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Originally Posted by CroFlames
I think the potential for more fans in LV exists than for QC. QC has a 750k metro area, whereas LV has a 2million metro area population, plus the obvious unique nature of visiting fans basically 24/7.
You obviously aren't going to have 2 million fans, but the potential exists that you might end up with more fans in LV and QC.
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No, and it would never be close. There was a study that calculated the number of avid hockey fans in various markets (I will look for it). The number of avid fans in markets like Dallas, SJ, FLA etc remains relatively low despite being around for a long time. Can't come close to a Canadian market.
If you look at regional TV ratings, the comparison is even more telling.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/h...nt-make-sense/
According to our estimates, Quebec City, the former home of the Nordiques, has about 530,000 NHL fans. So, a good comparison for Quebec City would be Winnipeg — another Canadian market that lost an NHL franchise in the 1990s, only to see the league return in recent years. Winnipeg has roughly 560,000 NHL fans, and despite the area’s relatively minuscule population, the franchise has turned a profit in each of the past two years (per Forbes’s data).
We estimated that Seattle contains about 240,000 NHL fans — fewer than that of Phoenix and Florida’s Tampa Bay, home to two franchises that have struggled to turn a profit for many years. And if Seattle is an enigmatic choice by this metric, Las Vegas would be a disaster. According to our estimates, there are only 91,000 hockey fans in the Vegas media market, which is nearly 40 percent fewer than even Nashville, Tennessee, the least-avid current NHL city, has.