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Originally Posted by dino7c
it doesn't help they light up the empty seats so they stand out
fair weather fans
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Lol, at fair weather fans. NHL fans are so misinformed sometimes on southern teams. Their arena holds 17500ish fans, it opened in 1993.
The Sharks were abysmal for a lot of their history, yet their average attendance since 1993? Amazing.
93 - 16537
94 - 17190
95 - 17190
96 - 17420
97 - 17111
98 - 16903
99 - 17290
00 - 17468
01 - 17422
02 - 17350
03 - 15835 (ironically when they went to the finals)
05 - 16831
06 - 17422
07 - 17411
skip...bunch of 17+
2018 - 17266
2019 - 16428
2021 - 12574 (pandemic capacity restrictions)
2022 - 13640 (pandemic capacity restrictions)
Sorry for the long form, attendance laden post, but I get triggered by canadian fans flippantly writing off southern US fans as fair weather when they're often not at all.
The Sharks fan base is knowledgable, loud and there in numbers throughout their history, even through the first decade when they were a laughing stock. You know what happened when the Flames were a laughing stock in a hockey mad country? You couldn't give away tickets, and the building was less than half full in terms of butts in seats a lot of nights. So if they're fair weather do you agree that Flames fans after fair weather, as well, Dino?
San Jose has hit a perfect storm of Covid fallout, inflation and uncertainty and a team that has made it clear that they went all in with major, boat achor contracts and can't complete for a few years at least.