Should the City of Seattle Get an NHL Team?
Missed this one a few days ago... a few insights on Seattle sports successes (for the most part).
The Question, Asked Plainly
The piece ran at NESN.com under the NHL heading and put the question in its title: should the City of Seattle get an NHL team? The post here is a pointer to it, flagged as something missed a few days earlier.
Why It Landed on This Site
Seattle sports successes, for the most part, is how the note frames it. The link was filed under Hockey with the tags NHL and NHL Seattle, in the middle of a run of posts about where the next franchises should land.
What the Post Leaves to NESN
The argument itself lives on the other side of the link. What is here is the verdict that the question was worth asking at all, at a moment when Seattle was being named in nearly every expansion and relocation conversation.
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