March 2014 4
The first American team to win the Stanley Cup won it on this day.
On this date in 1917 the Seattle Metropolitans beat the Canadiens 9-1 to become the first American team to win the Stanley Cup.
NHL to Seattle: current state of affairs
Earlier today, Chris Daniels reported an article about the Final Environmental Impact Study on the SoDo Arena has been slowed down and is not expected until the end of summer at the earliest. A tweet publicizing the post had text that said “could hold up NHL” even though the article failed to really address the potential delay. […]
What makes Seattle such an attractive market?
We have heard much of the news lately about 3 potential ownership groups interested in brining an NHL franchise to Seattle. It is also clear that the NHL views Seattle as an attractive market. So what makes Seattle such an attractive market? TV Market Regional Sports Networks (RSN) are a critical revenue stream to pro sports […]
Changing the MOU should be no risk to the City of Seattle
I posted an article on SonicsRising last week on the risk to the city of amending the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to allow an either NHL or NBA scenario. Currently the MOU reads that an NBA team must be obtain before breaking ground on the SoDo Arena. I wanted to document the same content here […]
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