I think the Heat can build a good following where they are. It will just take a long time. Drafting some local guys is a good idea to help build that - guys like Bouma who had a following on the Giants. Either way, if the Heat continue winning, and if they continue playing some pretty fun hockey, eventually more fans will start coming and enjoying hockey.
There are definitely some Heat fans in Abbotsford now, and I don't think they were necessarily Calgary Flames fans to begin with, so they are either attracting new fans to hockey, or some Vancouver Canuck fans are accepting the Heat as a team to follow and cheer for.
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