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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
I think most of CP members are getting to the age where it feels this way.
Also young people these days are looking for shorter, quicker entertainment fixes. They're glued to their phones and looking at different things every 5-10 seconds.
As a generalization, I bet a 20 year old Flames fan now has a very different capacity to go watch a hockey game than we did at 20.
Asking them to commit 4-5 hours to anything is awful to them.
Cost problems on top of that & I can't see the new generation of young adults picking up the tickets to live sports we used to. This will only get worse.
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If this were true, then it would be true of any sporting event, and that just isn't the case. There is nothing unique about young people in Calgary, except that the product here is far too expensive for the entertainment value it provides.
Some of that you could probably attribute to the aging building, but it's also derivative of the quality of the team itself. I'm sure people would spend money they don't have to attend games if the team was a consistent playoff contender, or at least played a fun brand of hockey with a good future to look forward to. It's the extended stretches of boring hockey, mushy middle finishes, and playoff fizzles that don't draw crowds. Even the die-hard fans would rather be at home.