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50% to winning as many division titles as Toronto
The relocation cities included in NHL17 were announced by EA Sports. Here's the tweet:
Do you notice anything?
Sure, the market sizes are a little off, we are a large market while similarly sized Kansas City is medium and larger Seattle is medium.
However, look at fan interest. There's one city with "casual" fans. Cincinnati is devoted? Houston is devoted, Kansas City is devoted. Portland is "hardcore?" Las Vegas is casual.
We far exceeded the season ticket drive expectations, we've got Top 10 US market TV ratings regularly, we have a higher percentage of fans that avidly follow hockey than every US market except Grand Rapids Michigan and Portland Maine. After all that, we've been deemed "casual?"
Am I the only one that this bothers?
Casual? Seriously?
Do you notice anything?
Sure, the market sizes are a little off, we are a large market while similarly sized Kansas City is medium and larger Seattle is medium.
However, look at fan interest. There's one city with "casual" fans. Cincinnati is devoted? Houston is devoted, Kansas City is devoted. Portland is "hardcore?" Las Vegas is casual.
We far exceeded the season ticket drive expectations, we've got Top 10 US market TV ratings regularly, we have a higher percentage of fans that avidly follow hockey than every US market except Grand Rapids Michigan and Portland Maine. After all that, we've been deemed "casual?"
Am I the only one that this bothers?
Casual? Seriously?