Daily News | Floundering Flyers on the verge of making the wrong kind of history in terms of attendance
, but the arena with a hockey capacity of 19,306 was only about half full. There is a perfectly valid explanation: The Flyers’ season has been a dud.With the team in last place and riddled by injuries, fans have simply tuned out.
The game sounds as if it is being played at a banquet hall, over the mumbling of pleasant conversations instead of the roar of a rabid crowd. Voices carry the other way, like when a fan jeered veteran defenseman Keith Yandle from Section 220, then added: “I know you hear me!” But home attendance is down by 10% compared with the 2019-20 regular season, which was trimmed to 69 games because of COVID, and by 17% compared with the 2013-14 season, in which the Flyers had 41 sellouts and averaged 19,839.
During a news conference in late January, Flyers president Dave Scott acknowledged that the team’s poor performance was affecting home attendance, but he also said that stringent Covid protocols at the arena had made an impact. That may be true, in the Flyers’ case.in average home attendance, playing to 101.5% of capacity. The Flyers are playing to 84% capacity, 19th in the NHL. Fans just don’t want to spend good money on a bad team.
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