What makes a successful sports franchise? Is it on the players to produce results? Is it a mesmerizing game day experience? Or is it maybe a grounded fan base who pour their hearts (and wallets) out in the name of their team to show support? Unsurprisingly, it’s a mixture of all of these.
In the 2012-2013 season, the Hurricanes averaged 17,560 in attendance per game. However over the course of the next two seasons, the base began to see no light at the end of the tunnel and attendance plummeted down to 12,204 per contest, good for lowest in the entire league and the lowest in franchise history.