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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
People also bring up the size of the arena in Utica as an issue (4000 seat approximately) but in the AHL the lease can mean as much as the tickets sold. The Wild are moving the Aeros from Houston to Des Moines and are going to be saving $14,000 per game on their lease. In Houston their lowest ticket price was $14, if they keep that the same in the new arena they could sell 1000 less of their cheapest tickets per game and make the same amount of money (of course it's not quite this simple with lower bowl tickets and luxury boxes, but you get the point).
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Another advantage for Des Moines this time around is that they're owned by the parent team. That should help a lot with marketing and stability. They have an amazing rink, also. $10,000 per game is an unreal rate for an arena of that calibre. What killed Omaha was having to play in that crappy old rink.