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Originally Posted by dissentowner
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.
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Not given a shot as in the fanbase was never given a location that worked.
And you took Fla's biggest year in 10 years (other than that they cracked 15K just once) and compared it to a fake Glendale number. Fake because Glendale's
lowest average year before 2020 was 1200. The actual average attendance in AZ was more like 14-15K.
https://www.hockeydb.com/nhl-attenda...h.php?tmi=5763
Since then, yes, the year before they moved wqas 11K and of course they averaged whatever the sellouts are in Mullett this season.