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Originally Posted by moon
Can't see Lethbridge working at all.
They struggle to draw for the WHL team that has a long history in the city and is more appealing to follow.
Plus, Lethbridge is not a strong Flames town so the draw of it being a Flames farm team isn't really going to have much of an impact at the box office.
I don't know enough about Red Deer or Saskatoon but I can't see the AHL being successful in going to a town with a WHL team already in it and can't see why a town/ownership group would want to get rid of the WHL for the AHL.
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The only hitch I could see with Red Deer would be that Sutter owns the team and I don't know if he would be all for sharing/moving the team for anything associated with the Flames.
I do think they would do okay drawing a crowd. Currently, the Rebels have 81% capacity at games (
http://www.hockeyattendance.com/team...r-rebels/2013/). They do get a good crowd as Red Deer is a good sized city and you have easy access via Highway 2 and 11 from a number of other small towns maybe 30 minutes away.