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Originally Posted by dammage79
Corporate seat will always be sold but I do question about what they'd pay to keep those seats. I suspect in a scorched earth rebuild those seats would be discounted heavily just to keep them filled.
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What are they really afraid of? Have they not seen attendance and trend the last 2 seasons
https://www.hockeydb.com/nhl-attenda...h.php?tmi=5090
The Flames attendance the last two seasons were 17950 in 2022 and 17500 last season
That was the lowest since 03/04 - 20 Years
The worst attendance in history was 1999 and 15300
- The city of Calgary had a population of 925,000 vs 1.65 million today
So even if we dropped to our worse attendance ever we are talking ~2000 seats unsold a game (I would assume with a population up 80% they would have some demand increase but price increase over that time may kill/lower increased population demand)
42 home games X 2000 tickets is 8400 less tickets sold
The Flames average cost to attende a game was $127 Canadian
https://globalnews.ca/news/9179433/n...8%20per%20game.
So that's about 10.5 million in revenue impact if the Flames dropped to the lowest attendance in franchise history
(Not including any impact offset/already will occur as they are already seeing lowered demand - Attendance dropped 500/game from 22-23. )
Would anyone care if they spent 11$ million under the cap and went full rebuild?
What they should do is lower prices 20%, spend 20 million under the cap to cover the difference in revenue and do a full rebuild. Build up a new fanbase watching exciting rookies while the team stinks and drafts top 3 for 3 year, then start spending and raising ticket prices in the new arena with a team people want and are excited to watch (IE - CREATE SOME DEMAND)