The Nashville community showed up in full force for Fisher and the Preds Foundation - as it has throughout the Foundation's events this year. Notable attendees at Wednesday's shoot included comedian Henry Cho, former NFL quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, former Vanderbilt All-American basketball player Shan Foster, former Preds players like J-P Dumont and Martin Erat, and of course, a number of the Preds broadcasting team members including Hal Gill, Chris Mason and Terry Crisp.
"It's great when you have the city we're in - we're the Volunteer State - but when you have guys like Mike Fisher and his wife, Carrie Underwood, putting on a thing like this every year - it does nothing but raise money for charity," Crisp said. "This is the most giving city I've ever been in... When you realize how many charities there are in the city of Nashville and yet every one of them, when they have an event, they get full support. That tells you what this city is all about."
Along with the 100-bird course clay shooting tournament, guests were treated to some Hunt Brothers Pizza for lunch and Puckett's for dinner. There were a number of intriguing items up for silent auction as well, including various Pekka Rinne memorabilia, a number of different signed pucks and plenty of Fisher-signed items, too.
"The team does such a good job to get guys involved. This community has so many great causes, so many other events like this golf events, you name it - that stuff's contagious," Fisher said. "That's why this community, Nashville and Middle Tennessee, is so special because there's so many of these events, and I'm glad to call this my home and to be part of the Preds Foundation and do stuff like this. It's really a blessing for me."
The former Preds centerman continues to build a deeper partnership with the Preds Foundation and alongside the Forsberg Clinic, the Week of Giving and many others, the Fisher Clay Shoot is becoming a staple in the Foundation's calendar.
"This is a fun event in that it's [Fisher] and his friends and some of his corporate partners and buddies," King said. "It's Preds supporters and corporate partners, its Foundation supporters and sponsors and for everyone to come together to raise money for the Preds foundation and for initiatives that Mike Fisher and the Preds Foundation want to support - it's just a great day."
The CATCHIN' DEERS Mike Fisher Celebrity Clay Shoot presented by Cooper Steel silent auction will be live online through next week, and fans can text "PREDS" to 76278 for a chance to bid on a number of items.