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polak · 10-12-2016, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by robaur

I wouldn't jump the gun. The demand for Flames tickets is pretty poor compared to years past. I understand it's the economy but expect to see a lot of empty seats at the dome this season even if they're technically "sold" to STH's. The resale market is virtually non-existant.

That'll change if this team reverses last years fortunes. As much as us die hards are excited, your average Calgarian just remembers that we were one of the worst teams in the league last year.

If they can string together a good start, excitement will build. If not, well, people in a crappy economy will find cheaper entertainment options.

Only in sports do you see some sort of implied "responsibility" on the customer to pay to watch a bad product.

lazypucker · 10-12-2016, 02:52 PM

With a crappy team (or even a good team), sometimes it is tough to justify going to a Wednesday night game against the Hurricanes or Panthers in the middle of winter where it is -30 and a blizzard outside... Let alone the arena is in the middle of the nowhere

CalgaryFan1988 · 10-12-2016, 02:57 PM

I'll never understand why they didn't build the arena closer to downtown. Traffic is insane on the way home after a game at Canadian Tire.

BlackRedGold25 · 10-12-2016, 03:01 PM

Simple explanation. There's an idiot tax on Leaf games at the Canadian Tire Center. A ticket that will be $66 tonight will be $18 when Arizona comes to town next week. What Senators fan is going to pay extra to go watch a game against a crappy Leafs team and deal with the Leaf fans who don't know how to behave in public?

The better question is why all the alleged Leaf fans in Ottawa aren't buying the tickets? Are they disappointed that Auston Matthews isn't getting his number retired tonight?

868904 · 10-12-2016, 03:18 PM

The arena location is one thing, but I don't know if you can blame it all on that. The Canucks have a prime downtown arena and apparently, they aren't sold out yet either.

Bandwagon In Flames · 10-12-2016, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by 868904

The arena location is one thing, but I don't know if you can blame it all on that. The Canucks have a prime downtown arena and apparently, they aren't sold out yet either.

Nobody wants to watch that garbage team. They are projected to finish last this season. Ottawa is at least a bubble team.

Vancouver doesn't have a whole lot of diehard fans. High percentage of bandwagoners.

Cecil Terwilliger · 10-12-2016, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by 868904

The arena location is one thing, but I don't know if you can blame it all on that. The Canucks have a prime downtown arena and apparently, they aren't sold out yet either.

There are a number of factors at play IMO.

Bad team, bad management, fickle fans, cost.

I know I wouldn't fork over the kind of coin required to go see a game nowadays if I was a Canucks fan. The cost of attending an NHL game in most Canadian cities is out of this world nowadays. Add a crappy team with no future to the mix and only the most delusional fanbase willed with sweatpant wearing, mullet sporting idiots would continue to fork over huge money to watch a dumpster fire.

FBI · 10-12-2016, 03:45 PM

Well I for one am going to the Canucks game this Saturday and am pretty pumped

RM14 · 10-12-2016, 03:55 PM

Flames game not quite sold out for Friday either.

Young_Guns · 10-12-2016, 04:03 PM

I grabbed tickets to the Canucks and Flames game in Vancouver and it looked comparable to that OTT seat selection screenshot the day I bought my tix. Besides, who wants to watch the Leafs play?

PugnaciousIntern · 10-12-2016, 04:32 PM

Arena location sucks. Their CFL team regularly sells out, in large part because of the location and surrounding restaurants.

FanIn80 · 10-12-2016, 04:33 PM

Stupid Twitter. I clicked on the link in the OP and then lost 15 minutes of my life reading the ensuing argument between Leafs and Sens (and Panthers! (wtf?) fans.

Geeoff · 10-12-2016, 04:38 PM

Imagine if the Saddledome was in Airdrie? That's about the Senators situation...

lazypucker · 10-12-2016, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Geeoff

Imagine if the Saddledome was in Airdrie? That's about the Senators situation...

But Airdrie is only 10 min away from downtown Calgary. People will still go to watch their beloved Flames

CaptainCrunch · 10-12-2016, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by RM14

Flames game not quite sold out for Friday either.

I would expect that with the economy the way it is that sellouts are going to be tough to accomplish.

4X4 · 10-12-2016, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Geeoff

Imagine if the Saddledome was in Airdrie? That's about the Senators situation...

This is why the mere mention of putting the new arena in Ballsack makes me shake my head. As a southwesterner, there's pretty much no chance I'd bother driving that far to go to a game, when my TV is so close, and such high def, and my beer is so cold and relatively cheap, in my no-line-up fridge.

Such a stupid mistake they made in Ottawa.

spuzzum · 10-13-2016, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by JerryUnderscore

Thanks, Obama.

http://www.obamaphone.com

I'd go to Sens games if they handed out these.

Aarongavey · 10-13-2016, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by MarkGio

The fans know it's a budget team and therefore won't compete. The Sens are in a division full of cap spending teams

If there was a Calgary equivalent for where the arena is the Flames would play in Crossfield. That will hurt any team. 45 minute drive from downtown ottawa.