Over the long haul, Montreal and Toronto will be fine.
Calgary's fans are fickle. The Flames are still selling out but the wait list for season tickets moved dramatically last year and the team counts on corporate tickets - the longer the team stays on the outside looking in, the harder it will be for companies to justify the expense.
I don't know much about Vancouver or Ottawa but I would imagine the former is akin to the Flames.
I think the Oilers and Jets are and should be the most concerned with a prolonged period of crappy hockey combined with a weaker dollar. Even at $0.85, 15% on top of the cap hit is brutal. Regardless of opinion to whether Winnipeg should have gotten a team again, the pure economics of a smaller population, smaller corporate pool and smaller arena is going to catch up to the franchise if this drags on.
Winning teams can whether the storm. Unfortunately, the two teams that are winning are ones that could survive no matter what.
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