Too easy.
A FEW examples:
Sharks were in Boston. Fans bought a luxury box. I saw a few dozen Worcester Sharks jerseys and saw at least 75 people I knew from Worcester Sharks games. Making the trip to Boston which most people hate. And at least half of them would never go to a Providence Bruins game. My Facebook and Twitter blows up as well about the Barracuda and Sharks. And these people are still FB or Twitter friends/followers with the former Worcester players.
They purchase AHL Live and watch games (or find other ways). People still chat with the old Worcester (now SJ) play-by-play guy DAILY.
The other day there were quite a few tweets and posts from Worcester Sharks fans on the anniversary of the late Tom Cavanagh's untimely passing.
I'm done. Because you think you are never wrong - bordering on sociopathic. But stick to what you know - we could use the silence.
Oh and by the looks of attendance in SJ, there's still more AHL Sharks fans in Worcester than AHL Barracuda fans in SJ
Its funny you say that I act like I'm never wrong when I could claim that for you and a few others here as well. 75 people? Cool that's not much of a fanbase. That's the group I was talking about. The delusional few who thinks the parent club/fans care about them when in reality they don't. I didn't say there werent people who wouldn't but its a small number to the point of unimportant.
So you're saying the 75 folks he saw were the entirely of the fan base here that still pays attention to the San Jose Sharks? That there wasn't a single person who was a Worcester Sharks fans that still follows the San Jose Sharks that didn't go into Boston on a Tuesday night to see San Jose and Boston play?
Fans follow the progress of players they watched and cheered for in the minors no matter where they end up. At the very least, you're concerned the NHL team stays healthy and plays well and keeps it's hands off your club. I suppose cynical people view things different.
Obviously either way it can't exactly be proven but I would say it would probably be the vast majority. I can't imagine there are just hundreds of San Jose Sharks fans in Worcester, Mass. I guess I could see it in Manchester because bandwagoning is coo to do in Amerikkal and the Kings won multiple titles in recent times. More than the Bruins have won the last like 40 years.