BC Primier starts the NHL smack talk with Gov. Inslee It's gonna be a long road to a 2020 showdown

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You may have heard that Seattle is getting an NHL team. Canada heard too -- and they're ready to talk some smack.

The Primier of British Columbia John Horgan met with Gov. Jay Inslee, and decided that it is never too early to start a rivalry.

He gifted Washington's governor with his very own Vancouver Canucks jersey which "has the number 20, in honor of the year we're going to start beating their team on a regular basis."

It looks like Seattle will be getting their own NHL team in 2020, so today I gave @GovInslee his very own @Canucks jersey. It has the number 20, in honour of the year we're going to start beating their team on a regular basis. pic.twitter.com/IBpbyPTUaS — John Horgan (@jjhorgan) October 10, 2018

NHL Seattle shared the tweet out but without any pithy reply; it seems for now Seattle hockey fans are just happy to be getting off the bench.

It may take some time to get up to the level of trolling that the Sounders are at with their rivals, the Portland Timbers -- creating an entire webpage devoted to dunking on them -- but with the first round of NHL season tickets going as fast as they did, trust that Seattle is ready to get just as rabid about its hockey team as it is about a whole lot of other things.