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 […]
Buckle up: We are in for a ride
Last week I posted my assessment of Geoff Baker’s article from 2/13 about the potential of Seattle landing an NHL team. Since then, Geoff followed up with an additional article 2/20 with some information on a Seattle delegation headed up to Vancouver to learn more about the business of hockey and take in a game. For […]
Same as it ever was….
By now you have probably heard about the article posted in the Seattle Times last week about NHL Deputy Commissioner, Bill Daly saying Seattle would be a “good hockey market”. While there were a few nuggets of new speculation in there, we have heard a lot of it before. First, we know the NHL likes […]
NHL Attendance Report: January 2013
January was a tough month to analyze but there were some positives for the NHL reported attendance. First off, comparing January 2014 to 2013 is not really possible as we came out of the lockout last year and had opening night in January last year and the condensed schedule generated a little more buzz and […]
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