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Originally Posted by jayswin
What? 16-17k is not a sellout most places.
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It's not a good crowd for sure. But 10 out of 32 teams would be within 1000 seats of selling out based on that game's attendance. We've got the 6th biggest arena, with ~3k seats in the press level.
For the larger arenas (19k+) lowest attendance percentage game so far this year compared to Flames (87.0%):
Buffalo: Less (66.0%)
Tampa: More (100%)
Florida: Less (83.9%)
Ottawa: Less (73.8%)
Detroit: Less (86.6%)
Philly: Less (79.7%)
Chicago: More (98.2%) (they've had two home games so far this season)
Montreal: More (100%)
It's hard to sell most of the seats in big arenas when you aren't an actual proven cup contender, a Bedard haver, or the French.