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Originally Posted by dobbles
one thing that i will note aside from the awful scheduling regarding the canucks is that the ahl always has pretty awful playoff attendance. since many of the markets rely heavily on season tickets and group oriented theme nights, the playoffs make it harder to get folks there. you can't schedule a 'college night' months in advance and promote it to get the extra 500-1000 fans like the regular season. i was always stunned when looking at the playoffs the last 2 years to see how bad the crowds would be. right now the league attendance went from 5100 in the regular season to 3800 for the playoffs. i guess the excitement of making the playoffs doesn't seem to do much for the ahl cities.
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In the Heat market, at least, its inevitable. They cannot possibly hope to compete with the Canucks during the playoffs. Even if the Moose were in town it wouldn't work, people are absolutely Canucks crazy around here come the post season and very few people that I know will miss a game to watch. Its not a problem with the market, its just reality, how many Flames fans would skip watching them in a playoff game to see the farm team?
The schedule people in the AHL really dropped the ball when they set it up for every game to land on the same night as a Canuck playoff game.
Its too bad for us Abbotsford folk because the revenue would have been very good to offset the bills....