It’s an exciting day in the hockey world for a couple of reasons. The NHL draft lottery will be held tonight, where we’ll find out which franchise will win the right to draft Alexis Lafreniere. We also expect the final announcement about hub cities to come today. The latest paints a close race between Edmonton and Toronto for the Canadian location. Toronto appears to have the edge, per TSN’s Pierre LeBrun. The final call could drop any minute now. In the meantime, let’s see what else is going on around the hockeysphere…
- There’s still no word on what the Seattle hockey franchise will use for a mascot, but Amazon secured the naming rights to the arena. The heretofore unnamed new home of Seattle hockey will be known as Climate Pledge Arena, per ESPN’s Emily Kaplan. Amazon’s bold new initiative aims to make Climate Pledge “the first arena in the world to earn net zero carbon certification by the International Living Future Institute.” In part inspired by Billie Eilish’s efforts to rid arenas on her tour of plastic waste, the arena will break new ground in eco-efforts for sporting arena. The green initiative includes programs that will source food locally, use 100% electric power, and make the ice from rainwater captured from the roof. The rainwater will be stored in an underground tank, and there may even be ways for the community to get involved. The 18,100 seat arena will also serve as the home arena for the Seattle Storm of the WNBA.
- The Buffalo Sabres continued the reshaping of their front office. About half of the scouting department was let go last week, but one of the remaining scouts, Jeremiah Crowe, was promoted yesterday to Director of Pro Scouting, per NHL.com’s Chris Ryndak. Crowe has been a scout for the Sabres for the past three years. Director of Analytics Jason Nightingale has also taken on the responsibilities of the Assistant Director of Scouting.
“The Socialist Flat-Earther Hockey Barn” now all but guarantees the team name will be either Sockeyes (Steelheads is already taken by Idaho in the ECHL) or the Azzkraken (as noted by some of our fellow PHR members). That BS about trademark delays almost certainly means they won’t get it right. Get ready to be the butt-end of jokes and slams by hockey fans everywhere, Seattle. And, I fully expect at least one of you guys to ask for the dissertation on the simplified explanation of the planetary warming cycle we are in. It is grounded in science fact, not fiction.
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@itsmeheyhi – You’re beginning to sound like Nikita Soshnikov…
pro tip: your rambling diatribes designed to make you sound smarter dont work.
just make your point and move on.
@itsmeheyhi – Better pro tip: Just ignore comments you don’t like and move on…
well there we go… I you were capable of a concise and coherent thought.
hope to see more of this in the future, thanks.
Not really suprised at anything that happens in Seattle these days. Maybe they’ll hire members from the fledgling nation of CHOP to provide security during games too!
Here’s a thought: How ’bout Amazon just do their carbon neutral thing and not virtue signal about it by emblazoning the arena with their very virtuous sounding arena name? Actual good deeds need not be advertised as such.