The devils had a crowd of only 1500 at the game?

Question

I was wondering, what is the record for the smallest crowd at a NHL game?

Sorry I meant to say Boston

Answer 1

Back in the early part of the decade the Canes were playing a home game and I can't remember the opponent. Anyhow, a snow storm hit Raleigh and if you have ever been in the south during a snow storm, people stock up on milk and bread for a forcast of 3 inches. Needless to say that it seemed about only 250 people showed.

Answer 2

The least amount of fans at a regulation NHL game was 334 in New Jersey on 1/22/87, due to a blizzard. The Devils played the Calgary Flames and won 7-5.

Answer 3

Sorry to pick apart your research - but I hope you do a better job in school of research Voluntaryunconscious - you said the following -
In Chicago, where there is something of a revival happening on the ice, the Blackhawks last week drew just 8,008 fans to watch Nashville, their lowest crowd ever since moving to the United Center in 1995. The previous low was 9,333 a year ago, also with Nashville in attendance."
There is only one big problem - Chicago has not hosted Nashville yet this year. They played three games last week, and all attendance figures were over 13,000, including a packed house on 12/7 against the Ducks.


"# Atlanta, off to a great start, saw its crowds go from 17,000 down to 12,000 and, as of last week, were down overall by 12 per cent, while Chicago and LA were down 11 per cent and Florida down 10 per cent, year to year."
Chicago's home attendance is up approx 3,000 per weekday game on average, and Friday night games have averaged more than 5,000 more paid than last year. Your numbers are lies. Why would you lie?

Answer 4

I was at the Flyers game last night and their attendance was not what it normally is either. They were probably at 3/4 attendance which is unusual for them. The weather in the entire north east was bad yesterday.

About 15 years ago, I made a trip to Long Island for a game when a bad storm hit. We were stuck on the NJ Turnpike listening to the game and they announced that they were opening the doors for free to anyone who could manage to get to the building. Stuff like this happens from time to time.

Andrew: I was playing in Roanoake in '93. A storm hit the east coast and we got 3 feet of snow. The roof started to cave on the arena during our game and they evacuated the building. At 2 AM, the roof gave in completely, resulting in our only appearance on SportsCenter all season. We played the remainder of our games on the road that year.

Answer 5

I saw a game in Hartford once where the announced attendance was 2,694.

In fact, discounting Calgary and Ottawa, Hartford has the 10 lowest 'announced attendances' since 1967

Note #1: Calgary and Ottawa are discounted due to starting their franchises in arenas with small capacities

Note #2: Announced attendance is the number of tickets sold and is no reflection on the number of people who actually show up. In 1977, the Buffalo Sabres played a game in front of 743 people (according to Irv Weinstein)....with an announced sellout. Mind you, it was the blizzard of '77

Answer 6

I did some research for you....there has only ever been a few teams to have their smallest crowd/audience recorded...

In Chicago, where there is something of a revival happening on the ice, the Blackhawks last week drew just 8,008 fans to watch Nashville, their lowest crowd ever since moving to the United Center in 1995. The previous low was 9,333 a year ago, also with Nashville in attendance.

# In Long Island on Monday, those madcap Islanders drew a paltry 9,431 to watch, ah, Nashville.
# In Los Angeles, the Kings last week drew 14,167 (no, Nashville wasn't in town), their smallest crowd for a regular-season game since February, 2001. A few nights later, they only managed a few hundred more souls.
# Atlanta, off to a great start, saw its crowds go from 17,000 down to 12,000 and, as of last week, were down overall by 12 per cent, while Chicago and LA were down 11 per cent and Florida down 10 per cent, year to year.
# Most alarming was that in Colorado on Monday, the Avalanche's sellout streak of 487 consecutive games came to a halt. True, they were missing just 326 ticket buyers, but many had predicted a losing team would end the 11-year streak. And so it did.

This is other sites i found while searching for this.. it also gives you a few numbers to the lowest attendance records.
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/2005/10/29/1284125-sun.html
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/GRIMSON+HITS+FIRST+DOUBLE%3B+DUCKS+WIN+BEFORE+SMALLEST+CROWD+EVER+:...-a083843410

Answer 7

It had to be when the Carolina Hurricanes played in the Greensboro coliseum. Attendance was so bad that parts of the upper decks were closed off with a big black curtain. But they moved to Raleigh and are doing OK now

Answer 8

Well I am sure that back in the day there was less at some point.
1500 WOW. I am surprised they did not postpone the game if the weather was that bad. I expect it is the same nor'easter headed my way.

Answer 9

Behold....the awesome entertainment power of the 'Trap' system....

I went to a devils game once and a three period nap broke out. Dont worry, they had midget hockey between periods so there was at least some entertainment...

Answer 10

Umm please keep in mind this was a Bruins home game, and there's really crappy weather in Boston right now.