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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
Lethbridge, Saskatoon, or Regina could definitely support an AHL franchise I think. I realize that all those places have dub teams but still they're all reasonably close and the fan support would be there if some people feel an attachment to the big league team. Pretty sure there's no more than 3 Flames fans in upstate NY.
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Can't see the cities getting rid of the WHL and if they don't can't see anyway the AHL team survives or even outdraws the WHL in any of those cities.
In Lethbridge even if you dump the junior team I can't see the AHL working at all. Probably at best a 50/50 Flames/Other team population with a lot of students who aren't likely to be consistent attendees and a lot of old people who seem happy to support the kids in juniors but not sure if they tranafer that to low level pros.