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NHL To Seattle 2016 News in Review
From a league level, we entered the beginning of 2016 with some outstanding questions on the two NHL expansion applications from Quebec and Las Vegas. Meanwhile, locally we were still waiting on the outcome of the final street vacation on the SoDo arena. January 14th Rumors start to circulate that the falling Canadian Dollar could […]
Game Changer in SoDo?
Roughly 6 months ago, the Seattle City Council declined the street vacation request by Chris Hansen by a vote of 5-4 that would have cleared the last governmental hurdle for the SoDo arena to become a reality. As you may recall, council members cited the amount of public financing as their reason for rejecting the […]
Is Seattle’s SoDo arena dead?
The short answer is ‘Yes, SoDo arena is dead.’ As many of you know by now the Seattle City Council rejected the Occidental Street vacation in the SoDo district. This was largely thought to be the final hurdle in a 4-year process for Chris Hansen to have a shovel-ready arena site just south of Safeco […]
Seattle is not part of the expansion process..but we knew that already
In Gary Bettman’s annual state of the league address he said in no uncertain terms that Seattle will not be getting a team in the current expansion process. This was known and the league message has been consistent from the very beginning. This expansion process is about Quebec and Las Vegas, not Seattle. There have […]
2015 NHL to Seattle Report Card
I am giving out grades for 2015 and it is not pretty. I am optimistic on Seattle getting an NHL team but we have work to do. Last year at this time the outlook for a potential NHL franchise in Seattle was looking promising. The NHL approved Las Vegas to begin a Season Ticket drive. […]
NHL Expansion & Seattle Update
It’s been a while since I have posted anything here. I figured we all needed a cooling off period after the NHL application deadline came and passed with no Seattle applicants. It was rumored (but not confirmed) that 4 of the 16 NHL expansion application requests came from the Seattle area. The details of why […]
How Tukwila Stacks Up
Full disclosure: This is somewhat recycled content but wanted to update some of the maps I have done with the news from yesterday. Population As most of you know, the bulk of the population is located in Seattle and the East Side (Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Sammamish). The Tukwila site is roughly equal distance for the two locations. […]
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