Why so few in Colorado last night?

Adrian Dater of the Denver Post raised a great question, why were so few in attendance in Colorado last night to watch the first place  Avalance take on the 4th place Phoenix Coyotes? Can the Avs not draw without Sakic?

What gives? Seriously, what’s up? I want to know what the reasons are why more of you wouldn’t show up tonight to see a team that had the most points in the Western Conference coming into tonight’s game with Phoenix (and added on to them when it was over)?

If the reason why attendance was down last year was the perfectly justifiable reason that the team was awful, what is the excuse for tonight?

There was not a single person in sections 330 and 334 a few minutes into the game tonight. Not one. I think a couple souls showed up a while later and sat there, but that was…it.

You definitely did not dissuade critics who say Denver is just a bandwagon hockey town tonight, folks. The announced attendance was definitely not the actual number in the building either. I’d say the real number was about 8,500, maybe a bit less actually.

This is a team that has busted their @$$es so far, that has two exciting 18-year-old kids on the roster who are playing well and a goalie who has been an absolute beast. This was a team that came home after another long road trip, with a 10-3-2 record, and it was….almost crickets. The players definitely noticed it, and there was some disappointment in the voices of a couple that I talked to after the game. I mean, not like everybody was expecting a sellout, but thousands of empty seats? Yes, there was some disappointment at that.

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