Sorry about being really late here, but I've considered this issue for months.
- The game was on a Thursday, with a guaranteed game 2 the following day, a Friday. If you're a middle-class family, (which is the majority of the Armada crowd) for the sake of your kids and starting your weekend well, you'd rather spend the money on the Friday game.
- The casual fans, since the Dubois/Boulet acquisitions, expected us to blow through Drummondville with little effort. They'd rather save the money until we inevitably play in round 2, which happened. Then in the Bathurst series, we had good general attendance, except for game 7, which fell on a Tuesday. No casual fan goes to a major junior game on Tuesday.
- As mentioned by Fixed To Ruin, there are some season ticket holders that don't show up. I have a friend who sells tickets at the arena. She showed me the chart of the season ticket holders on her computer screen and I was shocked. Those season tickets alone are enough to have a strong foundation for how many people you'd expect at a game. Unfortunately, some of these corporations don't care whether it's the regular season or playoffs, unless it's a big game (Saint John series).