ShoWare Center: five years by the numbers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u2022 More than 1.9 million patrons, which have taken advantage of the always free parking.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Highest attended concert was sold-out Florida Georgia Line on Dec. 14, 2013 with 7,129 people.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Brenden Silvester of the Seattle Thunderbirds scored the first goal in the arena’s history against the Everett Silvertips in a 4-3 Seattle win.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Has hosted 215 shows (not including sports tenants) with acts including Barry Manilow, Stone Temple Pilots, Kelly Clarkson, A Perfect Circle, Florida Georgia Line, Styx, Backstreet Boys, Boys II Men, American Idol Live!, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rise Against, Toby Mac, Brian McKnight, REO Speedwagon, Ginuwine, Megadeth, Blackstreet, Chris Tomlin, New Edition, Hillsong United, Dru Hill, Pretty Lights, Skate America, PBR, Strikeforce (MMA), Disney On Ice, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Harlem Globetrotters, Motorcycle Ice Racing, and many more.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jeremy Boyer was the first Seattle Thunderbird to record a Hat Trick (3 goals in a game) on March 15, 2009.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Zamboni has resurfaced the arena ice more than 8,500 times.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 More than 214,765 friends, family and local graduates have attended a graduation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 More than 650,000 patrons have attended a Thunderbirds game since opening.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Savor…, concessionaire for ShoWare Center, has served more than 105,000 hot dogs, 4,500 pounds of French fries and over 300,000 bottles of soda.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Shea Theodore is highest drafted Seattle Thunderbird to have played at ShoWare Center, selected by the Anaheim Ducks with the 26th pick of the 2013 NHL Draft.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s party time at the ShoWare Center in Kent, with fifth anniversary celebrations coming up Jan. 26-27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":4410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}