Nashville Mayor David Briley reimburses Predators fan who shipped catfish to NHL

She had to step away from coloring a client's hair Friday afternoon to accept an envelope of cash from the mayor.

Briley Meeks said she was shocked to see Nashville Mayor David Briley come to her Madison hair salon, with an entourage of camera crews and security.

Briley handed her $141.75, for the cost of buying and shipping two headless catfish to the NHL headquarters in Toronto.

"This is insane," said Meeks, looking at the envelope, now stained with hair dye.

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Meeks is the 25-year-old Predators fan who mailed the fish as a protest of the league's ruling that Filip Forsberg's last-second tying goal against Florida on Tuesday night did not count because of teammate Viktor Arvidsson's goaltender interference.

Mayor Briley said he was reimbursing her "for doing the right thing, and letting the NHL know how disappointed we were."

"No taxpayer money is at issue here," the mayor added. "It's my own money."

Meeks said she received a call from the Predators Friday telling her the NHL received the fish, and that NHL officials found it funny.

"I thought they were going to be mad," she said. "I'm glad they got a kick out of it."

The goal prevented the game from going into overtime. And instead of the Predators possibly winning in overtime and capturing the franchise's first Western Conference title, the team lost the game.

"I saw the rules pretty clearly as giving us a goal," said Briley.

After the controversial loss, Predators fans were outraged. How dare the NHL's "situation room" in its Toronto league office disallow a goal which would have been one of the most dramatic and most important goals in the franchise's 20-year history.

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Meeks tracked down the league office's address. She called U.S. Customs to make sure that the fish could travel over the international border. The catfish was only $7.25. She paid $134.50 for overnight shipping so she could track when the fish arrived at the NHL office.

The tracking shows that H CHORZEPA signed for the DHL Express Worldwide package at the league's office on 12:29 p.m. (ET) on Thursday.