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Originally Posted by Hangman
You have keep in mind that the 8,000 figure is an inflated number. I believe that all Flames season ticket holders in the luxury seats are given tickets for the Hitmen. And even if they don't show up for any games those tickets are counted as bums in seats for attendance purposes.
A likely explanation for the overall loss
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The attendance might be inflated, as attendance figures often are, but no way do I believe the Hitmen legitimately are in the red. Probably off topic for this thread as I don’t think it has a material impact on anything to do with the arena.
But many many hockey and basketball leagues would be happy with about 8,000 fans a game and that is for teams that have to pay their players and don’t share a back office.
And are you certain that is how they count attendance for the luxury boxes?