[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Agreed. I think Flames fans are hardcore enough that we could easily fill the Winsport arena at COP. Shoot, I bet CP members alone could fill half this place up:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=193996

I would have to counter-bet you and say that less than a quarter of the people CP are casual fans of the Heat and even fewer regularly follow the Heat.

But having the team in Calgary would almost force an interest on the population, which would probably get people going to the games.

Here, most people don't even know what AHL means. Like Ryan Walter said, people actually say, "When do the Heat play the Vancouver Giants?". And as soon as they hear it's Calgary Flames affiliated, that's it - they're not supporting anything like that.