Seattle’s NHL Team Gets Its First Sponsor

  • Insurance company will plaster its name on a new arena
  • Expansion franchise is two years away from taking the ice

The KeyArena in Seattle.

Photographer: Christopher Mast/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

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Seattle’s new National Hockey League franchise doesn’t have a name yet and won’t take the ice for another two years, but the team already passed a key business milestone.

The Seattle _______s have their first corporate sponsor: life-insurance firm Symetra Financial Corp. The Bellevue, Washington-based company will have its logo all over the team’s new arena, along with naming rights to one of the building’s two club areas.