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WHL Playoffs Kick Off Friday With All Five U.S. Division Teams In The Mix
By Andy Eide The Western Hockey League’s second season gets underway Friday night and for the second straight season, all five U.S. Division teams have qualified. The U.S. Division has been on quite a run, sending a team to the WHL Championships in eight of the last nine seasons (Portland 2011-2014, Seattle 2016-2017, Everett 2018), […]
NHL Draft Prospects Live Life Under The Microscope
By Andy Eide Jake Lee skates off the ice after playing 25-plus minutes of defense for the Seattle Thunderbirds. He sits at his stall in the Seattle dressing room and begins to pry off his sweat soaked shoulder pads. The coaching staff come into the room for a quick post-game briefing and message. Before Lee […]
Great hockey options this weekend
Junior action this weekend: Lethbridge coming to town The Lethbridge Hurricanes are doing their bi-annual swing through the Greater Seattle Area this weekend and, if you are an NHL fan, this is a team worth checking out. Lethbridge has top prospect Dylan Cozens on the team who, according to the NHL Central Scouting midseason ranking, […]
Glen Goodall Is The Seattle Hockey Legend You Need To Know
By Andy Eide The goal came in 1990 during a February game against the Portland Winterhawks at the Arena on Mercer Street. It had to come against Portland. It was an innocent looking play to start. A battle in the corner resulted in the puck squirting out to Seattle Thunderbirds captain Glen Goodall. He pivoted […]
An NHL fan’s guide to the WHL
When I moved to Seattle 14 years ago, I signed up for a partial season ticket package of the Seattle Thunderbirds. I didn’t really know what level the Thunderbirds were in the hockey hierarchy. I just wanted to watch hockey. Originally, I thought it was an interesting hybrid of minor league and semi-pro league hockey […]
Q&A: Bill Chapin discussion on business side of NHL Seattle
Starting a new sports franchise from scratch requires a lot of sports business smarts and knowledge of the new marketplace. Luckily for NHL Seattle, they’ve brought in someone with both. The organization has hired Bill Chapin to work with Tod and Tim Leiweke on premium revenue initiatives regarding both the arena project and potential NHL […]
WEEKEND READING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING 2018-08-17
LOCAL What’s in a name? For Seattle’s future NHL team, more than meets the Sock-eye Seattle Times tackles the name game exercise. Tuesdays with Tod NHL Seattle president, Tod Leiweke, jumped on KJR radio with Dave ‘Softy’ Mahler in what will be a regular segment. (Tod’s segment starts about the 43 minute mark) Lexi Bender […]
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