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Originally Posted by New Era
Most economically powerful city in Canada? Please explain. All measures seem to put it scales of magnitude behind Toronto and Montreal, and then on par with Vancouver and Edmonton. What makes Calgary the economic power in Canada?
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He may have meant 4th largest and 4th most economically powerful.
To your earlier posts about Calgary being too weak a market for the NHL, then I suppose we must be going back to the original 6-12.
The league is pretty simple in economic terms:
NYR, TOR
MTL
PHI, BOS, CHI*, LAK*, DET, VAN
Everyone else in a similar ballpark, except:
ARI, FLA
*potentially fickle with bad teams, both had pretty low attendance before their latest runs.
We know things were bad in CGY during the young guns era, yet we still drew 15k+ every year.
The following teams are often considered quite strong markets, but all have had more recent and darker (sustained lower attendance) days than us:
COL, LAK, CHI, DAL, NJD, PIT, WAS, STL
Even BOS was similar to us in late 90's early 00's; VAN not much better.
CGY is not a top 10 market. But it's not bottom 10, either.