Shea Theodore is the resident expert on Seattle, since the Golden Knights defenseman spent four years playing for the city’s Western Hockey League club as a junior.
He’s looking forward to returning a few seasons from now.
“I think it’s cool. It’s a great city,” Theodore said. “We were about an hour south of downtown, but any time we got a chance to go downtown — whether it was just walking around or checking it out for a day — it was great. Definitely, it’s going to be cool.”
Seattle was unanimously approved Tuesday as the NHL’s 32nd team in a vote by the league’s Board of Governors in Sea Island, Georgia.