Mayor: OVG has completed their application to the NHL
I will let the Mayor’s tweet do the talking….one step closer! Excited to share the news that @OvgSeattle completed their application to the @NHL – one step closer to bringing another great sports team to our City and revitalizing @SeattleCenter #NHLtoSeattle pic.twitter.com/MOFVO1229I — Mayor Jenny Durkan (@MayorJenny) February 13, 2018 Update: Elliotte Friedman piled on […]
RMHC Hockey Challenge: February 24th
Over the last 14 years I’ve had 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 […]
NHL Expansion Application is on track
A little bit of NHL to Seattle news came out of the weekend while the NHL Execs were in Tampa for the NHL all star game. NHL Expansion Application is on track Everything appears to be on track for the potential ownership group in Seattle tosubmit their application with the reported $10 Million application fee […]
Season Ticket Drive Thoughts
There is not a day that goes by that people don’t ask me about the season ticket drive. People hit me up on social media, text, email, and just about every hockey friend I run into asks me about it. I love that Seattle hockey fans are so excited about the possibility of an NHL […]
NHLtoSeattle 2017 News in Review
We entered 2017 without a whole lot going for us to bring the NHL to Seattle. SoDo Arena was largely dead and a lot of us where skeptical of a potential redevelopment of KeyArena could accommodate a sheet of ice. If you want to see how gloom it looked at the end of 2016, take a […]
KJR Roundtable – Let’s talk some hockey.
I jumped on the Dave “Softy” Mahler show on KJR with members of the Seattle Thunderbirds and Everett Silvertips to talk some hockey on sports radio in Seattle. It was fun to talk some hockey and hopefully we will see more of these opportunities. If you have any thoughts or ideas for future discussions, let […]
Seattle City Council Approves Arena Plan
The Seattle City Council has approved the Key Arena redevelopment Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Oak View Group (OVG) today with a vote of 7-1. This is a MONUMENTAL milestone to bringing the NHL to Seattle. If you have been off the grid the last 6 months or just new here, OVG is planning a […]
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