NHL approves expansion team for Seattle
By KIRO7.com
Posted: 12:40 p.m. Tuesday, December 04, 2018
SEA ISLAND, Ga. —
The National Hockey League officially approved an expansion team for Seattle on Tuesday, but the first game at KeyArena may happen a year later than first thought.
As expected, the NHL Board of Governors, made up of 31 team owners from the United States and Canada, voted for Seattle to get the NHL’s 32nd franchise.
A year ago this week, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced the NHL would consider taking an expansion application from Seattle.
Ten months after that, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and an executive committee recommended Seattle be approved for a team. The deal was officially sealed in a Tuesday morning board vote in Sea Island, Georgia.
Durkan led the city's pitch for the NHL to choose Seattle, and it worked.
The mayor said her effort came from her heart as a hockey fan. She was one of the 25,000-plus fans who scrambled to put a down payment on tickets online.
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