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 […]
47,000 is greater than 19,000
It seems like the Port’s concerns is one of the last major hurdles to approve the SoDo Arena. To be clear, they are not saying it shouldn’t be built there, they just want more time and studies on potential Port impacts. I am not going to get into the fact that they’ve had 5 months to determine the impact or share […]
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 […]
Data Data Data….on the Public Hearing.
Here is my quick assesment of the public hearing tonight (7/19). For the most part, the issues at hand require so much research, nothing can really be learned at these things because there are biases and claims that can’t really be answered or addressed in this forum. One thing it does provide is an opportunity […]
Current state of Affairs of the Chris Hansen proposal
Well we are inching the closer to the City and County Council voting on the Hansen proposal and I thought I would sum up the current state of affairs. For the record, I am trying to be as objective as possible here but I know I can’t be since I would love for a hockey […]
Attendance Figures for the NHL
Below is a graph that shows the average attendance by market over the last 10 seasons. Here are some comments: Canada has dropped off the last couple years because of Ottawa 2008-09 thru 2010-11. They rebounded this year but when Winnipeg was added, it dropped the average since their building has a capacity just over 15,000. In the […]
Seattle Comps
Isolating on Metro population only I feel the following NHL cities are good comps for Seattle: Population and Value is in Millions. The value numbers and rank are based on Forbes published values at the beginning of the 2011-12 season. I think it is tough to think that Seattle can do as well as Detroit with the history […]
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