Andy Jassy runs the world’s largest cloud computing business. He also just joined an NHL franchise ownership group trying to bring professional hockey to Seattle. So the new team operations and arena infrastructure will use Amazon Web Services technology, right? “I don’t think anyone has gone that far,” Jassy said. It’s too early to tell how Amazon will be involved in the potential NHL team playing at a proposed redeveloped KeyArena, just blocks away from the company’s headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. But Jassy is already jazzed to be apart of it all. GeekWire caught up with Jassy,… Read More
Seattle Freeze didn’t even make the list. Speculation about what name could be bestowed on a potential National Hockey League expansion team in Seattle turned interesting this week with the revelation that a number of domain names have been registered by the group renovating KeyArena. According to a report by Clark Rasmussen at DetroitHockey.net, 38 domains representing 13 potential team names were registered by a lawyer representing Oak View Group. While the group and Seattle haven’t been awarded a franchise yet — potentially the league’s 32nd — it’s never too early to drop the gloves and fight over which, if… Read More
OK, the Sonics aren’t coming back (just yet), but Seattle moved a step closer to giving hockey geeks (raise your hand — are you out there?) a reason to celebrate on Thursday when the NHL announced how it feels about an expansion franchise in the city. According to various reports — and tweets from Pierre LeBrun, a hockey guru for Canada’s The Sports Network — NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said during the league’s Board of Governors meetings in Florida Thursday that the process for expansion in Seattle has begun. And it’s not cheap. Bettman announces that the NHL Board of… Read More
Forget the Kiss Cam. In Canada, they’re going for the Kiss-Up, eh? Fans at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, went to see an NHL hockey game between the hometown Senators and the visiting Canucks from Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday night. We are currently cheering for Amazon to set up shop in Ottawa during a TV timeout. I’m not making this up. #Canucks #Sens pic.twitter.com/0OuIVQ4S3d — Jyrki21 (@Jyrki21) October 18, 2017 By the 13:47 mark of the second period, they were being asked to cheer against not only Vancouver, but Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto, too, as the video screen… Read More
The Spectacles made it into the sports world. Snap Inc., formerly known as Snapchat, has caused a stir with its new camera-embedded sunglasses that are only available on a limited basis via pop-up vending machines. The Minnesota Wild managed to get its hands on a pair and became the first NHL squad to test the device during Wednesday’s game versus Winnipeg. The Wild, which partnered with marketing agency space150 for the experiment, pushed out a variety of fun content by utilizing the $130 Spectacles, which have a small camera on the upper right part of the glasses that allows users to easily film… Read More
