Part 1 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.
Hockey arrived in the bustling Pacific Northwest boom town of Seattle in 1915. The story of the Metropolitans is chronicled in a book by author Kevin Ticen, "When It Mattered Most."
We discuss the birth of the Metropolitans with Kevin in the video below. Key to our discussion is coach Pete Muldoon. Besides fashioning a winning roster, Muldoon was a championship boxer, a trick skater... and his real name wasn't Pete Muldoon!