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What’s this, the Winnipeg Jets bandwagon isn’t quite as overcrowded as it used to be?

It seems some of the flag-waving and jersey-wearing leather lungs have stopped chanting True North long enough to see the downtown rink isn’t necessarily the place to be to follow their favourite shinny club.

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The Jets this week acknowledged their 312-game regular-season sell-out streak came to an end in Tuesday’s loss to Arizona.

The biggest surprise wasn’t that some 561 seats remained unsold to watch the relocated Jets 1.0 take on Version 2.0 on a Tuesday in October, but that True North Sports actually acknowledged it.

A few seasons ago, the availability of hundreds of tickets on the Ticket Monster website right up until game time had already piqued my interest.

The Jets, rather sensitive about this subject, always downplayed it, saying those tickets were mostly from the batch set aside for the league or visiting teams and didn’t count and, besides, a near-sell-out was close enough to a sell-out for them.