people make too big a deal about attendance in general.
there are a couple of problematic situations sure (Carolina might be sold and moved, Arizona is working on a new building or moving, ditto for the NYI), but other than that it's ok. the other somewhat struggling teams are mostly smaller markets with bad/boring teams in weird suburban stadiums. Colorado is low now because they're historically awful, when they were good they sold out like 600 games in a row or whatever. but if 22/30 teams are at 93+% it's not even really worth talking about.
guessing Vegas will be another 93+% team.
the bigger problem is that they don't have eleventy billion dollar tv deals like the NFL/NBA/MLB to render this basically meaningless.
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Originally Posted by Fossilkid93
I don't follow NHL too closely. Is the problem more that the management for these teams is completely inept or that players just don't want to play in cities where noone really plays/cares about hockey?
as players seem to like playing in warm weather cities with less media/fan scrutiny (and sometimes no state income tax!), i guess it must be a poor management thing where problems exist.