Posts About "Attendance"
NHL Attendance Leaves a Lot to Be Desired
September 26th, 2019 When the Associated Press ran a story with the headline stating that NHL teams were trying to get fans to come to games instead of watching it on television, you could hear an audible chuckle from me. Why would the NHL in the last year of its national broadcast rights deal with NBC try and drive value away from what should be a...
Hurricanes Attendance: 'Chicken or Egg'?
October 26th, 2017 The Carolina Hurricanes returned home Tuesday night for a tilt against the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning. Having started this October better than those in recent years, the Hurricanes had on their home ice one of the NHL's hottest teams. The Lightning also feature one of the league's hottest forwards, Nikita Kucherov. For hockey fans, and...
Why Did the Senators Have Empty Playoff Seats?
May 29th, 2017 The Ottawa Senators were one game away from the Stanley Cup Finals, but a lot of talk surrounding the team was about the empty seats in Ottawa. Ticketmaster map for Game 6 in Ottawa tonight, 11 hours out from the opening faceoff. #NHLPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/nQMHKuWv9T — Empty Seats Galore (@EmptySeatsPics) May 23, 2017 This...
Baffling Attendance at Senators Games, Still There's Hope
May 12th, 2017 Tickets for the Oilers’ first-round playoff game against the San Jose Sharks sold out in five minutes. Prices to see a Maple Leafs playoff game ranged from $90 to $420, and yet 19,861 fans showed up to support them on April 17, and 19,838 on April 19. And since the Air Canada Centre’s capacity for hockey games is 20,270, that’s...
Golden Knights: Second Favourite Team for Canadians?
December 29th, 2016 There is plenty of buzz about the Vegas Golden Knights — especially north of the 49th parallel. Canadians love their hockey, and many also love Las Vegas. So with the Golden Knights coming to Sin City next season, some of their biggest fans could be coming from above the border. Certainly, fans of the seven Canadian teams — and...
Fan Attendance: Does Winning Actually Bring in the Crowds?
February 17th, 2016 "If you build it, they will come" --Someone who clearly wants an ice hockey team in the desert The existential struggle of understanding why we, as a society, flock to arenas and cheer on our favorite gladiator team is a never ending battle. Many of us have our special reason why our team is, in fact, our team. "My dad loved them and...
