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Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018 - She~ton-Mason County Journal - Page B-1 Just a few weeks ago, all signs pointed toward the National Hockey League moving forward with its plan to have an expansion franchise begin play in the 2020-21 season in Seattle. Long in the works, Seattle's bid for an NHL hockey team is now nearly a reality. But on Mon- day, the league hinted that reality might have hit a- minor snag that could keep Seattle's yet-unnamed NHL franchise from making its debut on schedule. Though the NHL Board of Governors will likely vote in favor of Seattle's expansion bid during the league's annual meet- ings Dec. 3 and 4 in Sea Island, Georgia, a story posted Monday by Dan Rosen, NHL.com senior writer, casts some doubt as to whether the team will actually drop the puck for a 2020 inaugu- By MICHAEL ral season as it planned. HEINBACH Rosen writes that NHL Dep- uty Commissioner Bill Daly has heard rumblings that a refur- bished KeyArena, the future home of Seattle NHL hockey, isn't scheduled to reopen until November 2020, a month after the NHL campaign begins. In the eyes of the league, that doesn't bode well for the possibility for NHL hockey hosted in less than two years in the Emerald City. Rosen's story on NHL.com states that the league is wary of the Seattle ownership group's desire to thai iW 0 ~ ~ ~ I NHL fold'come the start of the 2020 regular season. He states the league is against having its newest franchise debut in a tempo- rary home. :'They've men- tioned that pos- sibility, but I don't think that's an ideal way to bring in an expansion franchise by play- ing in an alternate venue for any pe- riod of time, really," Daly told NHL.com. "We'll see how that plays out. I know they have an inter- est in starting in '20-21 and we'd like the accommodate them any way we can." I would think the NHL. which doesn't exactly have its talons completely sunk into the ma- jority of hearts of sports fans here in the Pacific Northwest, would bend over backwards to accommodate Seattle's NHL ownership group. Led by David Bonderman and Jerry Bruckheimer and fronted by CEO Tod Leiweke, the group plans to fork over a $650 million franchise fee to the league, and as a sports facilities investment group plans to spend an additional $700 to renovate KeyArena. Keep in mind that $700 million price tag should e t f an chi se , should the league take some interest in righting a wrong it committed in 10 years ago by allowing the see CORNER, page B-3 Journal photos by Shawna Whelan CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Rand Iverson, above, 72, of Matlock, reaches to hit the ball during a pickleball match Saturday at the Mason Transit Authority's Transit-Community Center in Shelton; a sign hangs-on the wall at the center; Iverson's opponent, Gordie Klein, 71, of Shelton, gets low for a return. 4,