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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
You don't need to be a playoff team to have a marketable product for your fanbase. The sizzle of promise and potential, especially for homegrown players, is still a draw.
In fact, fan sentiment has never been higher for a rebuild, and there's very little attachment to the current crop of core players that were mostly acquired via trade or free agency.
Flamesnation polled over 500 fans that expressed distaste for the current direction of the team, with 90% saying they'd support a rebuild.
So no, I don't buy that heading toward a rebuild would crater attendance long-term and we'd suddenly be at risk of moving. Especially with a new arena on the horizon. IMO, that's a lazy ownership narrative that is not grounded in the reality that this is still a hockey-starved Canadian market that, above all else, wants to see a Stanley Cup.
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I would support a rebuild and still watch the games, listen to the podcasts, and post on this forum but I am not spending any money on watching that team go out there and try and lose. That is me though. I waited to get my season tickets until the Gaudreau extension kicked in and I bailed when they lost to the Oilers.
I do think trying to have the best roster possible for a new building makes sense and they are not on that path and likely could have been in a much better spot for that to occur had they decided to tear it down after Gaudreau walked and Tkachuk forced the team to move on