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Originally Posted by Jay Random
The Key Arena renovation project is primarily for the purpose of getting an NBA team back in Seattle. It doesn't matter how good a hockey market Seattle is, if the building projects to pay for itself with basketball and concerts. In that case, having a hockey team as a secondary tenant would be gravy.
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Right but this is where moving to Seattle costs the team millions in revenue a year, nevermind the relocation fee. I fully get why the arena would want as many tenants as possible, I just don't see anything but a financial calamity moving a team from the only real pro team in a hockey heavy market to being possibly the fifth option for pro sports fans (and possibly down the sixth or seventh overall when UDub is factored in) in a hockey market that is mostly unknown. If Seattle were some kind of homerun market they'd already have a team, even if it were in the current Key Arena.