You may have to compare numbers for teams at the same time last season. Some us markets are traditionally slower at the beginning of the season. Professional and college football tend to eat into the dollars that sports fans can spend so attendence starts out slow. The slow teams that you mentioned(Nashville,Florida,Washington and pheonix) are traditionally bad draws, and not really surprising. It will be interesting when the Devils get into their new digs on the 27th. They usually don't draw well, but with a new arena, I'm sure that their attendance numbers will be up this year.
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