by henrymalredo from lansing on 07/26/12 at 03:41 PM ET Anyone bashing the lackluster fan support must be blind and ignorant. I would suggest there may, in fact, be a third option... 27th 29th 29th 19th 22nd 24th 29th 28th 30th 29th 30th. ... and that option may be called 'aware of reality'. Just above is the Coyotes attendance rankings since 2000-2001, oldest to most recent.  I think a fairly reasonable description of it would be 'atrocious'.  It also predates both the current ownership mess, the economic crash, and roughly 90% of first run TV shows. Can you expound on this?  I have always been curious as to why, after almost landing the Oilers in the late 90s, Houston was never seen as a possible NHL market again. Posted by pippichongos from deep in the heart of texas on 07/26/12 at 05:28 PM ET ... and that option may be called 'aware of reality'. It's not so clear cut as that. From 2000-2002, the team played in a crap arena and were historically bad. Their attendance numbers declined nearly every year they were in the valley, pretty much along with their win-loss record. They moved to Jobing.com for the 2003 season and their attendance jumped up quite a bit from 29th to 19th in the league. But they still sucked. And then the lockout happened. Hardcore fans will come back, as we all did, but they lost any traction they gained from the new arena. And they continued to suck,