Size matters. Arco seats 17,317. For one of the highest demand tickets that is incredibly small. Comapare it to the Delta Center 19,911 Air Canada 19,800 MCI 20,674 or teh Rose Garden at 21,538. The amamzing thing is given the speed at which the Kings sell out the season, even a 21,000 seat arena would easly sell out virtualy every game if not every game.
So what right? OK here comes the math: thats 3683 more fans in seats every game which in and of it's self is a good thing but from the Maloofs perspective at say an average tick price of $50 it translates into $184,150 per game. Now lets sell them each one order of garlic fries (my game time favorites) at $4.50 and a $2.00 soda(estimaitng here folks) and we have $23,939 in incresed consession sales for a total of $208,089 in lost opertunity per game. So with 42 home games plus 4 pre-season season games and and an average of say 9 post season games to give us the round number of 55 home games a season the Maloofs are looking at an opertunity cost of $11,444,922.00 a season. Where I come from thats real money.