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Where Is Everyone?
by Paul on 11/05/09 at 08:03 AM ET
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from Adrian Dater of All Things Avs,
What gives? Seriously, what’s up? I want to know what the reasons are why more of you wouldn’t show up tonight to see a team that had the most points in the Western Conference coming into tonight’s game with Phoenix (and added on to them when it was over)?
If the reason why attendance was down last year was the perfectly justifiable reason that the team was awful, what is the excuse for tonight?
There was not a single person in sections 330 and 334 a few minutes into the game tonight. Not one. I think a couple souls showed up a while later and sat there, but that was…it.
You definitely did not dissuade critics who say Denver is just a bandwagon hockey town tonight, folks. The announced attendance was definitely not the actual number in the building either. I’d say the real number was about 8,500, maybe a bit less actually.
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Come on rwhater...rally the troops, man.
Posted by Animal Drew from A Nightmare on Helm Street on 11/05/09 at 08:50 AM ET
The problem is, they still have Darren Garcia in jail.
Everyone misses him at the ‘Dique games.
Posted by w2j2 on 11/05/09 at 08:53 AM ET
The bandwagon left town with the Wings/Avs rivalry. Wooooooo. (TM Pen(i)sblog)
Posted by WingsFanInBeanLand from Earth. on 11/05/09 at 09:51 AM ET
Anyone waiting for history to repeat itself...?
It wouldn’t be the first time an NHL team was run out of Colorado.
Posted by HockeyTownTodd from upset when blogs don’t live up to my expectations on 11/05/09 at 11:07 AM ET
its time to end this Denver hockey experiment.
funny how winning fills the building and losing empties it. strange. naaaa, it’s probably the market.
Posted by Predneck from Hicktown on 11/05/09 at 01:49 PM ET
denver is a football state (and baseball somewhat as well, although the rockies havent done much since larry walker left)
the problem has to do with the fact that NHL games are not on ESPN, but on Versus which you have to order separately.
This means that games are less often seen by the public, meaning that general public interest decreases. Its hard enough to keep track of one sport, let alone 2, but to try and get an audience for a tertiary sport in denver, while not publicizing it properly can only lead to disaster.
THANK YOU GARY BETTMAN, YOU BIG *#$%@&.
EAT SHIT
Posted by damji on 11/05/09 at 04:51 PM ET
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Maybe all the Denver fans read Dater’s last piece of crap about how the players don’t care if they win or lose as long as they have a contract and decided it wasn’t worth their time or money.
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 11/05/09 at 08:39 AM ET