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Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn
No, but the cold weather, bathroom lineups, losing, crappy food, and having to stand in line on top of that could take its toll.
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Lol. I don't think the Flames will need to worry. Crowds will drop during the rebuild, probably for a combination of the reasons you mentioned, but the crowd they will draw is still very healthy, and is paying full pop for tickets, so its fine.
That's difference between hockey markets and non hockey markets. Hockey markets sell out the building during the regular season when the team is good, and people pay full price for tickets. When the team sucks, they still manage 75% attendance and better, and people still pay full price for tickets.
In a non hockey market, the building sells out in the playoffs, with 30% of the tickets being sold for $10 with a jersey, pop an hot dog. When the team is no good, they only sell 30% of the tickets, all of them going for $10 with jersey's and food included.
Also, I was at the game last night, went through a metal detector, it didn't add any time in line. The only difference is it allowed the sucurity staff that was already there indication on who to search versus doing it randomly or into bags only.