Hockey

[Stephane Dumas]

Some folks had beginned to do predictions for the 2019 Stanley cup championship and thinking of Tampa Bay, Boston, Toronto,... but one guy go even further by predicting the 2027 Stanley cup champions.
https://thecanuckway.com/2018/08/30/vancouver-canucks-2027-stanley-cup-champions/

[1995hoo]

We picked up our latest Cup item from the framing store today. They dry-mounted the front page and put the rest of the section in a pocket on the back.

[Stephane Dumas]

NHL 19 simulation think then 2019 will be the year of the Leafs.
https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/video/nhl-19-simulation-results-in-the-maple-leafs-winning-the-stanley-cup~1503528
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/ea-sports-nhl-19-picks-maple-leafs-to-win-stanley-cup-1.4847024

[Big John]

NHL executive committee unanimously recommends an expansion team in Seattle.  https://sports.yahoo.com/nhl-seattle-expansion-moves-closer-011533093.html

[ET21]

Hockey returns tonight!!!

[Bruce]

So long as the team name isn't crappy or offensive, hockey should thrive in Seattle. The city is hungry for an indoor sports team.

[1995hoo]

@1995hoo

Let's try to explain this in @dcsportsbog style: Tonight, the @StanleyCup Champion @Capitals, who won the Stanley Cup and are the champions, raised the Stanley Cup Champions banner, skated the Stanley Cup, and came out looking like they could have a chance to win the Stanley Cup.

[Alps]

So long as the team name isn't crappy or offensive, hockey should thrive in Seattle. The city is hungry for an indoor sports team.

Seattle Indians?

[rickmastfan67]

Shoulda been half a season with all the suspensions he's gotten in just one year for this type of crap!

https://twitter.com/NHLPlayerSafety/status/1047574135436656640

[Stephane Dumas]

So long as the team name isn't crappy or offensive, hockey should thrive in Seattle. The city is hungry for an indoor sports team.

Seattle Indians?

There's also Seattle Totems that could be use as a tribute to a 1950s-1960s team who was in the WHL or Seattle Mets/Metropolitans as a tribute to the first team in the United States to win the Stanley cup back in 1917.

The Washington Capitals unveils their Stanley Cup banner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvKhm6xlGlQ

[Bruce]

Totems might be a controversial name nowadays, given that totem poles aren't endemic to the Northwest (they're from Alaska) and it could be seen as exploiting indigenous imagery from the Alaskan Natives.

Metropolitans is the best name, by far, given that it's historic, neutral, and actually fits the identity of the modern city. It also plays with the Metro bus system, just like how the Sounders match the Sounder commuter train.

[PAHighways]

So long as the team name isn't crappy or offensive, hockey should thrive in Seattle. The city is hungry for an indoor sports team.

Seattle Indians?

Seattle Baristas

[hotdogPi]

So long as the team name isn't crappy or offensive, hockey should thrive in Seattle. The city is hungry for an indoor sports team.

Seattle Indians?

Seattle Baristas

Kirkland Trekkies

[rickmastfan67]

Seattle Homeless

[Alps]

Seattle Homeless

triggered

[jp the roadgeek]

Totems might be a controversial name nowadays, given that totem poles aren't endemic to the Northwest (they're from Alaska) and it could be seen as exploiting indigenous imagery from the Alaskan Natives.

Metropolitans is the best name, by far, given that it's historic, neutral, and actually fits the identity of the modern city. It also plays with the Metro bus system, just like how the Sounders match the Sounder commuter train.

Will their team colors be orange and blue?

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Seattle Homeless

Instead of Seattle "whatevers," call them the Jimi Nirvanas.

[ET21]

Hawks with 3 OT games to start the season, nabbed 5 of 6 points. Cam Ward cannot stop a beach ball

[Bruce]

NHL Seattle wants to build its offices and training rinks (including youth facilities) in Northgate, a redeveloped mall next to light rail.

https://www.nhlseattle.com/news-ice-centre.html

Personally, I think it's a waste of extremely valuable land next to transit. There's plenty of quasi-industrial land that could be used for low-rise buildings that are closer to downtown.

[ET21]

Joel Quennville has been relieved of coaching duties for the Chicago Blackhawks. He has the 2nd most wins in NHL history, the best record as a Blackhawks coach, the best playoff record as a Blackhawks coach, and 3 Stanley Cups. 

Jeremy Colliton, the AHL affiliate head coach for the Rockford Icehogs, will replace him and make his debut Thursday at home against Carolina. Details are still coming out

[Flint1979]

I'm not sure how much land there is near downtown Seattle to build a new arena. In Detroit, the land where Little Caesars Arena was built was vacant land and just required some abandoned buildings to be demolished but most of it was vacant land that was used for parking for Tigers and Lions games before construction started on the arena.

Little Caesars Arena seems to take up about four blocks. I know Comerica Park takes up six blocks. I've been looking at downtown Seattle on Google Maps and just can't figure out where a new arena would be built. I like the idea of the teams playing in the city limits of the city they represent and never liked the Pistons playing in Auburn Hills even though it's about 30 miles closer to my house than Little Caesars Arena is, although I haven't been to a Pistons game in about 25 years.

[jp the roadgeek]

Joel Quennville has been relieved of coaching duties for the Chicago Blackhawks. He has the 2nd most wins in NHL history, the best record as a Blackhawks coach, the best playoff record as a Blackhawks coach, and 3 Stanley Cups. 

Jeremy Colliton, the AHL affiliate head coach for the Rockford Icehogs, will replace him and make his debut Thursday at home against Carolina. Details are still coming out

This one hits home a little bit for me.  Along with Quenneville, assistants Kevin Dineen and Ulf Samuelsson were given the axe as well.  As a former Whaler season ticket holder, it's a sad day. 

[Henry]

I am shocked at this latest development involving Joel Quennville! At least the Blackhawks got three Stanley Cups out of him, so it's all good.

Also, I hope that the 32nd team does come to Seattle.

[Bruce]

I'm not sure how much land there is near downtown Seattle to build a new arena. In Detroit, the land where Little Caesars Arena was built was vacant land and just required some abandoned buildings to be demolished but most of it was vacant land that was used for parking for Tigers and Lions games before construction started on the arena.

Little Caesars Arena seems to take up about four blocks. I know Comerica Park takes up six blocks. I've been looking at downtown Seattle on Google Maps and just can't figure out where a new arena would be built. I like the idea of the teams playing in the city limits of the city they represent and never liked the Pistons playing in Auburn Hills even though it's about 30 miles closer to my house than Little Caesars Arena is, although I haven't been to a Pistons game in about 25 years.

The old plan was to build a new arena at 1st & Holgate just south of the Mariners ballpark formerly known as Safeco Field. Because it would have required a vacation of a street, the issue went before the city council and was denied due to some bribes from the port, a major landowner concerns about the street's vital nature to city commerce.

There's no place to build a new arena, short of SODO (which is industrial land on filled tideflats, prime target for an earthquake), Interbay (similar situation, but with a major railyard), and the Metro bus bases just south of I-90. The parking lot just north of CenturyLink Field would have made for a decent option had the condo and office towers not been built there recently. The rest of the city is too hilly or far from downtown and transit to be a realistic option.

If Seattleites would have accepted a suburban arena, there were a few options on the board, mainly in Tukwila at Interuban Avenue (requiring a new light rail station) or near Tukwila's commuter rail station (requiring more service). Otherwise, an arena in the slowly-developing are around downtown Bellevue would have been a suitable option.

[Flint1979]

I'm not sure how much land there is near downtown Seattle to build a new arena. In Detroit, the land where Little Caesars Arena was built was vacant land and just required some abandoned buildings to be demolished but most of it was vacant land that was used for parking for Tigers and Lions games before construction started on the arena.

Little Caesars Arena seems to take up about four blocks. I know Comerica Park takes up six blocks. I've been looking at downtown Seattle on Google Maps and just can't figure out where a new arena would be built. I like the idea of the teams playing in the city limits of the city they represent and never liked the Pistons playing in Auburn Hills even though it's about 30 miles closer to my house than Little Caesars Arena is, although I haven't been to a Pistons game in about 25 years.

The old plan was to build a new arena at 1st & Holgate just south of the Mariners ballpark formerly known as Safeco Field. Because it would have required a vacation of a street, the issue went before the city council and was denied due to some bribes from the port, a major landowner concerns about the street's vital nature to city commerce.

There's no place to build a new arena, short of SODO (which is industrial land on filled tideflats, prime target for an earthquake), Interbay (similar situation, but with a major railyard), and the Metro bus bases just south of I-90. The parking lot just north of CenturyLink Field would have made for a decent option had the condo and office towers not been built there recently. The rest of the city is too hilly or far from downtown and transit to be a realistic option.

If Seattleites would have accepted a suburban arena, there were a few options on the board, mainly in Tukwila at Interuban Avenue (requiring a new light rail station) or near Tukwila's commuter rail station (requiring more service). Otherwise, an arena in the slowly-developing are around downtown Bellevue would have been a suitable option.

The problem I was having with finding a suitable location and wondering why not that location was that the city is too hilly and everything is developed around downtown so there aren't too many options available and what would be available is too far from downtown. Why not just demolish Key Arena and build a new arena on that site? A new arena would most likely fit the block from Republican to Thomas and 1st N to the line that would be 2nd N if that street was a through street.