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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 […]
Keep Calm…there is nothing to see here.
Lots of news from yesterday but I am here to throw a wet blanket on “the report” that the NHL will expand to Las Vegas, Toronto, Quebec and Seattle by 2017. Maybe I’ve seen this city get their heartbroken of the Sacramento Kings last spring, or the hockey community let down by a vote in […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bettman comments on the “E” word
If you are in Seattle, before you read this piece, say three times out loud: “There are no guarantees. There are no guarantees. There are no guarantees.” Gary Bettman was speaking at the Prime Time Sports Management Conference in Toronto this morning where Yahoo NHL reporter, Nick Cotsonika, captured this nugget from the Commissioner. Bettman […]
Quick update on the NHL to Seattle Rumblings
It has been a while since we had an actual NHL to Seattle update. So I figured I would give a quick assessment of some of the news making the rounds before everyone gets worked up. There was a report over the weekend from the local and reliable reporter, Chris Daniels that the NHL is […]
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