Brooklyn has about 1730 fewer seats for hockey than Nassau does.
Multiply 1730 times a conservative 75 dollar AVERAGE ticket price times 41 games a year and you get about 5.3 million a year less if the place is sold out on ticket sales. If those 1730 people bought 40 bucks worth of food/beer/soda/team store stuff thats about 2.8 million. (Before you jump a couple goes to the game and each has 2 beers and hot dog and pretzel: thats way more than 40 bucks never mind buying a jersey or tee shirt in the team store.)
Thats a VERY conservative 8.1 million lost to a smaller seating capacity.
If your team gets as good as you say it will they should be selling out. Players salaries will grow. They will need all the revenue they can get.
Thats the smallest seating capacity of any NHL rink and it's 1,730 seats smaller than the current smallest seating capacity in the NHL: the Nassau Coliseum.
- Downeaster
Luxury suites are where real money is generated in arenas, not from the upper bowl seats. The Barclays has tons of them, more than enough for NHL reqiurements. The isles dont have the smallest capacity, Winnipeg does. The Jets arena only has about 500 more upper bowl seats than the barclays will. The jets are doing just fine revenue wise.
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