Excitement brewing for NHL expansion team in Seattle

Everywhere longtime NHL coach Dave Tippett goes in Seattle, people ask him two questions.

"One, 'What's the name going to be?' And two, 'Where do I get my tickets?'" Tippett said.

The more immediate question is when — not if — an NHL expansion team is coming to Seattle as the league's 32nd franchise and first in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The prospective owners will make their pitch to an executive committee of owners in New York on Tuesday with a vote by the full Board of Governors possible as early as December. It is a virtual certainty the puck drops in Seattle two or three years from now.