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Realignment, Quebec City and SoDo Arena Renders
What a day! NHL approves realignment, Sonics ticket priority list went on sale & then the team at SonicsArena post the arena renderings with a rink. I want to focus on the NHL realignment. Yes, yes, things look good for Seattle for expansion with the lopsided divisions but I don’t think the league would tip […]
The Sacramento Kings news and what it means to a potential NHL team in Seattle
As I imagine most of your Seattle readers and even fringe NBA fans, news broke yesterday that the Maloofs are close to selling the Sacramento Kings to Seattle SoDo Arena backed group led by Chris Hansen & Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The intent of the purchase will be to move the team next season to […]
Why the Islanders could be headed to Seattle in 2015-2016
On the surface, you would think the there is no way a team with a storied history like the New York Islanders could be a relocation target but when you peel back the layers you see a failing franchise with no relief to their Arena woes in sight. You see, the Islanders play in a […]
Hansen talks about where we are at with hockey in Seattle
Just a quick note on some of remarks around NHL I caught on KJR yesterday when Chris Hansen called in to their show. You can listen to it here: http://www.sportsradiokjr.com/player/?station=KJR-AM&program_name=podcast&program_id=softy.xml&mid=22279286 I enjoyed the entire piece but if you want to just listen to the hockey comments, it starts roughly at the 21:45 remark. Here are the main comments: “There […]
Current state of Affairs of the Chris Hansen proposal
Well we are inching the closer to the City and County Council voting on the Hansen proposal and I thought I would sum up the current state of affairs. For the record, I am trying to be as objective as possible here but I know I can’t be since I would love for a hockey […]
Seattle Comps
Isolating on Metro population only I feel the following NHL cities are good comps for Seattle: Population and Value is in Millions. The value numbers and rank are based on Forbes published values at the beginning of the 2011-12 season. I think it is tough to think that Seattle can do as well as Detroit with the history […]
My executive summary on the Seattle Arena news
Here is my exec summary of the news over the last couple weeks: Sacramento looks close to coming up with a finance deal for a new arena. The tax payers are probably going to get fleeced since it isn’t going to a vote. There are so many hidden $ in these deals it is hard […]
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