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>>139991 >currently Hartford doesn't have an arena with more than 17,000 seats (the Hartford Civic Center only seats around 14,000). Edmonton's Rexall Place has fewer than 17000 seats. Ultimately TV ratings and pay-per-view contribute more to a franchise's revenue than raw home game attendance anyway. Having a huge city population is all well and good, but its the number of people who actually give half a fuck about hockey that's what matters. Sure Atlanta is a huge city, does that make it a 'successful' market?
>Attendance during the Whalers days was low And it isn't for the Islanders, Coyotes, Thrashers, Devils...? Besides, places like the Bay Area, Colorado, Ohio, Minnesota, (lol) Atlanta, etc etc etc all had franchises that were lost due to attendance problems and the like, somehow bringing franchises back into those areas wasn't a complete impossibility.
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