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Aj_habfan on 28 May 2012
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chocoloco said:
Marks said:
theRepublic said:
Marks said:
theRepublic said:
Marks said:
Looks like my team is out. I'm bummed, but when all's said and done they made the West finals. Amazing year, pretty much everyone had Chicago taking them out round 1. Career year for Smith and Vrbata, great years for guys like Yandle, Doan, Hanzal, Boedker, etc.

Now we just have to wait and see if they're still in Phoenix next year, or if they're the Vegas/Kansas City/Quebec Coyotes. I would NOT cheer for them if they go to Quebec.

I live in the Kansas City area now.  As much as I love hockey, Kansas City would be a bad idea.  I don't think there is any way this city could support another professional team.


Yeah I agree with you there. I don't really understand why the league tries this hard to make hockey popular in southern USA when the market just isn't there. 

Huh?  Kansas City is not in the south.


Well it's like central, and I meant south as in not North, where the US hockey market is...Mass, NY, Minnesota, Illinois, etc. Anything below this really isn't a hockey market. 

St. Louis, Colorado, Aneheim, San Jose, Dallas, say hello. But the thing is geography and history matter a lot.. Kansas city is just not a traditional hockey market. Dallas, Denver, and St. Louis all support many sports so I think you are generalizing too much. Phoenix is in the fucken Desert. Colorado is in the mountains with and the Denver Pioneers and Colorado College tigers say hello as well.

Dallas is not even close to a hockey market, Anaheim is close when they are winning a Stanley cup, St. Louis has a decent fanbase that is coming back as their team gets out of the basemant, but I wouldn't call it a hockey market. Colorodo stopped selling out games once their team wasn't being a contender every year... I won't flat out say they aren't a hockey market, but they aren't on the same level. 

I guess it depends on your definition really. I would say the only true hockey markets are the Canadian teams (Ottawa barely makes the cut), and Minnesota. These are hockey markets because they sell out games when their team is still playing like garbage. 

Places like Boston, New York, Los Angeles, etc. are massive cities that have a large sports fan population, so when the local hockey team is winning and becoming a somewhat hot item they will go to a game. Whether any of these franchises could survive a non-contending team year after year, I don't know... just look at Florida. I bet if they had been a top team these past 10 years people would be listing them as examples of how hockey can work in non tradional markets.