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Originally Posted by cam_wmh
Winnipeg, & Quebec City are not Calgary in terms of profitability. Less seats, with considerably less corporate support.
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Devil's advocate but IIRC QC's arena has a higher seating capacity than the Saddledome. Also the trend has lately been to intentionally undersize arenas to help inflate demand for seats. The era of 22k-seat arenas is over.
If Calgary does build a new arena I'd expect capacity to largely remain the same as it is with the Saddledome. What'll be different is more corporate boxes and a larger proportion of seats in the lower bowl relative to the upper bowl/nosebleeds.