Images of brutally low attendance for 2 NHL teams on Saturday night.

A pair of teams in the National Hockey League that have failed to deliver a compelling product on the ice may be in some trouble when it comes to their ability to draw fans to their games.

On Saturday night, images began circulating on social media regarding the abysmal attendance at a pair of NHL games. The first of those games was a clash between the newly minted Utah Hockey Club who traveled to Pittsburgh to take on the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena.

To say that there were some empty seats at PPG Paints Arena would be a massive understatement with a significant portion of the seats in the building appearing to be empty, so much so that even Penguins reporter Dan Kingerski appeared to be stunned at the lack of fans in attendance. Kingerski snapped a pair of photos to show just how empty the building was once the game had gotten underway, with a caption that made it clear he was stunned at the turnout.

"Puck drop crowd," wrote Kingerski "Wow."

The Penguins are currently dead last in the NHL's Metropolitan Division and are having a fairly terrible season, so you can hardly blame fans for not being overly excited to head out to the game on a Saturday night. The Penguins however are not the only team in the Metropolitan Division struggling to draw fans to the game.

In a very similar tweet to the one from Kingerski, Islanders reporter Ethan Sears shared a photograph of his own when it came to the attendance at UBS Arena for Saturday night's game between the New York Islanders and the St. Louis Blues. Things did not look good for the Islanders either, who have been a middling team for several seasons now and appear to be destined to remain on that trajectory once again this season.

It seems clear that both the Islanders and Penguins fan bases are sending a message to their respective team through the power of their wallets, and it will be very interesting to see if that very clear message results in any major changes to either one, or perhaps both, of these teams.