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Originally Posted by Pacem
How much money are they making tho? Attendance per game isn't the greatest measure of how well a team is doing. It is all about $$$
You know Edmonton is bringing in more money per game then Tampa, Florida, Nashville, and Carolina. Boston is definitely doing that as well. Buffalo, prolly. They got a ton of pre season hype and i'm sure a lot of fans were buying into it. Colorado, maybe? They have a pretty good short history with the team, so I think they would be.
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No doubt. That wasn't the thrust of my argument though. I was just rebutting the faulty assumption that "nobody attends games in the south, hyuk hyuk".
Valo notes below that there is much more to revenue than just ticket sales, but it is also very true that ticket sales drives the league. From the standpoint of finances, all we have, really, is Forbes' estimates.
Here is last year's revenue estimates, from lowest to highest.
Disregarding Atlanta/Winnipeg since that data is clearly stale, it is interesting to note that Forbes estimated the St. Louis Blues as the third worst generator of revenue. The Canes, Preds and Panthers near the bottom as well, as one would expect, but right there with Colorado, Tampa, Buffalo and Dallas. Now, this was last year's numbers. Several teams have seen huge changes in attendance from last year to this: Columbus +1541 (+12%), Dallas -1774 (-12%), Florida +1657 (+11%), Isles +2601 (+26%), Tampa Bay +1670 (+10%), Winnipeg* +6936 (+86%). Even Phoenix is up 750 per game. In those cases, their revenue will be rising as well.