I mean a lot of actual disaster franchise stories in terms of fan support can be directly correlated with an inability to show them anything to get excited about on the ice for years, sometimes a decade+.
Look at Columbus, a hockey-ish (not sunbelt) market with incredible, jubilant initial support (straight sellouts for a couple years I think), just eroded year after year with nothing happening to the point where 11-13k became the average.
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