizens (Nashville fans) basically just try their best to wreck a car that has a paint job themed after their playoff opposition.

Now they're playing the Winnipeg Jets, and they decided to acknowledge this by using a different vehicle for their baseball bat destruction - a plane - and the paint job is officially finished.

I'm so impressed by
A - the Preds Getting a Plane as a Smash "Car"
B - This AMAZING paint job
Go #Preds pic.twitter.com/hSbvZg22mP
— RJH (@CanadasPredsFan) April 26, 2018

Hey Shaun Aston here is our Smash plane in place of the usual Smash car and it's going to be epic!! The Jets are going down!! #letsgopreds pic.twitter.com/8KGZjYdaT5
— p-Robert Warren (@gcgrwarren) April 26, 2018

That's right, it even features an Atlanta Thrashers logo on it. Either way, it doesn't appear like the Jets are letting it bug them very much.

Awwwww… what a cute lil skipper plane. 😁

Guessing one of these weren't in the budget...✈️ pic.twitter.com/VaXlM5zr3a
— Winnipeg Jets (@NHLJets) April 25, 2018

The @NHLJets owner David Thomson is the 32nd wealthiest person in the world, so I think they will be okay. pic.twitter.com/3oapmCJ1SO
— Lionel Ewbank (@lewbank17) April 25, 2018

(H/T Twitter/@gcgrwarren)