Nashville, Tenn. (February 11, 2020) - This Thursday, Feb. 13, the Nashville Predators Foundation empowered by SmileDirectClub (the "Predators Foundation") will host Hockey Has Heart Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Awareness Night in support of the cardiac research and support that takes place at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. CHD, which impacts 40,000 newborns in the United States per year, results when the heart, or blood vessels near the heart, don't develop normally before birth.
Prior to the 7 p.m. CT matchup between the Predators and Islanders, joined by two young CHD patients, country music super star Luke Bryan will perform the National Anthem. When Luke and his wife Caroline Boyer Bryan lost their niece, Sadie Brett Boyer, to complications of CHD in 2017, they came together with Brett's parents, Ellen and Bo Boyer, to create
The Brett Boyer Foundation
in her honor. Since the foundation's inception, the Bryan and Boyer family has been committed to raising awareness and funding research surrounding CHD.
Luke Bryan to Perform Anthem at Preds CHD Awareness Night
More than 200 Congenital Heart Defect warriors and their families to receive star treatment in Smashville