mnkboy907 posted...
Wait, they didn't already have one?
Nope. Never had an NHL team. We're closing in on 100 years since the Seattle Metropolitans folded in 1924, the first ever US team to win the Stanley Cup (in 1917), and they were a PCHA team (which would later merge with the WHL) back during the era that they would contest with the NHA (now the NHL) for the Stanley cup. We've had junior league hockey teams all throughout the area since, but never one at the highest level.