South Florida is a strangely shaped metropolis. Endless sprawl North-South to take advantage of available land and the oceanfront, very thin East-West because of the Everglades. Then the rough traffic makes attending games even more difficult. Has little to do with the fanbase, a lot to do with geographic circumstances and questionable urban planning.
FL really should have parlayed Marchessault and Smith into usable defensive/goaltending assets.
Yeah, tri county (PBC, Broward, Miami Dade) has poorly planned public transport. Piss poor.
Ice a winning team for 2 or 3 years straight, I say the stadium sells out regularly right where it is. There are like 3 highways that converge on the stadium. I-75, I-595, Sawgrass Expressway.
I-75 connects west miami dade via 3 highways (826, gratigny, turnpike extension), 595 connects fort lauderdale and north miami via I-95 and the sawgrass connects palm beach via the turnpike and i-95. southbound traffic is not bad on sawgrass evening time. i drive it every day. 595 west can be rough in the evening if you don't need the express lanes, but they do exit right onto the sawgrass. both just completed major upgrade including express lanes and optimizing old-style off ramps. i've heard 75's traffic has improved in both directions since construction completed.