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Originally Posted by Cowperson
Dallas has been a great model of how to do things. They spent 20 years building communitty rinks, advancing minor hockey programs and generally ingratiating a hockey culture into a place where it really didn't exist before. And now the first high quality NHL draft picks are starting to come out of places like Texas and California. If the culture exists, you can survive the inevitable poor years and prosper when times are good.
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Dallas is struggling to sell tickets now, and tickets are cheap. Hockey is always going to be low on the totem-pole in many US cities. Will cult followings be enough?
28th in attendance:
http://espn.go.com/nhl/attendance
Dallas only has 13, 000 households watching regional TV games (Flames do 300,000+ viewers, and the Canucks do up to 600,000 viewers):
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/J.../NHL-RSNs.aspx