Now that I have been properly smacked around for my lack of careful reading and my unfounded grammer lesson, and have taken the time to remove my foot from my mouth, I'll take a stab at the Canes question.
On another page here, someone had listed the average ticket price and the FCI (sp?), the family cost index. The Canes were the cheapest on the board. If they can manage to hold that position, and begin scraping off the bottom to get some revenue sharing cash, they will be in great shape. There are other factors about the Raleigh area that benefit the Canes. No other professional sports teams (a large amount of people in Raleigh follow the Braves, we have a radio station that covers all the games), nieve interest, higher than average expendable cash in the local's pockets (Research Triangle Park, big companies IBM, SAS, etc.) Hockey is still new in this area. If the Canes can be a playoff team for a few years, people will gain even more interest and the team will continue to grow.
We will just have to wait and see, though.