An estimated 74,524 total hockey-starved fans will attend one of four games when the NHL's 2014-15 season begins on October 8.
All four opening day hosts—Toronto, Boston, Calgary and Los Angeles—will continue to draw sellout crowds for their 40 other home contests in the coming campaign.
For some of the league's 26 other franchises, however, the nightly crowd size may be a bit more variable.
By the Numbers
NHL attendance declined 0.4 percent in 2013-14 compared to the last full-length season (2011-12), down from 17,433 to 17,368 per game. Fourteen teams averaged at or above reported arena capacity, while just one (Dallas) filled less than 80 percent of capacity, the least since 2008-09.
Computer models, based on quadratic growth calculations on data from the 2009-10 season on (excluding lockout-inflated 2012-13), project league-wide attendance in the upcoming 2014-15 season to rise slightly up to 17,421 per game.
The models' projection for every NHL team lies in the chart below:
But the above projections are based only on his ...
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