As you know, the Canucks are in a rebuild. Meanwhile, our Starbucks-sipping neighbours to the south are building from the ground up.
It was made official this week: Seattle is getting a hockey team.
Although the new expansion team won’t hit the ice until the 2021-’22 season, we can at least relish in the prospect of a fiery Pacific Northwest rivalry, one that will pit our Canucks against Seattle, which has never had an NHL team but did manage to be the setting for popular sitcom Frasier. That’s something.
