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Originally Posted by valo403
Some people do, like all of the people on here who hit up Flames road games as part of a beach trip or a trip to NY or Boston etc.
Having broad national reach is important for any sports league. It allows them to sell themselves as a truly national league, not a regional league with the associated small time stigma. The NHL gets very little bump from entering an already saturated market, those people are already caught, hooked and cleaned. Entering non-traditional markets is costly and a long process, but it has the potential to produce much greater returns. People who advocate for remaining only in traditional markets have not paid attention to the growth models of so many companies that are now global superpowers.
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I wasn't talking about visiting fans, I was talking about the fans at home. Of course I would love to travel to Phoenix and watch a bunch of games, but I'm not going to watch the Coyotes at the Saddledome because Phoenix is a nice, warm city.
It's been ~20 years since southern expansion. You would think these markets would have caught onto hockey by now.