Las Vegas is the only significant untapped local sports market in the country. It’s two million locals, plus 750K visitors per week. The first pro team in town will do really, really well.

12k more than go to Hurricanes games

... have you ever even been to vegas? You get show tickets and free dinners galore. the casinos know if they give you shit you’ll probably come back to their casino after you do some non-gambling stuff, whereas with downtime youre likely to go to another property.

It would be sold pretty exclusively as a “thing to do” for visitors in Vegas, essentially. Sell out the luxury boxes to all the casinos and then a new crowd of midwestern dudes having their bachelor parties every weekend!

NHL’s really missing those 12k fans per home game.