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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Now do Florida. TB has done very well, but it was not always thus.
I'd like to know how you determine a "hockey market", that's all. IMO Phoenix/Tempe just hasn't been given the right shot. Glendale was a bad choice and like others have said, ownership is the issue.
Now, if they can't support a team after all this time, fine. But it's not a reason to celebrate any more than when Winnipeg or Quebec lost their teams.
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Not given the right shot? The team has been failing since 1996, how many decades of trying and failing to draw a fan base is appropriate before we can decide if an area is a hockey market or not? Seems like 27 years should be a significant amount of time to tell the Coyotes are not going to work in Arizona. Do Florida? Florida has an NHL arena. Florida has never defaulted on rent. Florida's average attendance in the past 10 years has been between 14-16 thousand people. Last year Florida averaged over 16,000. Arizona averaged 4000. Before that in Glendale they averaged 11-12 thousand.