Pierre the Great Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 (edited) http://www.thn.com/en/news/news.asp?idNews=21994 Highlights: Avs didn't sell out a home game for the first time in 11 years. Through 78 games Monday night, the NHL was averaging 16,743 fans per game. Compared to the same point last season (through 82 total games), the league was averaging 17,285 coming off the season-long lockout. My Prediction: The sun is setting on Bettman. Edited October 17, 2006 by Pierre the Great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonus Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 the first month of last season was a soft attendance number. Im more intereted in seeing how november matches up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted October 17, 2006 Author Share Posted October 17, 2006 really? I think its more of the same. I'll really get a good idea on how bad the attendence is this year in Saint Louis when I go to the canuck-blues game on friday. The ticket people said that sales where better then last year and I saw a game on tv and it looked like more people were in the seats but then again they didn't do a shot of the upper deck. Another hint I got was that I was able to get a second row seat just above the club seats and lower bowl right at centre ice a week before the game. So thats not good if I can get that good of seats so close to a game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMMR Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 really? I think its more of the same. I'll really get a good idea on how bad the attendence is this year in Saint Louis when I go to the canuck-blues game on friday. The ticket people said that sales where better then last year and I saw a game on tv and it looked like more people were in the seats but then again they didn't do a shot of the upper deck. Another hint I got was that I was able to get a second row seat just above the club seats and lower bowl right at centre ice a week before the game. So thats not good if I can get that good of seats so close to a game. but who cares about Hockey in St. Louis? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacchus Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 Time for another lock-out to motivate the fans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakiqc Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 but who cares about Hockey in St. Louis? Who care about the Blues !! The Rams are on their bye week. This should be the perfect time for the Blues to get some spotlight. But just too bad for them.. the Cardinals are going to the World Series! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 (edited) And the worst teams attendance wise are .... Rank in the league* - avg. attendance per game - last year avg in brackets) http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/attendance?year=2007 rank in the league* - avg. attendance per game so far - last year avg in brackets 20 Phoenix 15,559 (15,582) 21 Pistburgh 15,542 (15,804) 22 Nashville 15,441 (14,428) 23 NJ 14,900 (14,230) 24 Anaheim 14,461 (15,106) 25 St Louis 14,409 (14,213) 26 Washington 14,308 (13,905) 27 Atlanta 14,298 (15,550) 28 Chicago 12,570 (13,318) 29 Islanders 12,081 (12,609) * out of 29 because the Bruins havent played a home game yet More positively, 13 teams have sold out all their seats so far Montréal Tampa Detroit Philly Toronto Calgary Ottawa Carolina (!!!) Buffalo Vancouver Dallas Minesotta Rangers Edited October 18, 2006 by Jean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonus Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 well i think the reigning cup champion selling out their games isn't that surprising. Yes, Pierre, hockey is on a downswing in St. Louis. The Blues are not the NHL's barometer. That being said, if the Blues can put together an improved season, I would expect attendance to increase. The transitional, 'for-sale' blues bummed a lot of people out, IMHO. The checketts group seems to be icing a higher quality product and should win back some fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebehabs Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 of course the habs doesnt have any problem to sell tickets... this is one of the reason why montreal = hockeytown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted October 18, 2006 Author Share Posted October 18, 2006 well i think the reigning cup champion selling out their games isn't that surprising. Yes, Pierre, hockey is on a downswing in St. Louis. The Blues are not the NHL's barometer. That being said, if the Blues can put together an improved season, I would expect attendance to increase. The transitional, 'for-sale' blues bummed a lot of people out, IMHO. The checketts group seems to be icing a higher quality product and should win back some fans. Yeah the Checketts group wants hockey to be great again in Saint Louis but the problem is bigger then just the team playing good. The post doesn't cover the team anymore. Sports Radio here doesn't talk about them because they think hockey is a joke and the radio station that plays Blues games is part owned by the Cardinals now and they also play Mizzou and Rams games. Plus then there's the Bilikens basketball team. The two main writers for the Post are on record for hating hockey. Burwell has never been in the arena and only does baseball, basketball and football articles and Mikilaz doesn't like hockey, only liked to take sound bites from brett hull but he's not around anymore. Granted the Cards are in the playoffs but the blues were not mentioned until page 6 of a 7 page sports section today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sajc Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Attendence woes in USA Oct 20 Caps vs Thrasher 12,719 Pred vs Devils 11,274 Penguins vs Nyi 10.258 Kings vs Coyotes 12,714 Oct 19 Panthers vs Capitals 10,125 and sadly orginal six teams Habs vs Hawks 11,095 If this keeps up some of these teams could be in real trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 I'll see how bad the attendance is today at the blues-canucks game today when I go to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsniper Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 of course the habs doesnt have any problem to sell tickets... this is one of the reason why montreal = hockeytown No it isn't, Detroit is. It says it right on their rink, duh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 (edited) So far this is the blues attendance Home opener vs. Coyotes - 8,531! vs. Chicago - 11,606! then people started showing up: vs. Boston - 17,213 but that was a saturday night game those are always high in attendance. Edited October 20, 2006 by Pierre the Great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huzer Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Give it November before we start the gloom and doom. I wouldn't use St Louis as a choice of anything, the Cardinals have been playing, and are now in the WS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMMR Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 So far this is the blues attendance Home opener vs. Coyotes - 8,531! vs. Chicago - 11,606! then people started showing up: vs. Boston - 17,213 but that was a saturday night game those are always high in attendance. The Boston game was thier home opener! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 was it? because the website said there home opener was Phoenix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMMR Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 was it? because the website said there home opener was Phoenix http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?service=page&am...season=20062007 The game was Thursday 12th agianst the Bruins check it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 oops. oh well I expect 10,000 people there tonight might bring the camera along as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sajc Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 oops. oh well I expect 10,000 people there tonight might bring the camera along as well according to official score sheet attendance tonight in St.Louis was 9,049. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted October 21, 2006 Author Share Posted October 21, 2006 Thats about right, really said though really said. Diehard season ticket holders around me said that the crowd was worse then last year and last year was BAD. And about 8 thousand of those people showed up with 5 minutes before the game started. Its so bad not all the big special concession stands are open. If only people saw this game they'd be hooked. But yeah there was this section on the ice that was completely empty and this was in the lower bowl. Most of the fans of course are in the upper sections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonus Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 who the hell cares about st. louis attendance? It is NOT a bellweather. I have been to St. Louis many times, living there for a summer and I can say with great surity - ST LOUIS IS NOT A BELLWEATHER FOR ANYTHING! Oh yeah, and as to attendance figures right now, there is something called the WORLD SERIES! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted October 21, 2006 Author Share Posted October 21, 2006 lol okay siminous I'll check the attendance once the Cards are done and I can garuntee people still won't show up. Talked to a bunch of people that used to go to games that don't anymore and they said one reason: The Lockout. Face it, The Lockout is and still is the reason why attendance is down in the US. The sport was already a fringe sport and when it went away for a year nobody blinked. It came back and nobody blinked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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