FanHouse’s Kevin Schultz takes a look at the NHL’s first-month attendance numbers, and it’s bad news for the NHL, at least in the short term:
NHL Attendance Down After October
↵↵Only nine teams had an average attendance higher than their average attendance last season. On the flip side, 18 teams are down, including five which are down more than 10 percent from their 2008-09 averages.
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One obvious example is the Chicago Blackhawks, which averaged 22,000-plus per game last year; in October, the Hawks averaged 20,309. Not good. That said, it’s just a month, and it’s early in the season, and, if I may utilize an unscientific gut perception here, the NHL certainly seems to be making some headway in awareness department. Or that could just be my imagination. Thus far, the numbers say otherwise.
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