• The Nashville Predators have drawn their series against the Jets even at three games a piece after a 0-4 shutout Monday night in Winnipeg that surprised most of the hockey world. The stakes for tonight’s Game 7 (7 p.m., NBCSN) remain the same for the Preds: win, or the season is over.
• If you think the Predators and Jets should have played last night, you can blame and/or thank Justin Timberlake for that. Let’s just hope the ice is in good shape.
• WKRN has an interview with the guy who coined the term “Smashville” and entered it into a contest more than a decade ago. You will hear it at least a half dozen times on tonight’s broadcast.
• While some of the other NHL playoff series had weird story lines (some guy kept licking other players), this one has had a recurring one that keeps being brought up: is the crowd noise at Bridgestone Arena authentic, or some audio trickery? Pretty sure tonight will provide an answer.
• Former Metro Councilmember Loniel Greene was convicted of coercing a witness stemming from an attempt to stop a woman from testifying against his cousin in an assault case. He faces 2 to 4 years in prison.
• Nashville got a new “dockless” scooter company on Monday, only to see it shut down on Wednesday because the “leave it anywhere” scooters were being left — well — anywhere, blocking the right of way. Multiple council members have said they are working with the company to resolve the issues.
• The Nashville Scene spoke with more than 15 transit stakeholders to piece together a picture of why the “Let’s Move Nashville” transit referendum failed.
• An inmate working downtown stole a truck and took a 100-mile joyride before being caught by police Tuesday. He was arrested without incident.
• At least one Metro Council member thinks that we can begin to resolve our traffic woes by going skyward with aerial gondolas that could move up to 10 people at at a time. Look, we just report what’s in the news.
• That said, it is not the only proposal floating around out there, with a gubernatorial candidate saying we should have a double-decker Interstate system.
• An already planned (and budgeted) project to renovate the 10 year-old downtown bus station will begin soon with new bathrooms, signage, paint and public art. The project is expected to take about nine months.
• Y’all, there’s a shortage of bartenders in Nashville right before a summer season when we really need bartenders. ?
• Sixteen construction workers died in Nashville during the previous two calendar years according to a report, and not all such cases were accurately reported to state and local officials. Ten of those killed are said to have not been wearing proper safety equipment.
• There are gigantic, inflatable bunnies at Cheekwood if you’re in to that kind of thing. ?
• Nashville has a history of not interrupting celebrities going about their day, but what about when Steven Tyler of the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame band “Aerosmith” tells everyone to catch him if they can? Fans followed clues through various locales to find him in midtown.
• There were only 845 people who have cast ballots in the May 24 Nashville mayoral election through the first four days of early voting. The number of neighborhood polling places expands to ten tomorrow.

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