Seattle Group defends the expansion team of the NHL.
Seattle Group defends the expansion team of the NHL.
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Key stakeholders who tried to bring a new NHL franchise to Seattle presented their case to a group of team owners on Tuesday, emerging after a private two-hour meeting with cautious optimism that the league will accept their plan to begin. play as soon as the 2020 21 season.
Seattle Hockey Partners president and CEO Tod Leiweke, majority owner David Bonderman, mayor Jenny Durkan and minority owners Jerry Bruckheimer and David Wright were among those who met with the executive committee of the NHL Board of Governors .
Now it is up to the league to decide the next steps, including a full board vote, possibly on December 3, on whether to award Seattle the 32nd franchise in the league.
"I am very confident that we can move forward and get what we need from the NHL and the team and meet the schedule so that we have hockey by 2020," said Durkan. "They know we want it in 2020 and (the league) would also like to have it in 2020, if we get the team."
The NHL had been in 30 teams since 2000, when it decided in 2016 to expand to Las Vegas. The Golden Knights started playing a year ago and made an exciting race towards the Stanley Cup Final in its inaugural season.
That process began with a season trip that the league approved in the winter of 2014 to see if Las Vegas would be a viable hockey market. Seattle sold 10,000 seasonal ticket deposits in 12 minutes, and team officials say they now have 32,000 while increasing the excitement over the return of a major professional winter sports team in the largest market in the United States without one.
Ticket numbers, a plan to begin renovating KeyArena in downtown Seattle and a video showing the benefits of the Seattle expansion were part of the presentation in the league office.
"With the help of the mayor, what we tried to convey was that Seattle is ready for a team, that we potentially have a facility to be built, an association with the city and we're leaving," Bonderman said. "All we need is a franchise."
All signs point to Seattle to get a team. Beyond the $ 650 million expansion fee, a team would give the NHL a presence in the Pacific Northwest of the US. UU With a natural geographic rival for the Vancouver Canucks and balance the Eastern and Western conferences in 16 teams each.
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly last month mentioned 2021 as a possible start date if the board approves a Seattle franchise. A start in 2020 could be hampered if the owners or players vote in September 2019 to terminate the current collective bargaining agreement; If a new labor agreement is not reached, it will expire on September 15, 2020, a few weeks before the season.
Leiweke said the state of the CBA did not reach the executive committee, and he and Bonderman pointed out that 2020 vs. 2021 was not as important as the overall goal of getting a franchise.
"This is not about (one) year, this is forever," Bonderman said. "This is a long-term partnership with the city and the long-term problems, and you will not be overwhelmed by some short-term problems."
Leiweke, who along with his brother Tim spearheads the effort, was careful to say that the group is not assuming that a team is made. The presentation was the last and most important sales job, and now the league must take the next step.
"It's the NHL that controls this process," Leiweke said. "We're not presumptuous, we're not going to be in front of them and we're not going to declare an early victory, we're going to wait and be patient and be completely respectful, it's been a long time to come, and we can be patient."
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