Another reason hockey should leave the South

I agree, My parents are in Atlanta visting relatives and my mother could not find anything on the sports talking about the Hossa trade!!  She called me to find out about the details.

Atlanta in general does not have great support for their sports teams. I went down for a Steelers game there and it seemed like it was about half Steelers fans and alot of empty seats! The Braves also have had mediocre support even though they have had some great seasons. I think hockey is a distant third in a town that does not have great support to start with.

It is interesting to hear this topic actually being debated again.  I remember when all of the teams from up north moving down south, fans were confused, and hockey traditionalists might still be confused with the matter.

However, the bottom line is that professional hockey is a business, not a very lucrative business, but the francises that exist are in the best places for them to be reasonably sucessful.  Hockey is just not a big sport in the states, and where ever a team can make money they will be there, whether they have die hard fans or not.