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November NHL Attendance Report: Numbers still strong
November proved to be another good month for the NHL reported attendance numbers. Attendance was up 1% compared to games in November of 2011 and is up 2% for the first two months of the season compared to 2011. 2% might not sound like much but in a league where half the teams sellout every team, that is significant. Big gainers […]
Arena progressing and potential NHL ownership group in town
UPDATED 11AM PST: Check the bottom of the post. Chris Daniels teased us for about 24 hours when he tweeted that he would have an exclusive interview with Hansen to get an arena update and talk NHL first scenario. Remember – after #MNF, tune into KONG or KING5 for the exclusive interview w/ Chris Hansen on […]
October NHL Attendance
With this first month of the season wrapping up on Thursday, I figure it would be a good time to revisit one of my favorite topics of NHL attendance. Let me state this up front, the purpose of writing this up is not to determine who could be a relocate target. Anyone that has been […]
Canadian impact on Mariners Attendance
by John Long story short but I met a friend outside of Safeco on Tuesday night right around first pitch of the Mariners-Jays baseball game. He was running late so I was loitering around for about 15 minutes. I always knew that a lot of local Canadians would go check out the Jays when they […]
NHL Attendance through Feb 9th
I posted the following tweats today and thought I would post them here for anyone that didn’t catch them in their timeline or are Tweeters. Through yesterday’s games compared to like games last year #NHLAttendance is up 5% #whatlockout Only 3 teams have lower attendance this year: Leafs -1%, Rangers -5% and Blues -8% TOR […]
The Sacramento Kings news and what it means to a potential NHL team in Seattle
As I imagine most of your Seattle readers and even fringe NBA fans, news broke yesterday that the Maloofs are close to selling the Sacramento Kings to Seattle SoDo Arena backed group led by Chris Hansen & Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The intent of the purchase will be to move the team next season to […]
Why the Islanders could be headed to Seattle in 2015-2016
On the surface, you would think the there is no way a team with a storied history like the New York Islanders could be a relocation target but when you peel back the layers you see a failing franchise with no relief to their Arena woes in sight. You see, the Islanders play in a […]
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