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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Maybe it's owing to the failure of the NHL to take hold in many of these big American cities with multiple times the population and GDP. Atlanta. Carolina. Miami. Phoenix. Even Colorado is averaging 4,000 fewer tickets sold per game than the Flames.
Big American city + NHL team =/= a loyal and lucrative fanbase.
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It's almost as if a loyal and lucrative fanbase isn't nearly as important as people blindly insist it is. In any case I think we'll find out just how lucrative Calgary's fanbase really is as this war of attrition being waged from all sides on the O&G industry drags on several more years.