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Originally Posted by mikephoen
How about Chicago, Pittsburg and Colorado. Chicago has worse winters than Calgary, not to mention it's dirty and dangerous. Pittsburgh isn't exactly high on any great cities of the world list. Denver is about as close an anagram to Calgary as you can get. On a high prairie plane close to the mountains and far from the coasts. Similiar population as well.
Those three teams have 7 of the 18 cups won in the salary cap era.
As to your other point about not wanting to watch a bottom feeder, the Flames have two playoff series wins in the salary cap era. Two! You're already committed to watching one of the bottom feeder teams in the league when it comes to playoff success.
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Look at Pittsburgh attendance before Mario and before Sid. Look at Chicago attendance for 10 years before Kane. Look at attendance of Colorado after their cups in the 90's until 2010. The only thing that kept those teams in existence, unlike Winnipeg and Quebec, was the fact that the owners were rich.
How have Buffalo, Edmonton, Ottawa, Columbus et al done with all those high picks. Weren't Buffalo and Ottawa two picks to make the playoffs, how about NJ?