Attendance is a lagging indicator. And the product hasn't been good for the last year and a bit. If they continue to paly more entertaining hockey, it will rebound.
As for the price, yes it has skyrocketed, and yes, they have priced themselves out of reach of average families. However, and apologies that this sounds callous, there are plenty of people and businesses that can and will pay, so these trends are not going to reverse themselves. And I doubt they will affect attendance - they haven't so far, aggregately. So either Calgary is different (I strongly doubt that), or the reasons for Calgary's decline lie elsewhere.
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