Attendance Figures for the NHL
Below is a graph that shows the average attendance by market over the last 10 seasons. Here are some comments: Canada has dropped off the last couple years because of Ottawa 2008-09 thru 2010-11. They rebounded this year but when Winnipeg was added, it dropped the average since their building has a capacity just over 15,000. In the […]
Seattle Comps
Isolating on Metro population only I feel the following NHL cities are good comps for Seattle: Population and Value is in Millions. The value numbers and rank are based on Forbes published values at the beginning of the 2011-12 season. I think it is tough to think that Seattle can do as well as Detroit with the history […]
Segmenting for Analysis
I’ve consolidated some data across multiple facets of the business around hockey. Instead of analyzing by city size and conventional demographics, I’ve classified the teams into hockey market buckets…pretty subjective but hopefully you get the point. There are 4 groupings of teams: Canada US Hockey Market US Non-traditional South Canada, well that’s all the Canadian teams […]
My executive summary on the Seattle Arena news
Here is my exec summary of the news over the last couple weeks: Sacramento looks close to coming up with a finance deal for a new arena. The tax payers are probably going to get fleeced since it isn’t going to a vote. There are so many hidden $ in these deals it is hard […]
Could the Islanders be the team destined for Seattle?
First off, this is just my theory but I will explain my logic: Islanders are nowhere close to an arena deal Ownership group recently said that they are no longer just looking at the NY area. The Islanders are the 2nd lowest valued team in the league and by moving the team to a new […]
How does a city get an NHL team?
The key for any city to get an NHL Team is to: 1) have an arena 2) have a willing and able owner or ownership group 3) have an available team either through relocation or expansion. It pretty much needs to happen in that order the right ownership group can influence all of them. ATL […]
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