An Expansion NHL Team is Coming to the City of Seattle, Washington The squad will be the 32nd <br />to enter the league. This gives the NHL 16 teams in both the Western and Eastern conferences. Seattle's franchise will join the NHL starting in the 2021-22 season. They will play at KeyArena, which served as the home of the Seattle Supersonics until 2008. The building will have a capacity of <br />17,400 for hockey games. To create the team, Seattle's club will get to select one unprotected player from each of the NHL's 31 other franchises.
