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It’s really apples to oranges in many ways.

First, it’s about the ingame experience at Lacrosse. It’s loud music all the time and more or less attempting a party vibe and thus heavily into the fan experience, with lacrosse sprinkled in.

Second, lacrosse season is what, three months?
Cheaper tickets, owned by CSEC. Games league wide are Friday Saturday or Sunday. Players salaries are for those 3 or 4 months and most ownership owns its own buildings. So overhead is relatively low on the operations side. Road trips play two or three games at a time l, but again, short seasons.

Yes there are hardcore fans but it’s basically a cheap weekend night out for many, and it’s groups of people going, where the result and watching the game is secondary. Lots of people dont sit in seats the whole game from my recollection, instead get up and wander around, something hockey or soccer games don’t lend itself too.

Spruce of course could handle more as a venue, they pack a lot more in there for show jumping.
Sure a downtown 10k stadium would be nice but who will pay for that and what else would it be used for that will turn a profit? It took a whole lot of time and effort and politics replace a 43 year old stadium that the City paid 25% for back in 1983.


As mentioned, the CPL will have a few critical years coming up here. Capitalizing on the WC for popularity and hopefully getting some funding out of the WC legacy (though my guess is the CSA and CSB already have that spent) has been basically counted on for years within the various CPL and team budgets. If that increase in popularity and revenue doesn’t come to roost, and it’s pretty clear that this is the niche market that thy will be operating in city wise and league wise (and no realistic situation of better stadiums, here or anywhere) would change the interest, so things could get grim.