New investors want NHL and NBA in Seattle..

[IndyHawk]

http://www.sportsbreak.com/nhl/investor ... nba-teams/ I came across this .They want to put up a 500 million arena.Bellevue is one of 2 possible locations.Its sounding more like build for NHL to get NBA later.
GO ICE HAWKS :th2thumbs:

 

[Sports Hernia]

IMHO, the only way an arena will get built is if it is an NHL first arena.

Stern JR doesn't want to even think about an NBA team to Seattle until a new arena exists.

The NBA is dead to me, so an NHL first arena is fine with me! 8)

 

[Hawk-Lock]

After the Sacramento Kings dibacle....wake me up when we actually get something done.

 

[IndyHawk]

The NBA has been dead to me too and yeah if all we get is NHL then I'm happy with it.At least they have shown they want to be in Seattle.The NBA just uses us as some threat to pull another Sonics on someone.

 

[BIGNORMANHAND]

More:
http://seattletimes.com/html/othersports/2025624398_nhlarena05xml.html#.VNLsIDB68EU.email

 

[Trenchbroom]

GO ICE HAWKS :th2thumbs:

Me LIKEY! :mrgreen:

 

[ZorntoLargent]

GO ICE HAWKS :th2thumbs:

Me LIKEY! :mrgreen:

Metropolitans

 

[Trenchbroom]

GO ICE HAWKS :th2thumbs:

Me LIKEY! :mrgreen:

Metropolitans

Rather have the Thunderbirds.

 

[ZorntoLargent]

That name is kinda taken already

 

[BIGNORMANHAND]

That name is kinda taken already

I love the Tbirds colors and logos. I really hope if we get an NHL team, they
stick with our blue and green color scheme, and use American Indian art
as a guide for the logos.

If we do get an NHL team, what do you think will happen to the Tbirds?

 

[ZorntoLargent]

That name is kinda taken already

I love the Tbirds colors and logos. I really hope if we get an NHL team, they
stick with our blue and green color scheme, and use American Indian art
as a guide for the logos.

If we do get an NHL team, what do you think will happen to the Tbirds?

Nothing will happen to the TBirds.
WHL isn't a farm club for A specific team.

I would say keep with the themed Seattle colors of blue green gray, Metropolitans is WAY old school, or we could bring back the Totems.
Totems makes the most sense. It was the team name before the Breakers.

 

[BIGNORMANHAND]

I guess in terms of the Tbirds, I didn't even think about the "farm team" aspect, so
much as attendance. I had friends in Phoenix who were huge Roadrunners fans,
but after 10 years of dwindling attendance after the Coyotes arrived, the Roadrunners
went belly up. Sadly, for the past 5+ years, those same friends have really
been missing their Roadrunners.

I say all that to say, is it likely that Seattle hockey fans will continue to support
the Tbirds at the same level? Is it possible an NHL presence in the area could
actually be GOOD for the Tbirds?

 

[Hasselbeck]

No idea why this hasn't been the idea from the get go. The NHL .. WANTS to be here. Not only that but it will be very successful when it does happen. Hockey would be big here.

 

[Throwdown]

yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn

We'll see, Bellevue wants an arena, but they don't wanna help pay, can't blame 'em but you know.

Its just hard to get excited about anything when it comes to arena stuff anymore.

 

[chris98251]

Well the arrogance is the issue, if the two cities would work together this could be a done deal, Bellevue wanst to one up Chris Hansen who already did a lot of the investing, legwork and made the connections. Now Bellevue wants to wedge their way into the situation creating a competeing situation that is going to put both cities against each other and drive cost and other things up. DUMB.

 

[BlueBlood]

NHL Names

Seattle Slickers

Seattle Turbulance

Seattle Windhawks

Seattle Arrows

Seattle Sealions

 

[DynoHawk]

Seattle Sonichawks

 

[BIGNORMANHAND]

SeattleSportsCentral put out the following list of names, based on reader
suggestions. "Thunderbirds" won with 41%.

Freeze
Sockeyes
Rain (Reign)
Sasquatches
Cascades
Emeralds
Chinooks
Shadow
Sealions
Pilots
Orcas
Breakers
Bombers
Metropolitans
Flight
Storm
Steelheads
Pacifics
Pioneers
Merchants
Jetliners
Olympics
Salmons
Sting
Ice Dogs
Red Hooks
Grays
Argonauts
Kraken
Phantoms
Ice Breakers
Samurai
Tritons
Blades
Seals
Trackers
Tomahawks
Greenwaves
Ice Hawks
Admirals
Lumberjacks
Stealth
Blizzard
Glaciers
Thunderhawks
Axemen
Seawolves
Soundwaves
Sound
Grizzlys

 

[CurryStopstheRuns]

NHL Names

Seattle Slickers

Seattle Turbulance

Seattle Windhawks

Seattle Arrows

Seattle Sealions

These are all really bad.

 

[Sports Hernia]

yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn

We'll see, Bellevue wants an arena, but they don't wanna help pay, can't blame 'em but you know.

Its just hard to get excited about anything when it comes to arena stuff anymore.

I'm with you here. But man, I want the NHL in Seattle so badly!

One thing the NHL has done very poorly though the years is promote TO the PNW thru existing teams. Vancouver is 2 hours to the North of here, and as long as they've been a team I've never seen them televised on a regular basis down here. They've missed out on a huge cluster of potential fans IMHO.

Shoot, when I was a kid, we got Portland rastlin' out of some old crusty smoke filled 3/4ths empty area, but rarely any Vancouver Canucks hockey.