NHL to Seattle Volume XVI - It's Official. Seattle to join the league for 21-22 season.
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The man formerly known as "Puck Daddy" has thoughts on the team name.....
To the comment from the Kraken......
To the comment from the Kraken......
90’s Seattle expansion bid got undermined by the sonics owner who was a partner in the bid.
City had told them that if they got a team that they would have blown up the Arena and built a new one in its place.
Thus the Key arena would have been on par with Rogers arena in Vancouver and the Moda Center in Portland.
But what is frustrating when you read the history about it is the complete lack of foresight by both the city and NHL.
If the NHL wanted to be in the Pacific Northwest one day you heard in the presentation what the city plans were. So if the arena goes in as basketball only you will be shutout of Seattle for a very long time.
For the city, you don’t believe that you will be good enough to have an NHL team one day? Yes more up front cost, but if you build something that expansive do it right.
Both sides lost as that decision to go cheap cost Seattle the sonics. And the NHL missed out on Seattle for 20 plus years as they could have with a brand new arena have been part of the late 90’s expansion with Nashville.
LadyStanley
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Expansion will only make the NHL more entertaining
Expansion will only make the NHL more entertaining
Lambert thinks that watering down the talent by another 50 or so players should make for better hockey, and the top players more productive.
Expansion will only make the NHL more entertaining
Lambert thinks that watering down the talent by another 50 or so players should make for better hockey, and the top players more productive.
For a country as big as US no idea how having 32 teams is suddenly watering down the talent. Nevermind there is Canadian talent then European talent.
sawchuk1971
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the seattle arena now costs $850 mil...
Seattle NHL arena will now cost $850m to rebuild | SportBusiness
The cost of constructing Seattle’s NHL arena is now estimated to be $850m (€750m) – $50m more than was projected on Tuesday when the city was granted an expansion team.
Seattle NHL arena will now cost $850m to rebuild | SportBusiness
The cost of constructing Seattle’s NHL arena is now estimated to be $850m (€750m) – $50m more than was projected on Tuesday when the city was granted an expansion team.
800m for the arena + 50m for a parking garage. We don't know what exactly are they talking about regarding parking garage.
TheLegend
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That parking garage interests me since Glendale balked at spending ~$58 million for one at Westgate some two years ago.
TheLegend
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No doubt.... but Glendale originally had monies set aside to build one when Westgate began construction. That’s another story in itself.
But I’m more curious about the cost per parking space...etc.
BattleBorn
50% to winning as many division titles as Toronto
I think it's fairly safe to assume the cost per parking space isn't nearly as large a concern here in Seattle as it is in Glendale. Especially when it's compared to the revenue per space in both places.
I'm sure if they could find a way to build a 30 floor parking garage in Seattle Center and get it to pass design review and NIMBY concerns, they'd do it.
Given what people have said about traffic in the area I would expect it to be expensive. Have to make that money back.
the original plan had an above ground parking garage, community objected to it and thus it ended up being an under ground parking garage instead. No idea if that 50m is that or a separate one.
LadyStanley
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I wonder if the NHL is considering holding the 2021 ASG at the new Key Arena as late January 2021 seems like a deadline they could attain and it would give the fans something to look forward to in the interim.
I used to live a few blocks away from Key Arena when the Sonics were still there and parking was messed up on non game days. Now add Amazon taking over the space between downtown and Lake Union jacking up rental and housing prices through the roof. Traffic is going to be an astronomical nightmare. The parking between upper Queen Anne to the north, the Holland America corporate headquarters to the south and highway 99 to the east will be non existent on the street and the spaces that will be open will be in the 40-90 dollar range. Supply and demand in a nutshell.
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Spartachat
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Yeah, the Miami Marlins were in Back To The Future 12 years before that team existed...
The person just wanted to protect herself. And the group has been very good at working with people to address issues.
BattleBorn
50% to winning as many division titles as Toronto
They were the Miami Gators in the movie, though. It took a while for the Marlins to finally use the Miami name instead of Florida, too.
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