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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Why would it mean less? Hockey is in the entertainment business. And it is expensive entertainment. That is just as true in the south.
Kids can save up and go to a few concerts of their choice. But ST are expensive. And the only way a franchise can be viable is to have a large ST base (minimum 13,000 or so). That means a large contingent of corporate sales (difficult anywhere in the valley), plus a large and loyal group of fans that will return annually.
University students are entirely outside of that demographic.
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Means less from what I see because the tickets are cheaper and the fan bases seem more .. lunch pail I guess.
I'm not the big students are the best customer proponent, I was just pointing out that an argument that says students tend to leave doesn't mean a lot, because new ones just show up in their place. I guess no further discussion of the superior Scottsdale location means that it's not obviously superior? My main point is that Scottsdale, from what I can see, doesn't have many good sites to drop an NHL rink, asu makes more sense to me.