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Selecting an AHL City for NHL Seattle
Outside of what to name the future NHL franchise in Seattle, where to place the AHL (American Hockey League) Affiliate is another widely discussed topic of conversation inside the Seattle hockey community. The AHL is the minor league development system for the NHL. For the most part, all NHL teams have an AHL affiliate that […]
NHL Expansion grows the player pool
I’ve long contended that Seattle is an attractive market for the NHL because of the opportunity to grow the fan base. But there is also an opportunity to grow the player pool. We do have 5 WHL teams in the region. However, as much as a lot of us love Major Junior Hockey, it just […]
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 […]
Bettman talks a little expansion in NYC presser
I caught a bunch of comments on twitter from Gary Bettman’s press conference this morning in NYC. He talked quite a bit about Expansion and Seattle so I wanted to share for the folks that might not be on twitter or may have missed it. There could be some follow up articles on some of these […]
Potential Seattle NHL Ownership Groups Revealed
Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times backed up his article last week on the arena locations with this piece on potential NHL ownership groups in Seattle. Long story short, there appears to be 3 potential groups roughly aligned to the 3 sites. I created this handy dandy diagram to make sense of it all. Tod Leiweke […]
Breaking down the 3 arena options
In case you missed it, Gary Bettman mentioned Tukwila and Bellevue as potential sites for an NHL arena in the Seattle Area on a radio interview in Vancouver. Stick tap goes to Paul Rogers, from SonicsRising.com, for covering the news ahead of our more traditional media outlets. Geoff Baker from the Seattle Times then published […]
NY Post: Gretzky interested in NHL to Seattle. Agent: Not so fast.
Just when we expected to be go into the hockey news doldrums, the New York Post reports that none other than Wayne Gretzky is part of an ownership group that is trying to land an NHL team in Seattle. Wayne Gretzky has joined a group of investors hoping to bring a National Hockey League team to Seattle, The […]
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