With a brand spankin' new 17,500 seat arena set to open this fall, complete with all the latest bells and whistles, Kansas City seems to be the NHL's new darling child.
But haven't we seen the NHL make enough mistakes though ? Atlanta looked like the next great success to the NHL, but their paid attendance this season is only 13,300. Nashville was another Bettman poster child. Current paid attendance ? 13,500. Phoenix ? 13,300. Florida ? 12,500. Get the point ?
It's comical to think that just because a city has an arena, that the NHL will be a success. Hockey has failed in all prior incarnations in Kansas City, and there is nothing to believe it won't again.
The best the Major League Baseball Royals could draw in their heyday was only around the league average in attendance, and they haven't come close to that in the past fifteen years. In fact, in the past three seasons they've been among the worst three teams in the entire major leagues.
There's a very good reason why the Scouts were forced to leave town in the 70's. Why repeat the same mistake 30 years later ?
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