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Originally Posted by Toonage
Tuesday night game against an uninteresting opponent in an arena that's out of the way.
Not making excuses for past attendance issues, but this one sort of explains itself no?
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Sure but 13.4k is extremely low for a Canadian team that was a win away from going to the Stanley Cup finals last season. I feel confident if the Flames got that far last season there would have been a lot of excitement opening up the season. What's happening in Ottawa is the exact opposite as people are staying away. This has to be quite concerning for the league when cities like Vancouver and Ottawa have attendance issues typical of non-traditional US hockey markets. Hard to imagine the salary cap is going to keep moving up when attendance is dropping in markets like this.