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Seattle Kraken CEO explains why investors paid a premium to bring hockey back to the Emerald City

The Seattle Kraken, the National Hockey League’s 32nd team, will play its inaugural game on Tuesday night in Las Vegas. For the business minds behind the return of professional hockey to Seattle after a nearly century-long hiatus, the Kraken’s first game is a crucial step in a nearly $2 billion investment in the team. “When people think that there aren’t many opportunities left, we found this great frontier called Seattle,” Kraken CEO Tod Leiweke said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above)…. Source link

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