20,000 !!! Wow! That is as big as some NHL arenas. Ours only holds 8500. It has only sold out for hockey two or three times in the entire 10-year period the team has been here. We used to have respectable crowds for quite a few years, and then attendance gradually fell off every year. I guess people got over their fascination with the sport and went back to doing other things. This is also primarily a golfing town (the Masters tournament), so that doesn't help either.
Now, on a good night, you may get 2500-3000 people in the stands. There was talk about building a new arena in town, but it got voted down every time it came up in the elections. There is hardly any other type of entertainment (concerts, shows, etc.) that wants to come to such a small building, so I don't know if we will ever get a bigger one or not.
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