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Originally Posted by kunkstyle
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.
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I know the numbers I mentioned are not nearly accurate enough to point to success/failure points. However, it paints a picture of the type of fans that attend. Assuming you can get relatively cheap tickets to a game (which will no doubtedly be the case when it competes with other nightly entertainment venues), why would it be a fallacy to assume a group of Calgarians wouldn't buy tickets to a game? Especially if the Flames are playing? It would be interesting to do a poll of outbound Calgary travellers to Vegas and see if they would spend $20-30 on a ticket to watch the Flames play down there.
Also, Vegas is a tourist package destination, easily booked on sites like Expedia and Travelocity. You have to consider ticket deals that might be part of vacation packages to entice tourists to go.
I'm also curious to know how much Vegas would get from the Sportsnet/NBC deals with the central-revenue sharing plan. Somewhere in the $7-10 million range? How much would that add to projected revenue?