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Yeah ingress and egress at Shouldice or Broadview wouldn't be great.
When the Storm played those two years in the late 90s, it was at Foothills. Ingress and egress were fine, but one bleacher so 2000 was max capacity. The next year they raised the prices by double, which was the wrong choice and the team was done, to come back as the Mustangs the next year who played in McMahon in their year of existence.

I tend to agree with Sherm. $10-$20 tickets, cheaper parking, and get quantity of eyes on the game. Like the PWHL they've seem to have more national corporate sponsorship and backing than even the CPL, so losses, while expected for a few years, seems to be easier to absorb if they draw good crowds.

Sure maybe some of the environment can't be created as at Spruce (Spruce obviously would be a lot more racous if you didn't have one sideline wide open) but then the capacity would be almost doubled. So it's not so much about in match experience and home field advantage as it should be about getting people just to come out week over week.

Who knows, maybe they can and will put up temp bleachers in behind the nets and even along the sidelines so there isn't that big gap.