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by Paul on 09/23/08 at 05:08 AM ET
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from Randy Covitz of the Kansas City Star,
As debuts go, the Sprint Center sparkled for its first National Hockey League game.
The ice shimmered beneath the skates of the St. Louis Blues and Los Angeles Kings during Monday night’s preseason game. The giant HD television screens below the scoreboards glistened. Blues organist Jeremy A. Bowyer hit the resonant keys familiar to St. Louis fans….
All that was missing was a killer crowd.
An announced crowd of 11,603 watched a Kings split squad defeat St. Louis 2-1 in the $276 million arena, which was curtained off in the upper deck in the south end of the 17,297-seat facility.
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Yeah, sorry Phil, nice arena, but KC is not an NHL town. Oh well, you’ve always got Las Vegas for a new addition to your personal NHL…
Posted by PRC. on 09/23/08 at 09:36 AM ET
Yeah, sorry Phil, nice arena, but KC is not an NHL town. Oh well, you’ve always got Las Vegas for a new addition to your personal NHL…
LOL!!!
We love our ECHL Las Vegas Wranglers but even with a winning team (we’ve won 50 games in each of our last three years - a first for an ECHL team), we still couldn’t sell out 7,778 seats on game night, which averages 3,500 and on a weekend. That’s just breaking even.
Posted by SYF from a "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" on 09/23/08 at 01:01 PM ET
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11,000+ for a preseason game on Monday night is pretty good but let’s get real. We don’t need more NHL teams although if the Islanders or Panthers wanted to move there that’s fine with me.
Posted by kevin from conlin on 09/23/08 at 08:02 AM ET