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Canadian impact on Mariners Attendance
by John Long story short but I met a friend outside of Safeco on Tuesday night right around first pitch of the Mariners-Jays baseball game. He was running late so I was loitering around for about 15 minutes. I always knew that a lot of local Canadians would go check out the Jays when they […]
Lots of hurdles for Expansion but expanding in pairs is not one of them.
by Brad In 1978, the NHL’s Cleveland Barons merged with the Minnestoa North Stars, bringing the total number of teams in the NHL down from 18 to 17. The next year, four teams from the World Hockey Association were added to the league, bringing the number up to 21. For the next twelve seasons, the […]
Gary Bettman is pushing for what..huh?
As you may have heard, Mitch Levy is reporting that Gary Bettman, yes Gary Bettman is pushing the NHL Board of Governors to approve an expansion team for Seattle for the 2014-15 Season. The short of it is: I’m hearing that the NHL Commish is encouraging the board of governors to make an expansion team available […]
Voters Guide to the Primary Election
For all of you in Seattle voting in our primary election, I wanted to provide you the NHL fans cheat sheet for voting. There are lot of reasons to vote for these candidates below but at the core of my endorsement is where these candidates sit on the Arena Issue. If you don’t know by […]
Potential Gate Revenues in KeyArena
Let me first say that I’ve always felt analyzing Arena Revenues on the success of a franchise is just part of the financial picture & can be shortsighted. Arena Revs are important and it is largely reported that NHL relies on their Arena Gate revenue much more than other professional sports leagues. My point about the Gate Revenues […]
The day after the NBA BOG vote….NHL to Seattle Answers
Quick note on the NBA Board of Governors vote to decline relocation of the Sacramento Kings and what this means to hockey. First, everyone should know that the Arena doesn’t get built without an NBA team committed to Seattle. With no Arena, the NHL will not be an option. Here are some common questions I get […]
2013 NHL Attendance Numbers
Here is my 2013 wrap up report on NHL attendance…(The entire post is replicated over at 3rdlinegrind.com. I try to make that other site my posts that are non-Seattle centric…like this one but a get a ton of traffic here by people searching for “NHL attendance”.) Following a trend that was spotted early in the […]
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