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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 […]
Canadian Hockey League Attendance Report
Since things have been pretty quiet on the NHL to Seattle front until we see the final EIS study, I figured I would put together a little regular season wrap up on the Canadian Hockey League. OHL and the WHL were up year over year 2% and 1% respectively while the QMJHL was down 3%. Due […]
NHL to Seattle Survey #2 Part 1: The WHL edition
I received some great insight and response from the 2nd NHL to Seattle Survey. So much so that I need to break it down into two or three posts. Without further ado, I present the WHL edition of the results. Disclosures: a majority of the promotion and respondents came from the NHLtoSeattle Facebook page or […]
Interactive CHL attendance report for last 3 years
Not directly related the NHL to Seattle Mission but since the WHL is one of the biggest things we have here I thought I would share the CHL Attendance Dashboard I put together. You can filter by league and teams to get a look at how many teams have done over the last 3 years. […]
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