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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 12:09 pm 
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Approved for expansion

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Covering up the league's financial failings with expansion money is how we got the second lockout.

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Curious Hair wrote:
Covering up the league's financial failings with expansion money is how we got the second lockout.

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Seattle is a rabid sports city. This franchise should be fine. Had 25,000 deposits for season tickets in 1 hour. Took Vegas 2 days to get 5,000 deposits.


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Big Chicagoan wrote:
Seattle is a rabid sports city. This franchise should be fine. Had 25,000 deposits for season tickets in 1 hour. Took Vegas 2 days to get 5,000 deposits.

ONCE AGAIN,,,,

thats because MANY in VEGA$$ holding out for Season Tix to the SOX wheN JERRY moves them thier?


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 Post subject: Re: Seattle
PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:50 pm 
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This is the NHL's third attempt at a Seattle team, and the first two were scuttled in the goofy-ass ways that always seem to attend NHL business affairs.

During the NHL v. WHA era, the plan was to pounce on open cities so the WHA couldn't, hence the 1972 expansion to Washington and Atlanta and the 1974 expansion to Long Island and Kansas City. There was also to be a 1976 expansion to Denver and Seattle. The latter was probably going to be named the Totems. But a funny thing happened: the Kansas City Scouts were such a miserable disaster that after only two seasons, they packed up and moved to Denver, where they would become the Colorado Rockies. With one of the two expansion destinations accounted for, rather than pick a new one, they cancelled the expansion and left Seattle out in the dust. The Denver team lasted six years before becoming the Devils.

The second failed attempt came when the league was expanding for 1992. Barry Ackerley, then the owner of the Supersonics, was in charge of the bid for Seattle's expansion team. But when he got to the league office to present his case, he turned around and went back home: his only plan was to preclude a co-tenant that would cannibalize the Sonics' market. That expansion slot most likely became the Senators. Now Seattle has hockey, but no Sonics.

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