For the posters wondering about the empty seats in the arena….you only have to look as far as the page counts in the GDTs to know that it isn’t just the economy. Even 3 years ago, we used to get at least 60-70 pages of comments during the regular season games and now we’re lucky to get 10. I’m sure Reddit and other sites has taken away some of the longtime users on here, but not to the extent that we’re seeing.
I personally think we’re seeing the results of a somewhat prolonged period of mediocrity.You would see it with some of those Blues teams in the past too.