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>>309338 Being a Wingsfag, and having huge amounts of family all over Michigan, I can tell you easily why this has happened: 1. Recession. Michigan (along with Ohio, Indiana, etc) hit hardest by economy collapse. 2. Huge sales for Tigers after off-season trades, before team sucked again. 3. Pistons being among most popular teams in NBA. 4. Red Wings tickets being too expensive all year long, and all playoffs long. 5. The Wings failing too many times in the playoffs from 1999-2001 and 2003-2006, before reaching the CF in 07 and winning it all in 08.
Now with 2 and 3, I read in SI that the Pistons and Tigers were selling record numbers of tickets, so it is highly possible that the Red Wings great success in the 90s and early 00s in ticket sales may have been due to all other Michigan teams sucking, and their low sales being because of the other teams winning again.
However, with the Tigers sucking like they did for that 19 year period, the Pistons being torn apart, and the Lions still being the worst team in sports history, expect the Wings to return to pre-lockout sales levels, due to less people seeing the other 3 teams.
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