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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
If you don't believe hockey should be in hot weather locations the NHL is not going to grow past about 25 teams. You can take out Florida, Tampa, Carolina, Arizona, Dallas, Vegas and the California teams.
Question is whether Houston market would support hockey. The Aeros were reasonably well supported in the AHL but that is minor league. Houston is a very different market than Dallas, and no doubt it would cannibalize some "corporate" attendance from Rockets. But Houston is a big city with many corporate head offices.
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Advantage too is you force the suite owners to buy for both the Rockets and the Floods so you have built in revenue for those. Then, if your club seats are desired make it the same deal. All of the sudden you've got all your suites sold at 8,000 built in expensive season tickets.
Not to mention your overhead becomes significantly lower. Maintenance costs are cut in half, you maybe have 1 or 2 dedicated flood/rockets employees (besides basketball folks) and the rest just toggle.