The Treat: Producer Jerry Bruckheimer on co-owning the NHL’s Seattle Kraken
The Treatment
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🗓️ 10 December 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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After trying to buy a number of hockey teams, prolific TV/film producer Jerry Bruckheimer discusses the joys of co-owning the NHL’s Seattle Kraken.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Elvis Mitchell. It's The Treat from legendary film producer Jerry Brockheimer. |
| 0:05.2 | He offers something that's icy and inviting. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Jerry Brookheimer and this is The Treat. |
| 0:38.3 | I played hockey when I was a little kid poorly and started playing again when I got to California. And I always dreamt about being part of professional sports. |
| 0:42.3 | And so I met an individual named Harry Sloan. |
| 0:46.3 | And Harry is a big financial wizard. |
| 0:49.3 | And we started this quest to try to buy a hockey team or develop a hockey team and |
| 0:54.6 | an NHL team. |
| 0:56.1 | And he eventually introduced me to a man named David Bonderman, was another financial wizard. |
| 1:01.2 | He's like the Michael Jordan of finances. |
| 1:04.3 | He stumbled around and tried to buy a number of teams, |
| 1:11.6 | but we eventually, through Tim Lewicki, |
| 1:15.6 | we figured out a way to take the key arena in Seattle |
| 1:18.6 | and turn it into a brand new arena |
| 1:21.6 | and convinced the city and then the NHL to build the arena |
| 1:26.6 | and then give us an expansion team. |
| 1:32.3 | We're in our second season. It's called the Seattle Cracken. |
| 1:35.3 | And I'm so thrilled that actually we're starting to win this season, which is nice. |
| 1:40.3 | But it was always a dream to be a part of a sports franchise, and now I'm a minority owner of the Seattle Cracken. |
| 1:49.2 | We had a website that the fans put down their favorite names, and that's the one that kind of won the lottery, and that's how we ended up with the Cracken. |
| 2:07.6 | Music won the lottery and that's how we ended up with the cracking. It's not as stressful as the movie business or the television business, so I get great |
| 2:12.6 | thrills on it every time we have a win. So for me, that's that's enjoyment and something that I've been |
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