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 […]
2014 in NHL to Seattle news
January 1st Ed Murray is sworn in as the new mayor of Seattle. During his campaign, Murray pledge to support the current arena MOU but he is not as big of an advocate as the prior Mayor Mike McGinn. January 30th While sitting on a panel and speaking to students, the Winnipeg Jets Chairman says […]
Parity in the league has never been tighter
From time to time I read something from NHL fans or hockey media types claiming that expansion will ruin the game because of parity or dilution of talent. I get pretty dismissive about their “arguments” as very few of these claims are based on facts or data. I decided to investigate it on my own. […]
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, […]
SoDo Arena current state of an NHL first scenario: A little refresher
It is commonly known that the NHL must have assurances of a new Arena in Seattle before awarding the city an NHL franchise. The blocking issue is not as simple as rewriting the current MOU to enable an NHL-first scenario. For those that don’t know, the current Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Seattle and […]
Sin City and the NHL
As you may have seen, Michael Russo wrote an excellent article about the prospects of putting an NHL team in Vegas. The difference between this report and earlier rumors circulating on Vegas are the quotes and confirmation from the NHL’s own Bill Daly. When the reports started surfacing of Vegas being the location of an NHL […]
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