Beloved Andy Eide, dead at 53, ‘helped facilitate a hockey market when there wasn’t an NHL team’

Perfect day to come inside for a big Pacific Division battle! Those would be Andy Eide’s final public words, tweeted two hours before suffering a stroke in the Climate Pledge Arena press box before a Kraken game against the Edmonton Oilers on March 18. But the sentiment in Eide’s tweet applied to most days of his final decade when he discovered his true calling and fulfillment among indoor rinks of the greater Seattle region. Eide, 53, who died Friday without ever fully regaining consciousness, had fallen in love with hockey...