Prospective Seattle NHL team owners sell 10K season tickets in 12 minutes

Seattle appears to be hungry for hockey.

The city's potential NHL team owners sold 10,000 season tickets in the first 12 minutes and sat at 25,000 total tickets sold about an hour into their ticket drive Thursday.

Seattle's investors include Oak View Group, led by former Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment CEO Tim Leiweke, as well as legendary Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer and investment company billionaire David Bonderman.

They began their season-ticket push at 10 a.m. PST, or 1 p.m. ET.

Bruckheimer, Leiweke looking at NHL deposits come in.@NHLSeattle_ #NHL #Seattle pic.twitter.com/XLv6iUMLmk

- Chris Daniels (@ChrisDaniels5) March 1, 2018

KeyArena's capacity is about 17,500, but OVG is renovating the facility, and that process is expected to be completed in time for the 2020-21 NHL season.

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