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Originally Posted by renny
It's things like this that kind of shock me, that in the past the attendance was so low. I'm glad that Burke is adamant that this is an essential part of the Calgary Flames culture.
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I didn't want to unfairly disparage the guys in the past, so I went and looked for photos from previous events.
Here's the video from 2008 (this is the year Phaneuf got the hat trick):
This is from 2010:
Here is 2011:
So, looking at these, it was usually about 2/3 of the players. A little better than my estimate of one half, but still nothing like this year's nearly 100% (and the only one who wasn't there is injured).