Someday, if we get an NFL team, we can also be a world leader in concussions! Fingers crossed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIn the NHL, teams play 82 games a season, 41 of those at home. The average ticket price for an NHL game is $62.18. Not only do we not personally care for hockey, we also don’t care for math, but that seems like an expensive hobby. The 14,000 people who put down deposits for season tickets paid a mere $150, by the way.<\/p>\n
It goes without saying that, of course, we want this enterprise to succeed! A pro hockey team could mean a whole new crop of people visiting Las Vegas who have never been here before.<\/p>\n
Another benefit of having professional athletes in Sin City on a regular basis is our Las Vegas strip clubs will be more popular than ever.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the biggest perk of the NHL deciding to bestow a team upon Las Vegas is it opens the door for other sports we don’t particularly care about, too. The gloves are off, as it were.<\/p>\n
More professional sports in Las Vegas means more visitors. More visitors means more revenue for Las Vegas businesses, including hotel-casinos. More revenue means new amenities we can all enjoy. Now, that’s a hat trick we can get behind.<\/p>\n
Differing opinions welcome! That’s why the sports gods invented comments sections on blogs. Probably.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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