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This season 95 per cent of tickets have been sold.

The Canucks are averaging 18,000 which is only 347 fewer per game than Edmonton and 884 fewer than Calgary which has been in the playoff race most of the year.

Neither of these Alberta teams are averaging sellouts.

This idea the Alberta teams have been backed through thick and thin also doesn’t really hold water .

Flames attendance cratered for almost a decade:

The Oilers had a similar experience as the Canucks in the 90s.

Edmonton:

Vancouver:

Yes, the Oilers were selling out when the sucked in the decade before McDavid and that’s commendable.

But they did have a series of first overall picks to market, and an arena that was among the smallest in the league with a capacity in the 16,000s.

BEST LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE

All things consiered fans here are doing just fine, than,s

But I don’t want an impression Canucks interest is, uhm, exploding.

It’s not. Just the opposite.

I was told HNIC had never run Canucks ticket promos before and did it tonight.

But what do you expect for a team with the worst record in hockey for three years?

You expect this story that follows.

There was a Bo Horvat signing at a mall , which was smartly covered by CTV’s Christina Heydanus Thursday.

Event reps were gum shoeing the mall hard in attempt to corral people to the Rogers store where Horvat was taking pics and signing jerseys.

In that CTV report was this was lineup at the store and this was after all that work was put in trying to get people there.

That’s, uhm, six deep.

The arrow at the back points to some lonely velvet-style ropes which were set up to direct the crowds that never came like the ones at YVR which funnel you into security.

I’m sure there’s reasons for it. The event probably wasn’t properly advertised.

Still, based on where this team was in the market not that long ago, this is just a little sad.

Look what you’ve done, Prez.