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Digger12 said:Attendance? Really?
From ESPN.com's NHL attendance figures:
00/01: 20,346,372
01/02: 20,613,591
02/03: 20,390,908
03/04: 19,012,074
Consider that the 03/04 # was artificially inflated by an extra 35-40 thousand due to the one shot deal of the Heritage Classic in Edmonton, and that number becomes even worse...over 1.4 million fewer fans than in previous years.
Never been higher? Hardly.
Why would you exclude the Heritage Classic? Did fans not attend those games?
Do ESPN's numbers reflect preseason or postseason games?
Besides, those are the number the owners report themselves with no accountability. I can state with absolute certainty that there is at least one franchise that does not accurately report its attendance figures.