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Originally Posted by moon
The AHL may be better hockey in terms of an AHL being able to beat a WHL but it is second tier hockey where are the WHL is the best of the 16-20 age group.
As well the WHL league has a history in the city and people are familiar with it and already have an attachment to it.
I know personally as a former season ticket holder and likely future season ticket holder if the ownership is changed I would have no interest in going to the AHL and certainly wouldn't get season tickets Flames affiliate or not.
I think many in Lethbridge would be the same. A lot of the crowd is seniors and they seem to like to support the "kids" based on conversations I have had with some that I know/sit by. Possibly these people still go to AHL but they are often WHL fans more than even NHL fans.
Lethbridge is also far from a Flames town so the draw of the Flames affiliate being here wouldn't have a big impact.
WHL makes way more sense here than the AHL unless Flames are willing to subsidize a team with ~2,000 fans a night. I would say the same thing for Saskatoon can't see the AHL working better than the WHL there.
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That used to blow me away how anti-Flames that craphole of a town is. I lived there for seven years and I think I met maybe 5 other Flames fans. Everyone else bleed Oiler grease. I never understood that, but it is what it is.