Gaylord Entertainment Center

About Gaylord Entertainment Center

Gaylord Entertainment Center is a former name of Bridgestone Arena, used 1999–2006. Bridgestone Arena is an NHL arena in Nashville, Tennessee. It opened in 1996. It was designed by Populous. It seats 17,159 in its hockey layout. Its current tenant is Nashville Predators (NHL), since 1999. By capacity it ranks 30th of 32 current NHL venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 221st oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use and 19th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names. It has also been known as Nashville Arena (1996–1998) and Sommet Center (2007–2009).

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• 221st oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 19th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names
• 7th for most name changes among 26 hockey arenas with 3 or more names
• 27th longest single tenancy (27 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey arenas
• 6th for most name changes among 24 NHL arenas with 3 or more names

Venue Information

Address derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

Capacity by layout

Seating capacity depends on how the building is laid out for each event. Figures are the best sourced claim per layout.

Teams

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

NHL records count overtime and shootout losses as losses.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Address.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 29 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, Capacity, basketball layout.