Early games always suffer from the same issues - CHL in particular are weeknight games and still in the school holidays.
People are away, or maybe thinking they’ll get back a bit late on the Thursday night.
I guess there’s also the fact that we went down 10-1 in our first game last season, so people maybe aren’t holding out too much hope for this competition.
It also doesn’t help that we haven’t set the world on fire in preseason (not that I think it’s important) and the latest news being Parisi leaving. Not exactly buzz inducing stuff so far.
Just in case someone reads this who is unsure about going Thursday, I was at every CHL home game and last year and they were amongst the most exciting hockey games I’ve ever watched. Highly recommend