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NHLer of a different stripe: Lake Stevens’ Vaughan Rody skates back to the show
Seattle’s NHL team won’t begin playing until 2021, but one Lake Stevens resident returns to big-league ice for his 20th season this week as he continues to chase milestones and personal goals. Vaughan Rody maintains neutrality on the job as an NHL linesman, but he’s just as excited as thousands of other Evergreen State hockey […]
Seattle NHL Expansion in the Post-Vegas Era: Creating a Hometown Team
When the Vegas Golden Knights entered the NHL in 2017, they had the tall task of being the first expansion team for any “Big Four” league in the social media era. The last NHL expansion prior to Vegas was in 2000 when the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets joined the league, and the last […]
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 […]
Hansen’s ‘Hail Mary’
Yesterday the Hansen Group threw up a ‘Hail Mary’ by sending a letter to the Seattle City Council on a possible redevelopment plan of their own for KeyArena. As I’ve said in previous posts, the three main challenges for SoDo is the lack of money, no NHL partner, and political support inside and outside city […]
Oak View Group round up and Bettman comments on Seattle
The Oak View Group’s Tim Leiweke was in town and made a couple key stops to speak with the Seattle Times and King5’s Chris Daniels. As you might recall, the Oak View Group is one of the two expected bidders on the KeyArena redevelopment RFP that could host both an NBA or NHL team. Before […]
Impasse in SoDo leaves Prospective NHL Owner looking for other options
As you might have heard by now there were was a lot of news about the NHL coming to Seattle over the weekend which stem from two articles by Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times. The first article stated that the NHL has no plans to expand to Seattle right now due to the lack of an Arena plan […]
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