NHL teams struggling for fans and the Leafs roll along

So the NHL attendance is sinking like a stone in the weaker markets like Florida, Islanders, Blue Jackets, Panthers, and even now the Avalanche is joining the ranks of the not drawing flies. For the players this means that they will have to put aside even more of their hard earned money to help the weaker sisters of the league because they have been putting money aside to help balance the books and it has not been enough. But look on the bright side the revenue will go up next season as the Leafs have decided to raise their ticket prices by 2.5% for next season as everything is rosy down on Bay street as the owners will get richer and richer but for the fans they get stepped on and spat at once again. This is because the Leafs still are 8.5 mil under the cap and still struggling to stay in the playoff picture with miss mash of talent and the factors of the ownership, tam performance, and the local media are scaring away the better players like Nash, Stamkos, and even Travers have no interest in coming to the big smoke as they would rather stay in a big American market or a sunny vacation spots where the media is much less interested in them than in Toronto. The Leafs being able to raise prices without positive results will be a great example that they will never ever allow another team to locate to the city because competition would lose them a large part of their fan base which would put a dent in their profits. This means that the hopes and dreams of Markham getting an expansion team is never ever going to happen even though I would love it because it would hurt the leafs and not hurt the Sabres. Hurting the Sabres would be a bad thing because if a team goes to lets say Hamilton it would help the renues for one team and the Sabres would become one of those weaker sisters. The NHL still spin their wheels in the wrong spots Tom Mehegan