MACON - Macon has replaced the Whoopee, which folded after the last hockey season due to lagging attendance. <br>
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The City Council approved a lease Tuesday night for the new team, which will be called the Trax. <br>
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``Now we can really go out and sell the season tickets and sell the fans,'' team owner Dave Adams said. <br>
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The Trax will be in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League - a smaller league than the East Coast Hockey League that included the Whoopee, a fixture in Macon for six seasons. <br>
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Adams said the team will need an average of 1,200 fans per game in the Macon Coliseum to turn a profit. <br>
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Macon Whoopee officials said they needed to sell more than 3,000 tickets per game to survive. Last year, the team sold an average of 2,700 tickets a game, but due to no-shows, attendance averaged 1,600.
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