The Vancouver Canucks opened up their 2017-18 last Saturday in terrific fashion, defeating Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers in a thrilling 3-2 victory. I was there to witness it, and the atmosphere was almost playoff-like, even if a large chunk of the folks were wearing Oiler jerseys.
Three days later, I was there to watch a fairly entertaining game against the Edmonton Oilers; one in which the Canucks lost 3-2 in a shootout. As Dario Balca from CTV News pointed out, however, there were nearly 1,600 less fans at the Sens game.
Yesterday, Jason Brough of TSN gave an alarming figure of what the Canucks attendance was, while also showing what attendance looked like during warmups against the Winnipeg Jets:
Per Balca, that’s the lowest Canucks attendance figures since 2001.