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Fri Jul 08 07:34am EDT

NHL arena coming to Seattle?

By Mark J. Miller

Kevin DurantIt was only three years ago that Kevin Durant and the rest of the Seattle SuperSonics folded up their green-and-gold uniforms for good and moved to Oklahoma City.

Now word comes that there are plans for an arena to be built in a Seattle suburb that could house an NHL team, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. The main focus of the plan is to try and lure an NHL team to Seattle, the online newspaper reports.

"From what I hear, we are talking about a private project in Bellevue," said Chris Daniels, a reporter for KING/5, the paper reports.

The Post-Intelligencer notes that "reports surfaced last week that Donald Levin, a Chicago tobacco merchant and movie producer, recently visited the Seattle area and expressed interest in a real estate development that would include an arena." Levin, by the way, owns the Chicago Wolves, a minor league affiliate of the Vancouver Canucks.

Daniels also said that he recently spoke with deputy NHL commissioner Bill Daly, who told him that "there is a group interested in bringing hockey to the Seattle area," but "he didn't want to get into too much detail."

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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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