I was just watching some of a preliminary round Canada Cup game from 1987 between Canada and Czechoslovakia on ESPN Classics and noticed the thousands upon thousands of empty seats for the game at Calgary's Saddledome. This is for a Canadian team with the likes of Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Messier, Coffey and Fuhr. Such a game today would sell out without any problem at all but as recently as the 1980s, as popular as hockey has always been in Canada, it could still be a tough sell at times.