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Originally Posted by lvsteven
Well Vegas always pays more for events. Every year the NHL has the "frozen fury" pre season game at the MGM grand garden arena to good crowds. That is a 20,000 seat venue.
Somehow the wranglers do well. The games draw 7000 fans each game.
There are over 2,000,000 people unofficially in the las Vegas metropolitan area and the joke is you never ever meet people "from" here.
That being said the people here who are broke are broke. Were they any better before the recession? hard to say.
One thing Vegas has a lot of is money.
If Caesars entertainment or MGM mirage wanted a sports franchise it would rival the money of any ownership group anywhere.
They also would fill seats every game with gaming comp...
Interestingly enough Vegas is primarily made up of east coasters and canadians.
Not an easy market to get into as a "home t but certainly sustainable with the tourists who come here, especially from Canada.
The real issue is sports betting. The NFL won't be here as it hates the sports books,MLB couldn't fill the seats but NHL would do okay.
Any given day there are 200,00-300,000 extra tourists here.
Almost orclose to 1/2 of the population of Winnipeg.
I can explain more tomorrow but off to bed now!
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Average attendance for the Wranglers is 4350, not 7000.
The MGM Grand seats just over 17000, and I believe that is for boxing, not hockey.
I don't think that Winnipeg is a viable NHL market, but neither do I believe that Vegas is one...i keep flashing back to the CFL experiment in Vegas.