📍 Everett, Washington
🏒 Home of the Everett Silvertips

Sponsored by the Stillaguamish Tribe’s Angel of the Winds Casino Resort, Snohomish County’s premier entertainment venue has been a steady home for the northwesternmost major junior hockey club in the nation, the Everett Silvertips of the Western Hockey League. The facility opened in 2003 and, with a max capacity of just over 10,000, Angel of the Winds Arena has long served as an important auxiliary event site for the Seattle metro area.

Boasting a flexible design that can adapt to sports like roller derby and indoor football – which are both held here regularly – in addition to musicals, rodeos and trade shows, the arena is no stranger to accommodating a wide variety of spectacles. But hockey has remained its primary use, even hosting several high-level sellout games. Before the NHL returned to the Pacific Northwest in 2021, the league put on a few exhibition events in Everett to test the waters in the region. Then, just prior to kicking off their inaugural campaign, the Seattle Kraken competed here in a preseason tilt against Edmonton. A year later, the Coachella Valley Firebirds – the Kraken’s AHL affiliate – would welcome Calgary to Angel of the Winds Arena for the facility’s first-ever minor league game.

Whether it’s happened inside this building or at the Olympics halfway around the world, the northern Seattle suburbs have been the origin of some magical sports moments and produced some big athletic talent along the way. Names such as former MLB pitcher Adam Eaton, wrestler Randy Couture and top college and professional hockey player Brooke Whitney are enshrined in the Snohomish County Sports Hall of Fame, displayed throughout large glass cases on the arena concourse. Elsewhere, a large wall mural highlights regional sports accomplishments broken down by year.

As for the Silvertips, they’ve written a successful story of their own. The team has won two regular season crowns – most recently in 2025 – and advanced to two conference championships as well, sadly falling in both their 2004 and 2018 bids. But the ‘Tips can still claim that, throughout their more than two decades in Everett, they haven’t ever missed the postseason – not even once.

In addition to their on-ice prowess, the Silvertips organization has built something special here at Angel of the Winds. The atmosphere inside this barn is top-notch for the WHL – from the blow of the in-house train horn and the sound of fans yelling “Da Bears” after every goal, to the mascot Lincoln jumping and skidding his ATV all around the ice to get the crowd going. The team has even introduced a FanBoni, a modified ice cleaning machine that gives fans a cool new way to enjoy a night out at the rink. The food options here are also of great quality and variety, with offerings ranging from hard cider and chocolate-covered fruit to local espresso and Alaskan fish & chips.

Between their stellar resume and well-kept digs, the Silvertips have – like their grizzly namesake – marked their territory. This is their house. Everett is their town.