My experience in Phoenix is that the "city" of Phoeniz (and I use the term loosely) is vacant after the work day, and the only reason anyone is in "downtown" phoenix after dark is if there's a ball game. Would hockey really work there if the audience lives in scottsdale or Tempe? The Valley sucks to get around in since there's next to no transit and it's all highways, and you can't even have a drink at a game then drive home due to their zero tolerance DUI policy.Yeah I think it would work better for downtown even if the audience is in Scottsdale, Tempe, or Mesa (which is where most people in the Phoenix area live) because at least you can catch light rail from Tempe and Mesa to the game. I used to take light rail from where I lived next to the ASU campus in Tempe nearly every day for D Backs games and it was always a smooth and easy way to get downtown, and you don't have to worry about getting a DUI because you can take the Orbit shuttle from the ASU transportation center to any point in Tempe. And downtown isn't as abandoned as (I assume) it once was. There's actually a decent nightlife brewing down there now with the downtown campus. And at least downtown is close to the heart of the metro population. Glendale is still such an outlier that there is absolutely ZERO reason to go out there unless you want to suffer through a Cardinals game or are a homesick Canadian.Have you ever heard the story about Phoenix Trotting Park, the creepy old horse racing track? http://www.sbnation.com/2013/7/11/4514706/phoenix-trotting-park-goodyear-arizona-ghost-racetrack Yeah well, Glendale is actually closer to that than it is to downtown. If that doesn't give people a sense for just how out of the way Glendale is, I don't know what would. They probably still wouldn't lead the league in attendance if they were downtown, obviously. But they wouldn't be hemorrhaging the states cash while playing out in Afghanistan. Here's the question, were those seats sat on more than the ones at Jobing.com Arena?