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Originally Posted by tomo
The grass roots hockey programs are in full bloom here now.
The Greater Seattle Hockey League is the largets in the northwest and one of the largets hockey leagues in the United States. Tonight one of the league reps told me it is bigger than the leagues in Chicago.
The Seattle Times reported that there is three proposed plans and one has been submitted to city counsel already (which would be next to Safeco field). Rumor around town is that Paul Allen is part of it. They were also saying that Bellevue would be preferred for NBA/NHL because when the Sonics were around around 60-70% of season ticket holders were from the Eastside (Bellevue/Redmond/etc..).
The Paul Allen thing makes a lot of sense to me. Correct me if I am wrong but didn't he try to buy the Canucks in the late 90's? He owns the Portland Trailblazers, do the blazers move to Seattle?
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Wasn't aware of it, if Allen wanted them he could have bought them, the Nucks weren't really expensive in the late 90's so I doubt he was interested.
I do recall there was fear that he would to ship them to Portland but I think that was more newspaper fearmongering after the Grizzlies were sold/shipped.