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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
Damn, I had it pegged at 4% myself, so I guess it's nice that we have 5, but the point still stands. People get tunnel vision on the Flames but that chart really shows that there's only two franchises that matter in this country.
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The only thing that chart really shows is where the majority of the population is in Canada. Those percentages are almost exact to the population ratios of the provinces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Canada
Winnipeg has just over 3% of the population and surprise, they have 3% of Canada cheering for them. Alberta has 11.5% of the population and the two Alberta teams combined are.......11%
Every province is within a couple of % of its population so this really means nothing other than the fact that if we had more of the nations population in Alberta we would have a higher number. There is only one team that should cry when the see that chart and that's Ottawa. When you live in a province with 38% of the population and you can only muster 5% of the country as fans, that harsh. But when your so closely surrounded by original 6 teams then its probably hard to establish a fan base.