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Realignment, Quebec City and SoDo Arena Renders
What a day! NHL approves realignment, Sonics ticket priority list went on sale & then the team at SonicsArena post the arena renderings with a rink. I want to focus on the NHL realignment. Yes, yes, things look good for Seattle for expansion with the lopsided divisions but I don’t think the league would tip […]
Big day on landing an NHL team in Seattle….
Okay okay we are a long way from getting an NHL team in Seattle but we cleared another major road block today. The Lawsuit filed by the ILUW was thrown out by a Washington State judge today. Had this not been thrown out, it could have delayed progress on the arena. This could have put […]
The Wikipedia entry for the Week that was “NHL to Seattle”
This has easily been the biggest week of news on the NHL possibly coming to Seattle ever. Forbes, CBC, Globe and Mail, Sportsnet.ca & ESPN all referenced an NHL team coming to Seattle. The local coverage by KING5’s Chris Daniels and sports radio KJR has been excellent. I will post a lot of links in […]
The big news…Seattle City Council reaches agreement with the Hansen Group
Obviously a little late to the party but I found out late monday night as I was leaving the rink and then I had to get on a flight 6 hours later so sorry for the delay. I am not going to comment on the specific concessions made in the deal, you can read up […]
Bird in the hand….
Well what a week. On Tuesday, the King County Council moved the SoDo/Hansen MOU out of committee and up for possible full council vote on Monday. Second, a Gretzky sighting at the Mariners game unleashed all kind of speculation that he was meeting with the City of Bellevue about the NHL in the area as […]
Hansen talks about where we are at with hockey in Seattle
Just a quick note on some of remarks around NHL I caught on KJR yesterday when Chris Hansen called in to their show. You can listen to it here: http://www.sportsradiokjr.com/player/?station=KJR-AM&program_name=podcast&program_id=softy.xml&mid=22279286 I enjoyed the entire piece but if you want to just listen to the hockey comments, it starts roughly at the 21:45 remark. Here are the main comments: “There […]
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