Part 6 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.
In past episodes, we've detailed the teams which have taken to the ice since 1915 wearing "Seattle" on their sweaters. The roll call: Metropolitans, Eskimos, Sea Hawks, Olympics, Ironmen, Bombers, and Americans.
The Americans changed their name to the Seattle Totems in 1958, and played under that name as Seattle's final professional hockey team prior to the Kraken. They ultimately folded in 1975 during the city's failed first attempts to land an NHL franchise.
The Totems captured three Western Hockey League titles in 1959, 1967 and 1968. They missed out on a fourth because they were forced to play all seven games of the finals on the road!
Another milestone for the Totems: moving into the spacious, 12,700-seat Seattle Center Coliseum.
Jeff Obermeyer, author of two books on Seattle hockey, discusses the Totems era in the video clip below.