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Originally Posted by valo403
Are 10,000+ people going to travel to Las Vegas specifically to see a mid week hockey game against Tampa? I'm going to say no. So who goes to that game? Your local season ticket base? I believe your argument is you don't need one so there's probably only 5,000 of them. Is there a convention in town? Yeah? Are 10,000 of them interested in going? Oh what's that, they have convention related events that evening? Let's say a couple thousand of them skip those and go to the game anyways, so we're at 7,000. Maybe a couple thousand in casino comps or the like to get you to 11-12,000.
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My argument isn't that people are going to come to Vegas to go to a game, its that they'll go to a game while they're in Vegas. Vegas attracts 36 million visitors per year, so close to a million a week in the busy season winter, which coincides with the NHL season. Lets say 750k per week.
Figure 2 games a week during the NHL season in a 19000 seat arena. I think your 5000 season ticket holders is a reasonable guess, so you need to sell an extra 14,000 per game, or 38,000 tickets per week. Figure 3% of Vegas visitors take in a game, that's 22,500 tickets per week. That leaves 15,500 tickets per week to sell to locals/casino comps, which seems reasonable to me.
I get that some might disagree that this is a reasonable set of assumptions, but the idea isn't ridiculous. I don't have the resources to buy an NHL team and move it to Vegas, so ultimately its an academic exercise unless someone tries it.