A rivalry that's been dormant for nearly 100 years will be renewed when the Kraken host the Canucks in their first-ever home opener. imacSportsnet provides a preview into the much anticipated matchup in Seattle.
on Saturday night in the first NHL game in Seattle since the fabled teams from the east came out to defend the Stanley Cup four generations ago.
“It's amazing,” Kraken chief operating officer Victor de Bonis said Friday. “There's nothing like it in the world. It's the most beautiful arena in the world. It's like going through a museum.”Raised five blocks from the Pacific Coliseum in East Vancouver, where the Canucks spent their first 25 years in the NHL, de Bonis’ first job was parking cars at Canucks games. He could tell from the noise inside how the home team was doing.
De Bonis remembers, as most sports fans do who grew up in Metro Vancouver, driving across the border once or twice a year to attend major sporting events in Seattle. Mariners baseball games in the summer, Seahawks football games in the fall, sometimes for soccer, which for the last 40 years has been the most tangible example of the Seattle-Vancouver rivalry.
“There's so many hockey people in that area,” Canucks coach Travis Green said. “You talk about the junior teams, there was Tri-Cities , Spokane, Everett, Seattle. There's so many hockey people in that area being so close to the Canadian border. Maybe it's surprising to some other people, but there's a lot of hockey people in the Northwest.”
“I think once that border opens, you're really going to see that rivalry take off with fans being able to cross both ways to go to their team's games.”
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