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Weekly reading 2018-11-30
As we anxiously wait for Tuesday, here are a few stories to chew on. Local NHL Board of Governors Meeting: What to look for – We gave you a cheat sheet on what to look regarding Seattle at the Board of Governors meeting. Seattle Center arena will be ready for NHL team in 2020, Seattle […]
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 […]
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 […]
Seattle is ready for the NBA and NHL
From Brian Robinson and John Barr Seattle’s rapid and inspiring growth over the last decade has placed our city atop many important lists. For example: Top 10 Most Livable Big Cities (Business Insider, August 2017) The fastest growing big city in the United States (US Census, 2017) The city with more construction cranes than any […]
SoDo is Dead
I know there are a lot of folks that wanted to see the SoDo site be the location of Seattle’s arena to host NHL and NBA teams, but the door seems to have been closed indefinitely as the City of Seattle shared that they will not be re-voting on the Occidental Street Vacation that the […]
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 […]
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