This is a great piece of information relating to the possible move of the Phoneix Coyotes to Hamilton.
James Mirtle wrote a nice post showing that the ‘coyoes only had 11K people go through the turnstiles, on average, every night. That is over 3K less then they announce at actual games…
http://www.fromtherink.com/2009/6/3/897211/the-coyotes-attendance-figures
Read the ‘good news’ from his post…
The good news? A lot of those tickets that weren’t used were at least paid for (this season anyway). Paid attendance figures are actually up significantly from where they were in the first season after the lockout, when the team apparently sold just 11,340 per game and yet announced attendance of 15,570.
Paid tickets went up this year? Something fishy about this…
Mr. Suck what else aren’t you telling the NHL fans…are the $200 a seat tickets in Toronto subsidizing the ‘coyote?
what a great site, only found it recently. keep up the good work. If bettman had half a brain he would have been trying to expand the sport to serious growth markets… looks like he was asleep at the wheel and the russians beat him to it. In 10 years time when the kids in china are wearing their favourite khl jersey we will all know who was asleep at the wheel.
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this is the best anti-Bettman video yet, encapsulates all the Bettman sucks rants you’ve been making – Keep it Up!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejdPx7e22CM