1928-1945: 2nd Era Of Seattle Hockey

Part 5 Of Our Seattle Hockey History Video Series

Editor's Note: I host a weekly YouTube show, Hockey Time Machine, most Thursdays at 4 pm Pacific time. Guests have included Hall of Famers Bryan Trottier, Yvan Cournoyer and Lanny McDonald.

All this week, we'll feature video excerpts from a show we did with authors and historians about Seattle's century-plus of hockey history.

Between 1928 and the end of World War II, a number of different pro franchises represented hockey in Seattle. 

The renaissance was kick-started by the building of a new Civic Arena. The first home ice team was known by the name Eskimos. The second was called Sea Hawks.

That's right... Sea Hawks. Win a bar bet by knowing that the first Seattle pro team to use that nickname played hockey, not football - even if they split the name into two words. After that came the Olympics, who lasted until the start of the Second World War. By war's end, the Ironmen had taken up the mantle. 

Seattle Metropolitan stalwarts, including Pete Muldoon and Frank Foyston, would return to be part of this second era of the city's hockey history.

We discuss that and more with sports historian David Eskenazi, in the clip below.