Parity in the league has never been tighter
From time to time I read something from NHL fans or hockey media types claiming that expansion will ruin the game because of parity or dilution of talent. I get pretty dismissive about their “arguments” as very few of these claims are based on facts or data. I decided to investigate it on my own. […]
Wrapping up the Las Vegas News
In case you have been living under a rock, Monday afternoon the NHL gave approval to prospective franchise owner in Las Vegas, Bill Foley, clearance to build a Season Ticket List. Bettman cautioned that this should not be seen a s a green light to expansion. Expansion and Las Vegas dominated the news out of […]
Quantifying the Seattle market
When people ask me why Seattle will make a good market for the NHL, I often cite that Seattle is the 13 biggest TV market in the US and the second biggest market without a team. Or I might reference the strong corporate support we have here with big companies like Boeing, Amazon, Microsoft, Nordstrom, […]
SoDo Arena current state of an NHL first scenario: A little refresher
It is commonly known that the NHL must have assurances of a new Arena in Seattle before awarding the city an NHL franchise. The blocking issue is not as simple as rewriting the current MOU to enable an NHL-first scenario. For those that don’t know, the current Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Seattle and […]
Sin City and the NHL
As you may have seen, Michael Russo wrote an excellent article about the prospects of putting an NHL team in Vegas. The difference between this report and earlier rumors circulating on Vegas are the quotes and confirmation from the NHL’s own Bill Daly. When the reports started surfacing of Vegas being the location of an NHL […]
Quick thoughts on Florida Attendance
In case you missed it, there were several photos of an empty arena during the Florida Panthers game last night. People quickly tagged me, mentioned me and emailed last night with references to moving the Panthers to Seattle. I get it, it looks bad and we knew this was coming based on announcements from the […]
Recapping some stories of the week
Here is a quick summary of some of the stories that were passed around this week relevant to the NHL coming to Seattle. Seattle Arena EIS KOMO news reported that the Arena EIS process was delayed again. Which is pretty consistent with what we heard from Chris Daniels in July. I dismissed it as no news […]
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