Damian Cristodero, from the St. Pete Times had an interesting piece today about the inflated attendance numbers of the Tampa Bay Lightning. Those commonly distributed attendance figures that the NHL releases only reflect the announced attendance and not the actual tickets sold, and even these announced attendance figures are often sketchy when teams announce 14,000 people in the building when there's actually 8,000.
Through the first months of this season the Lightning are selling 14,119 tickets per game but are averaging 16,698 people. Meaning close to 2,600 tickets per game are simply given away to help fill up the building.
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