Avalanche fans at the Pepsi Center. (John Leyba, The Denver Post)
Lucky for the Avalanche, its attendance figures for this season didn’t match the sharp drop in its record.
Colorado, which finished 39-31 and will miss the playoffs after going 52-22 last season, had an average of 16,177 fans attend home games at the Pepsi Center, down only slightly from 16,292 in 2013-14, a 0.7 percent drop, .
The Avs had the third-lowest total attendance among Western Conference teams (663,247) in 2014-15, with the stands at Pepsi Center at only 89.8 percent capacity.
The Blackhawks had the largest total home attendance in the West (892,532), while the Stars posted the biggest leap from last year, at 12.5 percent.
Western Conference attendance jumped 1.4 percent from 2013-14, while Eastern Conference attendance fell 1.5 percent, .
League-wide attendance remained flat this year, at an average of 17,444 per game. An average of 17,472 fans attended home games last season.
Below are the figures for Western Conference teams in 2014-15. .
TeamGamesTotalAvg.% Cap.Prev.% Chg.Blackhawks41892,53221,769110.4%21,5690.9%Flames41782,97719,09799.0%19,289-1.0%Wild41779,94419,023106.0%18,5062.8%Canucks41767,14918,71199.2%18,910-1.1%Blues41760,34918,54596.8%17,4986.0%Kings41748,89318,266100.2%18,1400.7%Sharks41714,36917,42499.2%17,562-0.8%Stars41711,35917,35093.6%15,42112.5%Ducks41691,83516,87498.3%16,4692.5%Predators41691,02816,85498.5%16,6001.5%Oilers41690,39916,839100.0%16,8390.0%Avalanche41663,24716,17789.8%16,296-0.7%Jets41616,55615,038100.2%15,0040.2%Coyotes41547,14913,34577.9%13,776-3.1%West Totals57410,057,78617,52297.9%17,2771.4%NHL Totals1,23021,456,45017,44495.9%17,472-0.2%
