Originally Posted by CDSmith

Tampa seems to have a surprisingly decent hockey crowd at every one of their home games. Some people I know in areas like there and in the SF Bay area have told me that "No one watches hockey here, no one talks about it or knows about it at all"... Which kind of baffles me because then who are all these thousands of fans showing up at all the home games? I'm pretty sure they don't fly in 15-18 thousand Canadians every game so their arenas look full! .