Dunno if this has been mentioned yet, but in listening to one of the US based CBS sports shows this week, a lot of people called in saying that Vegasian's are craving a pro franchise. They're about 600,000 now with a metro area of almost 2 million. It's not a huge market but there are smaller markets in the US that have either a NBA or NFL franchise. Even if it's hockey, I think the city would love finally having a pro franchise there. And there would be no competiton for the team. They wouldn't have to worry about splitting tickets with another franchise.
So I'm not entirely sure it would just have to be hotels and tourists buying the tickets.
I will admit, hockey will be the toughest sell and that could be the thing that sinks it. But I think that it would succeed. The city needs a pro franchise and I think they'd be excited to give their love to the first one to come to town, even if ice is involved.
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