Las Vegas Hockey: Education is Key for Fan Base of NHL’s 31st Franchise
If Las Vegas Hockey is going to be more than dust in the wind in one of the biggest entertainment cities in the world, they better start with hockey 101.
It’s not enough to have sold out your season tickets. In order for Las Vegas Hockey not to be the Arizona Coyotes or Carolina Hurricanes 2.0 there needs to be an educated fan base and a stable organization.
The team announced Monday that it had reached the cap on deposits for the maximum 16,000 season tickets for their first season. Fans that didn’t get their deposits in before this will be able to put money down for a spot on the waiting list. – CBSSports.com
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The future of the “Desert, Golden or Silver Knights” rides on not only the hockey fans who will vacation in Las Vegas or the hotels that will buy up tickets, but it rides on the everyday person who up until next year will have had very little NHL exposure.
If you teach them they will keep coming… Hockey in the South has not been a golden ticket for the NHL. While everything looks good right now Las Vegas Hockey must either fix that issue or show once and for all NHL hockey needs to get out of the sunny South.
Hockey knowledge is not an easy thing to learn. The game is fast and sometimes to the untrained eye hockey can be flat-out confusing. Once an appreciation and understanding of this beautiful game are learned it’s the best sport on earth.
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Simply relying on traveler and transplants to keep ticket sales up is foolish. Las Vegas Hockey needs to find a way to grow a true and educated fan base . NHL hockey is not like seeing the Blue Man Group, it’s about more than having a few drinks and watching a show.
Las Vegas Hockey needs to be about building a franchise fan included.
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