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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I wouldn't be surprised if the media up there gets preferential treatment and favours if they overhype Oilers talent to keep a haze around the team that keeps the average fan from seeing the reality of the situation. There is no way that building should be more than half full if the fans actually realized what was going on with the organization as the only way to elicit change and get Lowe & Friends sent packing is with their wallets choosing not to pay for tickets. However filling the building every game for the worst product in the NHL pretty well gives Katz a free pass to ham it up with his childhood heroes.
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The building is always full because it's NHL hockey, and there's a lot of money in Edmonton and not much else to spend it on. Product doesn't have much to do with (nor does it in Calgary).
Darryl Sutter's final years here weren't quite as bad as Lowe's recent run in Edmonton, but every hockey watcher outside Calgary knew the Flames were a slow-motion trainwreck. And yet a lot of fans still had blinkers on and wouldn't listen to a word about a rebuild, or trading Iginla. The hardcore Oilers fans share that us-against-the-world, a-rebound-is-just-around-the-corner attitude. Edmonton just has more than its share of those blindly faithful fans than most cities.