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I think both BU and BC have had trouble in recent seasons by wearendhockey
I don't thing either ever fills half their seats on a given night (no matter what the phony #s in the boxscores say), and they ain't alone.
I know people say the 60" Ultra High Def 4K 3D TVs are keeping people home, but I think there is more to it than that. TV was supposed to have ruined the live experience by around 1955. Then color TV and replay were supposed to have done it in by 1970. Then cable TV in the mid 1980s when more than half of all households finally subscribed.
I don't know for sure what it is, but I suspect the social media machines that are in almost everyone's hands 24/7 might have something to do with it.