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Originally Posted by pylon
With rumours of a 90 cent dollar on the horizon, they are doomed. With the cap going up, and the dollar going down, they will need to increase prices 20% in a market where they can't even afford the prices now, just to break even. Still 900 billion percent better than that laughable joke of an embarrassment in Phoenix though.
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Debatable. It was common knowledge that for the Winnipeg franchise to have success, they needed to maintain an unsustainable level of total support. The building is too small. The corporate base is too small. There is no room for much expansion. The market is not a destination. It's a perfect storm of troubles that have the Jets tenuously perched on a knives' edge. It was only a matter of time.
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Originally Posted by pylon
The same goes for us as well. Albeit the median income in Calgary is substantially higher, once we see the dollar dropping, get ready to pay more, and see lots of games with 15k fans in attendance unless they pull off a miracle rebuild.
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Except it is NOT the same. The big difference between Calgary and Edmonton and Winnipeg is that the Flames and Oilers have deep ownership pockets, larger venues that support considerably more high-end ticket revenue and a comparatively HUGE corporate base from which to draw that provides a buffer for when times are more challenging. Put it this way: The MTS Centre is smaller than EVERY other NHL venue, as well as the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Le Colisee in QC, and the Credit Union Centre in Saskatoon. A sellout in Winnipeg is less than 90% capacity of the next smallest NHL arena in Edmonton, and only
66% capacity of the Saddledome. Inn other words, if the Flames or the Oilers falter a bit, they are still doing just as well or remarkably better than the Jets with a full building.