Mike Fisher always planned on settling down in Nashville, and today, he got his wish. He's been traded to the Predators where he'll join the a team in the middle of a playoff hunt -- and he'll join his wife, country superstar Carrie Underwood, who lives and works in Music City.
Mike Fisher Traded, Joins Wife Carrie Underwood In Nashville
Since the moment we found out the two were engaged in December 2009, we all kind of expected this to happen. On the Forecheck blogged about it at the time. Silver Seven mentioned it earlier this week in a “potential trade” story.
Fisher himself even admitted it would happen someday, although he diplomatically told the Ottawa Sun over the summer that it’d happen after his hockey career.
When I’m done hockey, she’ll still be working. I’m sure she can always work. We’ll settle in Nashville. I love it there. I’ve got lots of friends there now, I love the area. I like a lot of things about it. There’s a nice church that we love, that we go to ... that being said, it’s a little ways away. I want to obviously play a few years, a bunch of years here yet.
Well, it's happening a little soon, isn't it? Of course, that immediately leads to the speculation that this was one of those "Pronger's wife" situations. If you recall, then-Oilers defenseman Chris Pronger basically asked for a trade after his wife said she wasn't happy in Edmonton.
Don’t think the same here, though. From that same Sun interview back in July:
“She likes it [in Ottawa]. I’ve been here for so long, She would never want her to be the reason I leave here, because I like it so much. Obviously, family is going to be important decision. But it’s not like I can’t wait to go there. I really want to stay here and finish my career. That’s what she really wants, too.”
Besides, Ottawa’s in rebuild mode and they were the ones who told Fisher they might trade him. Bruce Garrioch of the Sun reports that Fisher never gave a “list of teams” but that Nashville and Los Angeles were his two preferred locales. Not hard to understand why.
In the end, good for the Underwoods and good for the Predators. And hell, good for the Senators. They get a first round pick out of the deal as they begin a big-time rebuild.
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