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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 […]
Silly Season – An NHL Free Agency Primer
Silly season is upon us! It’s that magical time of year when NHL GM’s all across North America get together and collectively decide that it’s time to grossly overspend on players of all skill levels, in hopes that maybe… just maybe… the guy they lure is the guy that can get their respective teams over […]
Pacific Northwest Playoff Guide
Here is your completely biased and unapologetic pacific northwest guide to the Stanley Cup Playoffs. With the exception of the Pittsburgh Penguins, all Stanley Cup Playoff teams have a northwest reason to root for on the team. Without further ado, here is your reason to root for <<Insert team name not named Pittsburgh Penguins here>>. […]
Bettman and Daly visit with Seattle Mayor and King County Executive
If you have been paying any attention to any hockey news in the last 24 hours, you may have heard that Gary Bettman & Bill Daly, visited Seattle last week to meet with King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray. Both sides are saying the meeting was informal and the NHL wanted to […]
What makes Seattle such an attractive market?
We have heard much of the news lately about 3 potential ownership groups interested in brining an NHL franchise to Seattle. It is also clear that the NHL views Seattle as an attractive market. So what makes Seattle such an attractive market? TV Market Regional Sports Networks (RSN) are a critical revenue stream to pro sports […]
Buckle up: We are in for a ride
Last week I posted my assessment of Geoff Baker’s article from 2/13 about the potential of Seattle landing an NHL team. Since then, Geoff followed up with an additional article 2/20 with some information on a Seattle delegation headed up to Vancouver to learn more about the business of hockey and take in a game. For […]
Same as it ever was….
By now you have probably heard about the article posted in the Seattle Times last week about NHL Deputy Commissioner, Bill Daly saying Seattle would be a “good hockey market”. While there were a few nuggets of new speculation in there, we have heard a lot of it before. First, we know the NHL likes […]
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