You went from 12,420 a game the year of the WCF run to 13,923 in a short year. Then the owners looked like they ponied up some money and the team looked good on paper; this created an increase of 1,355 a game over the last full year. Then this season came, money was suddenly tight, and we got a garbage sized gift of a team. Yet 13,345 a game still showed up. Still almost a 1,000 more a game then the WCF run. Fans are there, but the ownership has to be blame by allowing that out clause to hang over the team. Its a big go jump in a lake to the fans.
As of 11-25-14, Forbes valued this team at $225 million with an operating loss of $4.6 million. The Wild, Blue Jackets, Panthers, Lightning, Blues, Hurricanes all had worse numbers at an average loss of $11.5 million a team. How has this team become so financial worse then other teams with those numbers? Perception issue or is there issues in reality?