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SoDo Arena Timeline & NHL First
I am about to jump on a flight to Boston but wanted to share some news that broke this afternoon on the SoDo Arena. True to his word on driving more transparency on the SoDo Arena process, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray revealed the current Arena Timeline in this post. It is a great post that […]
NHL Talent Pool Climbs
Occasionally I will get a comment about the NHL being too diluted. I dismiss these remarks rather quickly. I have looked at the data and tried to watch hockey from the 80s. Most people with deeper knowledge of the game know the talent has never been deeper. I’ve already shown how NHL league parity is extremely tight. (Note: […]
Potential Seattle NHL Ownership Groups Revealed
Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times backed up his article last week on the arena locations with this piece on potential NHL ownership groups in Seattle. Long story short, there appears to be 3 potential groups roughly aligned to the 3 sites. I created this handy dandy diagram to make sense of it all. Tod Leiweke […]
RMHC Hockey Challenge 2015
Once again I have the honor of playing in the Ronald McDonald House Hockey Challenge. This is an annual event put on by the Seattle Thunderbirds and the Ronald McDonald House of Western Washington and Alaska. If you don’t know what the Ronald McDonald House is all about, you should. The Seattle Ronald McDonald House […]
The Mayor and Commissioners
The Mayor of Seattle, Ed Murray, visited with Gary Bettman and Adam Silver on Monday to give them an update on the SoDo Arena. As you would expect, King5’s Chris Daniels was on it. Murray: “We are very keen on bringing NHL team here, & the commissioner recognizes the value we would bring as home […]
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, […]
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