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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Almost two million Canadians per year visit Vegas, with Torontonians, Calgarians and Edmontonians leading the way.
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And how many of those are strictly during hockey season? What tiny fraction of those 2 million are going to go to a hockey game vs gambling/drinking/golfing/any thing else Vegas related?
Quoting the number of visitors to the city is a pointless argument IMO since there's no data on how many of that number would spend their dollars on hockey.
And using the Canadian market argument they're banking on being profitable based on what, 20% of the home games in the season?
I trot out likely way too many Dragon's Den references, but it's no different when the better mousetrap startup company comes out and says "The mousetrap industry is worth 8 billion dollars annually. If we can capture 1% of that we'll be an 80 million dollar company" Sure. But what makes you think you'll capture anywhere close to that 1%?
By similar logic, the NHL sold 21.6 million tickets last year so that means a team in Maple Creek Saskatchewan shouldn't have any problem selling out.
This is going to be Phoenix 2.0. Won't that be a fun division rivalry to watch. 6 local fans, 1 away fan, and 3000 people in Edmonton/Roughriders jerseys.