Lightning owner scores big with Seattle tech firm

Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik, in a downtown St. Petersburg event last night, spoke publicly for one of the first times about the team's partial ownership in a Seattle tech firm.

Vinik spoke on a panel with fellow Tampa sports team owners Stuart Sternberg of the Tampa Bay Rays and Bryan Glazer, co-chairman of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The event was held at the Poynter Institute in downtown St. Petersburg, a nonprofit journalism education facility that owns the Tampa Bay Times.

“We want our fans to be a part of the game day experience,” says Vinik. “We want to engage our fans, especially millenials.”