The audience number of 3,000 spectators has not yet been broken in the home matches of the early season.
The audience numbers of the ice hockey league team Pelicans have remained rather low in the early season.
The audience average for the three home matches is a little over 2,600 spectators. Measured by average, Mikkelin Jukurit and Vaasan Sport have started even slower in the league.
Quick solutions are not sought.
– We are deep in Päijät-Hämee and we want to be a Päijätämä team, even though we play in Lahti. There are areas where we would like to see more audience in the hall.
According to Pöyhönen, autumn is also a challenging time in terms of filling the stands, as many spectators are still spending, for example, the cabin season and may think of watching hockey as a winter sport.