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Post by Boston_Habs on Feb 20, 2018 19:26:07 GMT -5
Seattle will be team #32.
The league has basically been holding the spot open for a team from the Pacific Northwest (either Seattle or Portland) and wanted to get a bid from Seattle last time, but they didn't have the group and bid together in time.
Now they do. They have the requisite billionaire owners (hedge fund mogul David Bonderman and filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer) and an arena already in place that can be renovated to accommodate an NHL/NBA franchise.
It's a good market for the NHL. The West needs another team, Seattle has a track record with the sport, it's relatively affluent, and there are plenty of natural rivalries in place with Vancouver and San Jose.
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Post by blny on Feb 20, 2018 20:26:27 GMT -5
They're definitely pushing this one through. I think the CBA will be the interesting factor. Both sides can opt out September 2019. That would be the earliest the club would start playing. I'd imagine that Bruckheimer and co. would want some assurance that neither side will opt out before passing over the final cheque.
Metropolitans would be the sentimental choice for a name.
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Post by CentreHice on Feb 21, 2018 10:44:03 GMT -5
Guess whose company is overseeing the renovations of the KeyArena complex? Tim Leiweke's Oak View Group. From June 2017[Oak View Group] will spearhead a $564 million gut remodel of the facility on the Seattle Center campus. They are also bringing some blockbuster power with them – two prospective NHL owners.
A source close to the project says Leiweke will announce that his Seattle effort will be joined by Boston Celtics Minority Owner David Bonderman, a billionaire and University of Washington grad, and Jerry Bruckheimer, the Hollywood action movie mogul, who most recently pioneered the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.
Both Bonderman and Bruckheimer are expected to announce soon their intention to attract an NHL expansion franchise to be an anchor tenant in the facility, according to a source close to the project. |
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Post by blny on Feb 21, 2018 10:55:14 GMT -5
Guess whose company is overseeing the renovations of the KeyArena complex? Tim Leiweke's Oak View Group. From June 2017[Oak View Group] will spearhead a $564 million gut remodel of the facility on the Seattle Center campus. They are also bringing some blockbuster power with them – two prospective NHL owners.
A source close to the project says Leiweke will announce that his Seattle effort will be joined by Boston Celtics Minority Owner David Bonderman, a billionaire and University of Washington grad, and Jerry Bruckheimer, the Hollywood action movie mogul, who most recently pioneered the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.
Both Bonderman and Bruckheimer are expected to announce soon their intention to attract an NHL expansion franchise to be an anchor tenant in the facility, according to a source close to the project.I knew he was involved, but couldn't remember the capacity. |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Feb 22, 2018 10:17:52 GMT -5
What's the price to just sit at the table ... is it still $500 million ... add that to the figures I read earlier in the thread and that's serious coin ...
Cheers.
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Post by Tankdriver on Feb 24, 2018 22:11:13 GMT -5
What's the price to just sit at the table ... is it still $500 million ... add that to the figures I read earlier in the thread and that's serious coin ... Cheers. Last I heard it was 650 million USD. |
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