Just because we have a new building isn't going to make new fans come out of thin air and magically arive at the games. Will we be doing better this year in attendance numbers than last year? Yes. But a new building doesn't make new fans immediately! I think the fan base is growing, honestly. But this isn't going to be a change overnight. As mentioned before, most people over the age of 40 in northern new jersey are Rangers fans and people in Central/Southern jersey are Phlyer fans.
Last I checked, the Rangers have been around since 1926 and the Flyers since 1967.
At this point, my thought is to just drop the whole attendance thing because quite frankly there's nothing we can do about it but bitch and moan. And that isn't going to fix anything!
Personally, I don't think there's anything to fix. Let it go, take two breaths, count to 10, and lets get excited about the fact that Olli Malamar (or whatever his name is) is going to smear Gomez at center ice