New Seattle Hockey Team Preps to Hit Ice With Two Legal Chiefs

A duo of general counsel are behind the rollout of the National Hockey League’s newest team, the Seattle Kraken, as they prepare to take the ice next year.

Seattle’s first hockey team is scheduled to play in the 2021-2022 season at the new Climate Pledge Arena. Lance Lopes, the Kraken’s executive vice president and general counsel, as well as Hewan Teshome, general counsel and senior vice president for both the team and arena, say there’s extensive legal work to be done in the meantime.

In the next year, this will include developing the region’s largest ice facilities, just north of ...