As you could tell from yesterday's piece, I decided to have a little fun with the Winnipeg Jets returning to the NHL rumors that always seem to be floating around. Now, for why I picked on the Florida Panthers, in case there's all of their 10 or 15 fans ready to write complaint letters to me (I kid about the numbers). The decade since they've made the playoffs is fact. That one is something that anyone who follows the NHL to a fair degree knows. As for attendance figures, they're 22nd as of this writing. That the team has ranked no higher than 19th since the lockout in attendance figures, which was in fact, the year after the lockout of 2004-05, speaks to the team's inability to field even one playoff run. Not helping matters is that the Panthers have to compete with the Miami nightlife for people. Naturally, this kind of thing runs through all of the Miami pro sports, so it's not necessarily an isolated problem. However, the Panthers don't even have a superstar player to hang their advertising strategy on. In a sense, what I'm trying to say here is that Florida isn't worse than the Coyotes, but trying to fight for attention in a city where there's so much to do made it an opportunity for me to think about pulling off the jokes. And if there are any people in Miami who read yesterday's piece, I'd like to apologize for that, and don't take it too personal.
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