{"id":159341,"date":"2018-12-04T11:23:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=159341"},"modified":"2018-12-04T16:08:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T22:08:03","slug":"nhl-to-expand-to-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=159341","title":{"rendered":"The National Hockey League to expand to Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/NHLlogo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-159346 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/NHLlogo-1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/NHLlogo-1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/NHLlogo-1-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/NHLlogo-1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/NHLlogo-1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>SEA ISLAND, Ga. (AP) \u2014 The National Hockey League is expanding to Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>The NHL Board of Governors unanimously approved adding Seattle as the league&#8217;s 32nd franchise on Tuesday. Play will begin in 2021 to allow enough time for arena renovations. The as-yet unnamed franchise will be the Emerald City&#8217;s first major winter sports team since the NBA&#8217;s SuperSonics left town in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said at a watch party in Seattle: &#8220;I got a call from a mole in the room and it was a unanimous vote. We&#8217;re getting hockey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decision was widely expected after the Seattle Hockey Partners group impressed the board&#8217;s executive committee in October and had all the ingredients the NHL was looking for. Strong ownership led by billionaire David Bonderman and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, a downtown arena in a sports-crazed city and a season-ticket drive that drummed up 10,000 orders in 12 minutes all cleared the way for the NHL to add another team less than three years after approving a franchise in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>The owners will pay a $650 million expansion fee, up from the $500 million the Vegas Golden Knights paid to join the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEA ISLAND, Ga. (AP) \u2014 The National Hockey League is expanding to Seattle. The NHL Board of Governors unanimously approved adding Seattle as the league&#8217;s 32nd franchise on Tuesday. Play will begin in 2021 to allow enough time for arena renovations. The as-yet unnamed franchise will be the Emerald City&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159359,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159341\/revisions\/159359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/159346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}