November NHL Attendance Report: Numbers still strong
November proved to be another good month for the NHL reported attendance numbers. Attendance was up 1% compared to games in November of 2011 and is up 2% for the first two months of the season compared to 2011. 2% might not sound like much but in a league where half the teams sellout every team, that is significant. Big gainers […]
Arena progressing and potential NHL ownership group in town
UPDATED 11AM PST: Check the bottom of the post. Chris Daniels teased us for about 24 hours when he tweeted that he would have an exclusive interview with Hansen to get an arena update and talk NHL first scenario. Remember – after #MNF, tune into KONG or KING5 for the exclusive interview w/ Chris Hansen on […]
Bettman comments on the “E” word
If you are in Seattle, before you read this piece, say three times out loud: “There are no guarantees. There are no guarantees. There are no guarantees.” Gary Bettman was speaking at the Prime Time Sports Management Conference in Toronto this morning where Yahoo NHL reporter, Nick Cotsonika, captured this nugget from the Commissioner. Bettman […]
October NHL Attendance
With this first month of the season wrapping up on Thursday, I figure it would be a good time to revisit one of my favorite topics of NHL attendance. Let me state this up front, the purpose of writing this up is not to determine who could be a relocate target. Anyone that has been […]
NHL Exec talks up Seattle & a bit of Seattle Arena news
For October, this was a big news day. Two unrelated bits of news about the NHL coming to Seattle today. 1) MLSE executive Tim Leiweke mentioned Quebec City and Seattle are frontrunners for expansion 2) SeattleArena dates moved out with final EIS estimated for March. Let’s dig into the Leiweke’s comments by way of David […]
Quick update on the NHL to Seattle Rumblings
It has been a while since we had an actual NHL to Seattle update. So I figured I would give a quick assessment of some of the news making the rounds before everyone gets worked up. There was a report over the weekend from the local and reliable reporter, Chris Daniels that the NHL is […]
The Next NHL City to be added to the Western Conference could be… Detroit
By Brad There seems to be a prevailing logic in NHL expansion circles that because the league currently has two fewer teams in its Western Conference than the Eastern, any expansion scenario would have to include the addition of at least one, if not two, west coast cities, in order to even things out. This […]
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