Around the League - PLAYOFFS!?

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TB is hanging around right? For all the talk of how crappy they are doing, they’re picking up enough points sans Vasi to be around once he’s back. I wouldn’t write the obituary yet.
 
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5. Shame that the Winnipeg Jets — firmly in a playoff spot and dressing one of the NHL's goal-scoring leaders, Kyle Connor — are struggling at the gate.

The Jets are averaging 11,874 fans per home game and the Canada Life Centre is 79.1 per cent full.


Only the horrid San Jose Sharks (73.8 per cent) are having a more difficult time packing them in.

League sources point to 2011, when Winnipeg took over the Atlanta Thrashers, as an explanation for the current attendance issue in a depressed economy.

The bring-back-the-Jets movement sold 1,870 season ticket packages to Manitoba Moose loyalists, then another 8,000 to the public within two hours of going on sale.

What was a feel-good story at the time — regular working folk putting down hard-earned money to see live NHL hockey — has had a negative effect over time.

Too great of a portion of the ticket buyers were individuals, not corporations. Individuals fall on hard times or grow old or eventually wish to spend their entertainment dollars elsewhere.

Companies are more likely to renew their tickets.

Not enough corporate investment, the league believes, is the root of the Jets' attendance woes now.
 
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