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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
FWIW that wasn't really a lame duck season, with move not announced until April (although speculated by some during the season). And if you look at attendance since 2000, it was consistently between 5,000 and 6,500, with one outlier at 7,300.
Houston is not a hockey town. Now could you find enough fans in a city with metro population over 7 million and some western Canadians working here? You'd think so. You'd also expect more than 3 functioning hockey rinks. You shouldn't need an NHL team for that. How many in Seattle?
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Seattle is not really a hockey town. So I don’t know how many decent arenas they have.
Houston did just fine as both an AHL and WHA city. Consistent to 10 in the AHL and often the only southern one. And their WHA team was strong (they packed it in one year before the league ended but only because they were not going to be a merger team).