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I continuously hear Leafs fans fed up with this team voicing the idea that if fans simply stopped attending games, that the empty building would finally spur the team to make the changes that they so desperately need. While these fans’ hearts are in the right place (boycotting games is a nice sentiment), their heads unfortunately are not.

There will never be a situation where this team will be hurt by lack of ticket sales. Here’s why…

The Air Canada Centre has a hockey capacity of 18,819. Now among those approximately 19,000 spots, there are many seats, as well as boxes, that are corporately owned and will never go empty. However, for the purposes of this article we’ll pretend that the entire capacity of the ACC is privately owned season tickets and publically available seats.

Start with the season ticket holders. These folks have shelled out so much money for their season tickets that they would have to be insane, or the most dedicated Leafs fans on the face of the earth, to be willing to rip up those tickets in protest of the team. Especially when you consider that many of them have paid seat license fees which run at least $10,000, and often more if the seats were purchased privately from the original licensee. These people are not going to let that kind of money go to waste.

Now think about the remaining seats available for the public to purchase. Let’s go even further and pretend there are no season ticket holders in the ACC and every spot in the building is available to purchase for any given game. So approximately 19,000 seats are available. 19,000 seats to ration out to millions of Leafs fans in the GTA, and thousands more in the surrounding areas. Even if you could convince 90% of the Leafs fans in and around Toronto, the remaining ones would still be so large in number that they would easily fill out the building and still leave people wishing they could’ve got tickets.

There is no way that the Air Canada Centre will ever be empty, there is simply far too much demand for far too little supply. So please folks, stop suggesting we empty out the building to teach the team a lesson. It’s simply not ever going to happen.

Stumble it!