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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
Vegas is a horrible idea for the NHL.
Since it is a small city where almost all the permanent residents work evenings, they will have no loyal fanbase. Sure tickets will sell as casinos buy them to give away and visiting fans invade the arena but they won't have their own fanbase. Which means small TV revenue and small merchandise revenues.
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I think that is like saying the entire population of Calgary works in an Oil companies head office. Or everyone in Edmonton works 2 weeks on 2 weeks off at the rigs.
Its only like 20% of the population that works in Hotels, and Casinos now.
And I'm sure that's pretty evenly split between Days and Nights. So your talking about 200,000 out of 2 million people.
We all knew this was coming, I'm not going to pre-judge that its a bad move. I don't even think Phoenix was originally that bad of a move. Moving the rink Glendale was a big mistake that amplified problems that might have been survivable.