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Post by scotiahockey on Apr 13, 2023 2:48:15 GMT -4
I was curious and checked the prices across the Q for the 2nd round. Québec: $22 Drummondville $25 Moncton: $26.60-$27.10 (except for for section 116 & club seats) Rimouski: $26.40 Halifax: $27.50 lower, $25.50 upper Sherbrooke: $27 (standing room tickets) Rouyn: $27.82 Québec is interesting, because they're the only ones other than Moncton playing in an arena completely too big for a junior team in its market. It's nice to see they have the sense to adjust their pricing to compensate and get more people in the building. On one hand, I feel like people aren't realistic with their expectations for crowds here. Moncton has a smaller population than places like Chicoutimi, Sherbrooke and Gatineau. If we had an arena built specifically to accommodate the community instead of the entire province/region, it would ideally have a capacity of 4500-5000, and you wouldn't have the wild swings from 7400 at the last regular season game to 3000 in the 1st round. 3100 for a game 7 is awful for sure. But what pisses me off about it is how predictable and avoidable it was. They had a loaded home schedule in March, they could have eased up on promoting some of those relatively meaningless games, and prioritized getting people in the building in the 1st round instead of burning out the casual fans at high ticket prices. And a big issue is everyone has a different break even point...yet there's clearly collusion on what to charge for a ticket. I just see them pricing out normal hockey fans. Not the minimum wage earning students or seniors on pensions....the working middle class trying to have a mortgage, kid(s), and keep a vehicle on the road and groceries in a warm house. If you're squeezing that group out of your league...who exactly are you trying to attract? It doesnt help that all our local media are just in bed with our teams now as extensions of the teams marketing. So there is no fair and proper coverage given to the public...go read the CB Post and Herald's comments on the Eagles for the last decade. If you only read Wily Palov's Eagles comments you'd think there's nothing wrong with how the team has operated. Our local reporter will tell you a goaltender is solid based on a game 2 even if he gave up 8 in game 3. Its almost like the plan for these teams is to focus on the non-vocal fan who doesnt read news or have any interest in the teams makeup or rebuild plan...they just want the people who want to go out on a Friday night and take the approach of we'll open our doors and you pay to come in and have no expectations and everyone will be happy with the outcome and win or lose our media person will let you know why a loss is really a win and why poor performance is just lacking context. The problem I have with the prices, is I can’t bring myself to pay $25+ for a game that doesn’t really mean anything. In the finals or 3rd round, sure. An elimination game with my team having a chance to go to the finals or win the championship, absolutely. Game 1-4 of a series in the first 2 rounds, most definitely not. Especially if you’re a team that’s not really expected to win.. which a lot of 1st/2nd round matchups are. Then from the other side, why do I want to watch my team destroy a team in those games? Does that return my value? I want to watch good hockey, you obviously want your team to win and it’s always fun when your team does win but there’s only so much I’ll pay to see that. The pricing is out of whack, I think everyone knows that and maybe that’s the cost of running a team now, it has to have gone up but if this is the pricing you need, you’re going to see a lot less fans in the building and a lot less teams in the league because they’re not going to survive IMO. Especially in some of the areas these teams are in, the economic struggles are well documented. It’s been beat to death in various threads but like you mentioned the middle class should be the target and the middle class are the ones getting squeezed out the most. They’re the ones you should be drawing and the ones you want to draw. If you can’t get them, then you really can’t get anyone. |
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Post by Jack Bauer on Apr 13, 2023 9:07:09 GMT -4
And a big issue is everyone has a different break even point...yet there's clearly collusion on what to charge for a ticket. I just see them pricing out normal hockey fans. Not the minimum wage earning students or seniors on pensions....the working middle class trying to have a mortgage, kid(s), and keep a vehicle on the road and groceries in a warm house. If you're squeezing that group out of your league...who exactly are you trying to attract? It doesnt help that all our local media are just in bed with our teams now as extensions of the teams marketing. So there is no fair and proper coverage given to the public...go read the CB Post and Herald's comments on the Eagles for the last decade. If you only read Wily Palov's Eagles comments you'd think there's nothing wrong with how the team has operated. Our local reporter will tell you a goaltender is solid based on a game 2 even if he gave up 8 in game 3. Its almost like the plan for these teams is to focus on the non-vocal fan who doesnt read news or have any interest in the teams makeup or rebuild plan...they just want the people who want to go out on a Friday night and take the approach of we'll open our doors and you pay to come in and have no expectations and everyone will be happy with the outcome and win or lose our media person will let you know why a loss is really a win and why poor performance is just lacking context. The problem I have with the prices, is I can’t bring myself to pay $25+ for a game that doesn’t really mean anything. In the finals or 3rd round, sure. An elimination game with my team having a chance to go to the finals or win the championship, absolutely. Game 1-4 of a series in the first 2 rounds, most definitely not. Especially if you’re a team that’s not really expected to win.. which a lot of 1st/2nd round matchups are. Then from the other side, why do I want to watch my team destroy a team in those games? Does that return my value? I want to watch good hockey, you obviously want your team to win and it’s always fun when your team does win but there’s only so much I’ll pay to see that. The pricing is out of whack, I think everyone knows that and maybe that’s the cost of running a team now, it has to have gone up but if this is the pricing you need, you’re going to see a lot less fans in the building and a lot less teams in the league because they’re not going to survive IMO. Especially in some of the areas these teams are in, the economic struggles are well documented. It’s been beat to death in various threads but like you mentioned the middle class should be the target and the middle class are the ones getting squeezed out the most. They’re the ones you should be drawing and the ones you want to draw. If you can’t get them, then you really can’t get anyone. You've nailed it. $25 is a fair price for an exciting/high stakes game. Chances are in this league those are playoff games in rounds 2-4 for a top 4-5 team. So if you're lucky you get 1-2 years of that every 4-5 years. Now imagine you're being asked to support an outlier to that who keeps short circuiting the cycle justifying why patience is impossible while also obsessing over local hires who just show an inability to find the right people like Cape Breton. It gets tough to support that. There's also something happening in plan sight that we're not being really told the truth about imo. We always hear what the break even points are for teams yet I feel like we've seen some teams go huge stretches without meeting that for more then 1-2 seasons so how are all these teams surviving? Some are explainable by a deep pocketed owner willing to eat losses. But I don't know if we can look at a Bathurst and also believe anyone when it comes to what makes them sustainable and what their break even point is. Are we supposed to believe that nobody is ever making money and the best some teams hope for is to just not lose money? So all these deep pocketed owners along with smaller town owner groups and municipalities are all happy to lose money or break even outside of the top 4-5 markets in a league without any revenue sharing? |
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Post by yesisaiditfirst on Apr 13, 2023 9:15:03 GMT -4
And a big issue is everyone has a different break even point...yet there's clearly collusion on what to charge for a ticket. I just see them pricing out normal hockey fans. Not the minimum wage earning students or seniors on pensions....the working middle class trying to have a mortgage, kid(s), and keep a vehicle on the road and groceries in a warm house. If you're squeezing that group out of your league...who exactly are you trying to attract? It doesnt help that all our local media are just in bed with our teams now as extensions of the teams marketing. So there is no fair and proper coverage given to the public...go read the CB Post and Herald's comments on the Eagles for the last decade. If you only read Wily Palov's Eagles comments you'd think there's nothing wrong with how the team has operated. Our local reporter will tell you a goaltender is solid based on a game 2 even if he gave up 8 in game 3. Its almost like the plan for these teams is to focus on the non-vocal fan who doesnt read news or have any interest in the teams makeup or rebuild plan...they just want the people who want to go out on a Friday night and take the approach of we'll open our doors and you pay to come in and have no expectations and everyone will be happy with the outcome and win or lose our media person will let you know why a loss is really a win and why poor performance is just lacking context. The problem I have with the prices, is I can’t bring myself to pay $25+ for a game that doesn’t really mean anything. In the finals or 3rd round, sure. An elimination game with my team having a chance to go to the finals or win the championship, absolutely. Game 1-4 of a series in the first 2 rounds, most definitely not. Especially if you’re a team that’s not really expected to win.. which a lot of 1st/2nd round matchups are. Then from the other side, why do I want to watch my team destroy a team in those games? Does that return my value? I want to watch good hockey, you obviously want your team to win and it’s always fun when your team does win but there’s only so much I’ll pay to see that. The pricing is out of whack, I think everyone knows that and maybe that’s the cost of running a team now, it has to have gone up but if this is the pricing you need, you’re going to see a lot less fans in the building and a lot less teams in the league because they’re not going to survive IMO. Especially in some of the areas these teams are in, the economic struggles are well documented. It’s been beat to death in various threads but like you mentioned the middle class should be the target and the middle class are the ones getting squeezed out the most. They’re the ones you should be drawing and the ones you want to draw. If you can’t get them, then you really can’t get anyone. I wonder though - if your team could use the push and energy of a more full arena is that worth paying for? I take the Baie Comeau games in Baie Comeau. That place was full and noisy and intimidating. In the regular season with small crowds it is not. Once it gets to game 6 at home - in a series with a chance to close out a series at home - been years since they did that - you think that may be worth it. That place should have been full on Easter Monday when everyone knew for 6 days that they had to play it and it was a potential clinching game. I get most teams have no chance of winning. Same in the NHL. The NY Islanders have no chance to win and maybe slim chance in round 1 but they will pack the playoff games. I think since playoffs are rare and important playoff games even rarer that it says something about the community getting behind the junior team players who billet in community all year. The OHL and WHL playoff games were better attended. Throughout the first round even the lesser teams the fans were engaged. Maybe because they had no hockey for a couple of years. I get the dissatisfaction with price of everything. But April hockey fans can make a difference. |
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Post by Jack Bauer on Apr 13, 2023 9:43:17 GMT -4
The problem I have with the prices, is I can’t bring myself to pay $25+ for a game that doesn’t really mean anything. In the finals or 3rd round, sure. An elimination game with my team having a chance to go to the finals or win the championship, absolutely. Game 1-4 of a series in the first 2 rounds, most definitely not. Especially if you’re a team that’s not really expected to win.. which a lot of 1st/2nd round matchups are. Then from the other side, why do I want to watch my team destroy a team in those games? Does that return my value? I want to watch good hockey, you obviously want your team to win and it’s always fun when your team does win but there’s only so much I’ll pay to see that. The pricing is out of whack, I think everyone knows that and maybe that’s the cost of running a team now, it has to have gone up but if this is the pricing you need, you’re going to see a lot less fans in the building and a lot less teams in the league because they’re not going to survive IMO. Especially in some of the areas these teams are in, the economic struggles are well documented. It’s been beat to death in various threads but like you mentioned the middle class should be the target and the middle class are the ones getting squeezed out the most. They’re the ones you should be drawing and the ones you want to draw. If you can’t get them, then you really can’t get anyone. I wonder though - if your team could use the push and energy of a more full arena is that worth paying for? I take the Baie Comeau games in Baie Comeau. That place was full and noisy and intimidating. In the regular season with small crowds it is not. Once it gets to game 6 at home - in a series with a chance to close out a series at home - been years since they did that - you think that may be worth it. That place should have been full on Easter Monday when everyone knew for 6 days that they had to play it and it was a potential clinching game. I get most teams have no chance of winning. Same in the NHL. The NY Islanders have no chance to win and maybe slim chance in round 1 but they will pack the playoff games. I think since playoffs are rare and important playoff games even rarer that it says something about the community getting behind the junior team players who billet in community all year. The OHL and WHL playoff games were better attended. Throughout the first round even the lesser teams the fans were engaged. Maybe because they had no hockey for a couple of years. I get the dissatisfaction with price of everything. But April hockey fans can make a difference. You can't compare the NHL playoffs to the Q. We could if we also eliminated half our teams and our playoffs had parity. I've seen a #8 seed win the Cup. How often has a bottom 4 seed in the Q playoffs done anything? Even the OHL and WHL have more parity. If Bedard was in this league he's either traded or the team is all in. We've created a league where because of the removing of what many perceived as what was creating and driving most of the emotion the only really good hockey worth going out of your way, or going into debt for, is at playoff time between top teams. I'm a middle class earner in a 2 income home. In a 2-3-2 format without home ice I have no issue admitting that those 3 games over 4-5 days would run me around $250 and I would probably need to put some of that on credit. I'm probably willing to do it for a round 3-4 knowing the games should be great even if I don't like the result. But if you apply that to a mediocre team or put those 3 games over 5-6 days in October....there's a better chance I go to 0 games then attend all and go into debt while knowing ahead of time I probably won't leave enjoying what I seen. If I was in Moncton playing a bottom feeder like BC why do I care if we win game 6? If we lost I'd rather attend a game 7. If we win, we're supposed to beat B-C anyway, i'll save my money for round 2 and take in game 3 and hope we can pull out a gritty effort vs Halifax. Once it starts to get close to $100 for just 2 adults to attend a game the Q's cycle teams making themselves willingly bad for 3 years just makes no sense as a sustainable model. You're allowed to go all in and have a long rebuild....but don't expect fans to support those down years with their entertainment dollar when there's less and less of those dollars to go around. And the elephant in the room nobody discusses...the games are out there to stream for all. 15 years ago I may have had a crap webcast option but reality was I probably had to buy a ticket to follow the team or follow a series. Now all anyone needs is the internet because everyone has huge flat screens to watch things on that provide a more comfortable seating option and cheaper snacks. The longer that is ignored the harder life will become on those trying to get people in the door. |
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Post by Penguins23® on Apr 13, 2023 10:30:19 GMT -4
I wonder though - if your team could use the push and energy of a more full arena is that worth paying for? I take the Baie Comeau games in Baie Comeau. That place was full and noisy and intimidating. In the regular season with small crowds it is not. Once it gets to game 6 at home - in a series with a chance to close out a series at home - been years since they did that - you think that may be worth it. That place should have been full on Easter Monday when everyone knew for 6 days that they had to play it and it was a potential clinching game. I get most teams have no chance of winning. Same in the NHL. The NY Islanders have no chance to win and maybe slim chance in round 1 but they will pack the playoff games. I think since playoffs are rare and important playoff games even rarer that it says something about the community getting behind the junior team players who billet in community all year. The OHL and WHL playoff games were better attended. Throughout the first round even the lesser teams the fans were engaged. Maybe because they had no hockey for a couple of years. I get the dissatisfaction with price of everything. But April hockey fans can make a difference. You can't compare the NHL playoffs to the Q. We could if we also eliminated half our teams and our playoffs had parity. I've seen a #8 seed win the Cup. How often has a bottom 4 seed in the Q playoffs done anything? Even the OHL and WHL have more parity. If Bedard was in this league he's either traded or the team is all in. We've created a league where because of the removing of what many perceived as what was creating and driving most of the emotion the only really good hockey worth going out of your way, or going into debt for, is at playoff time between top teams. I'm a middle class earner in a 2 income home. In a 2-3-2 format without home ice I have no issue admitting that those 3 games over 4-5 days would run me around $250 and I would probably need to put some of that on credit. I'm probably willing to do it for a round 3-4 knowing the games should be great even if I don't like the result. But if you apply that to a mediocre team or put those 3 games over 5-6 days in October....there's a better chance I go to 0 games then attend all and go into debt while knowing ahead of time I probably won't leave enjoying what I seen. If I was in Moncton playing a bottom feeder like BC why do I care if we win game 6? If we lost I'd rather attend a game 7. If we win, we're supposed to beat B-C anyway, i'll save my money for round 2 and take in game 3 and hope we can pull out a gritty effort vs Halifax. Once it starts to get close to $100 for just 2 adults to attend a game the Q's cycle teams making themselves willingly bad for 3 years just makes no sense as a sustainable model. You're allowed to go all in and have a long rebuild....but don't expect fans to support those down years with their entertainment dollar when there's less and less of those dollars to go around. And the elephant in the room nobody discusses...the games are out there to stream for all. 15 years ago I may have had a crap webcast option but reality was I probably had to buy a ticket to follow the team or follow a series. Now all anyone needs is the internet because everyone has huge flat screens to watch things on that provide a more comfortable seating option and cheaper snacks. The longer that is ignored the harder life will become on those trying to get people in the door. First of all, no one is forcing you to spend $100 for 2 adults to attend a game. If you’re unable to go 3 hours without needing to spend $50 on food and drinks then you have bigger problems than Q team pricing. Secondly, Moncton playing a bottom feeder in Baie Comeau? Moncton got to play Bathurst and Saint John all year and only finished 8 points higher than Baie Comeau. Most Quebec “experts” predicted Baie Comeau to win the series. I’d much rather go see game 6 and 7 against Baie Comeau after a bunch of contested games than go see game 3 against Halifax when they’re likely to get blown out. Not even close in my opinion. I also have to laugh at people that bring up excuses about parking and location. Any of those excuses exist when the Cats are averaging 4500 fans in the regular season. The frustrating part for fans is seeing how much the Cats brass cares about regular season attendance and how little they care about playoff attendance. Like someone mentioned, they had 5-6 days to come up with ways to get a crowd for game 6 and did absolutely nothing. They gave away flex tickets to next year’s games instead. I spoke with someone that works in marketing for another Q team and they pretty much confirmed what everyone assumes. At the draft they have meetings among al teams to discuss strategies and the Wildcats never bring any ideas to the table nor do they seem interested in any ideas from other teams. Other teams envy the Cats due to their seemingly large budget but laugh at their lack of innovation and willingness to deviate from their set plan. Bottom line is there are 50 million ways to try and improve playoff attendance and the Wildcats have tried none of them and I’m not sure they care. |
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Post by Captain Obvious on Apr 13, 2023 10:45:48 GMT -4
You can't compare the NHL playoffs to the Q. We could if we also eliminated half our teams and our playoffs had parity. I've seen a #8 seed win the Cup. How often has a bottom 4 seed in the Q playoffs done anything? Even the OHL and WHL have more parity. If Bedard was in this league he's either traded or the team is all in. We've created a league where because of the removing of what many perceived as what was creating and driving most of the emotion the only really good hockey worth going out of your way, or going into debt for, is at playoff time between top teams. I'm a middle class earner in a 2 income home. In a 2-3-2 format without home ice I have no issue admitting that those 3 games over 4-5 days would run me around $250 and I would probably need to put some of that on credit. I'm probably willing to do it for a round 3-4 knowing the games should be great even if I don't like the result. But if you apply that to a mediocre team or put those 3 games over 5-6 days in October....there's a better chance I go to 0 games then attend all and go into debt while knowing ahead of time I probably won't leave enjoying what I seen. If I was in Moncton playing a bottom feeder like BC why do I care if we win game 6? If we lost I'd rather attend a game 7. If we win, we're supposed to beat B-C anyway, i'll save my money for round 2 and take in game 3 and hope we can pull out a gritty effort vs Halifax. Once it starts to get close to $100 for just 2 adults to attend a game the Q's cycle teams making themselves willingly bad for 3 years just makes no sense as a sustainable model. You're allowed to go all in and have a long rebuild....but don't expect fans to support those down years with their entertainment dollar when there's less and less of those dollars to go around. And the elephant in the room nobody discusses...the games are out there to stream for all. 15 years ago I may have had a crap webcast option but reality was I probably had to buy a ticket to follow the team or follow a series. Now all anyone needs is the internet because everyone has huge flat screens to watch things on that provide a more comfortable seating option and cheaper snacks. The longer that is ignored the harder life will become on those trying to get people in the door. First of all, no one is forcing you to spend $100 for 2 adults to attend a game. If you’re unable to go 3 hours without needing to spend $50 on food and drinks then you have bigger problems than Q team pricing. Secondly, Moncton playing a bottom feeder in Baie Comeau? Moncton got to play Bathurst and Saint John all year and only finished 8 points higher than Baie Comeau. Most Quebec “experts” predicted Baie Comeau to win the series. I’d much rather go see game 6 and 7 against Baie Comeau after a bunch of contested games than go see game 3 against Halifax when they’re likely to get blown out. Not even close in my opinion. I also have to laugh at people that bring up excuses about parking and location. Any of those excuses exist when the Cats are averaging 4500 fans in the regular season. The frustrating part for fans is seeing how much the Cats brass cares about regular season attendance and how little they care about playoff attendance. Like someone mentioned, they had 5-6 days to come up with ways to get a crowd for game 6 and did absolutely nothing. They gave away flex tickets to next year’s games instead. I spoke with someone that works in marketing for another Q team and they pretty much confirmed what everyone assumes. At the draft they have meetings among al teams to discuss strategies and the Wildcats never bring any ideas to the table nor do they seem interested in any ideas from other teams. Other teams envy the Cats due to their seemingly large budget but laugh at their lack of innovation and willingness to deviate from their set plan. Bottom line is there are 50 million ways to try and improve playoff attendance and the Wildcats have tried none of them and I’m not sure they care. Their strategies and plans all have to start and end at the top, that's why we see the constant turnover in off ice staff. |
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Post by Jack Bauer on Apr 13, 2023 12:13:59 GMT -4
First of all, no one is forcing you to spend $100 for 2 adults to attend a game. If you’re unable to go 3 hours without needing to spend $50 on food and drinks then you have bigger problems than Q team pricing. Secondly, Moncton playing a bottom feeder in Baie Comeau? Moncton got to play Bathurst and Saint John all year and only finished 8 points higher than Baie Comeau. Most Quebec “experts” predicted Baie Comeau to win the series. I’d much rather go see game 6 and 7 against Baie Comeau after a bunch of contested games than go see game 3 against Halifax when they’re likely to get blown out. Not even close in my opinion. I also have to laugh at people that bring up excuses about parking and location. Any of those excuses exist when the Cats are averaging 4500 fans in the regular season. The frustrating part for fans is seeing how much the Cats brass cares about regular season attendance and how little they care about playoff attendance. Like someone mentioned, they had 5-6 days to come up with ways to get a crowd for game 6 and did absolutely nothing. They gave away flex tickets to next year’s games instead. I spoke with someone that works in marketing for another Q team and they pretty much confirmed what everyone assumes. At the draft they have meetings among al teams to discuss strategies and the Wildcats never bring any ideas to the table nor do they seem interested in any ideas from other teams. Other teams envy the Cats due to their seemingly large budget but laugh at their lack of innovation and willingness to deviate from their set plan. Bottom line is there are 50 million ways to try and improve playoff attendance and the Wildcats have tried none of them and I’m not sure they care. 100%. You don't need to spend $20 on a couple of drinks and even splits. But when you're already in over $50 for the tickets that extra $20 just seems like a part of the game. Especially if taking kids. But yeah you can cut it down a bit if you're really trying to pull it off as cheap as possible. Hell take it even further and leave the wife at home and go with a couple buddies...but that may cause other issues haha Which game to go to comes down to personal preference. Maybe the Easter weekend changed up some routines where the Halifax games next week might seem like an easier game to attend. Maybe after going to game 1 and/or 2 you dont get paid again for 2 weeks so the next round just lines up better for you. For many it may come down to knowing more about the teams and wanting to see the Halifax leading scorers. But what the teams miss out on is marketing around any of that imo. They are very good (not great) at the longer term stuff they plan early in the year and doing some things right throughout the year with minor hockey groups but if a big playoff game lands on Easter Weekend...get out to the local malls and grocery stores on the Thursday and Saturday around Good Friday and get your brand out there...print off a bunch of pairs of physical tickets and have someone selling $40 pairs in places where people are already spending money. There's some old school ways to try and fix some newer issues. |
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Post by chootoi on Apr 13, 2023 12:22:55 GMT -4
Seems like every square inch of the Avenir is covered with ads along with every last second of game stoppage time. Plus there's the box revenue now vs the Coliseum. Corporate revenues have to be way up.
I have club seats in 105 and I can tell you pretty much the entire section around me are corporately purchased as you would expect, but most nights they sit empty. The businesses aren't even using them or giving them away. They mostly reserve the seats for first dibs on concerts etc. Plus when Avenir first opened it was a multi-year commitment. So there's another example of they got your money, who cares if you show up?
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Post by yesisaiditfirst on Apr 13, 2023 12:34:50 GMT -4
As a Halifax season ticket holder...tickets already bought up front most games I attend still cost me an extra $20 automatically. I am either getting dinner on way to game, or grab a bite at the game, or on way home from game (some drive thru) and in Halifax many times I pay parking. So true all those are costs you need multiply some of them by the party.
My tickets I budget each year. Halifax normally makes the playoffs so I budget additional $ each season and this makes up 30%-40% of our vacation/entertainment most years. This year I didn't buy the WJC package because couldn't justify it and it was announced late.
If the brier or memorial cup were coming I would be in on those events the first day. But it's all budgeting.
I get it that casual fans don't have season seats and make their mind up as they go. The organization needs to sell the value of choosing your team (wildcats) experience over the movies, a concert, having less vacation, maybe no trip to Caribbean every winter.
I think they go strong on subscription STH marketing when maybe they need to go after casual fans - it's a different sale. They need to sell the highlights of a season. Key rivals. Friday nights. Saturday or Sunday for families.
If that were done the playoff attendance would grow organically and then not be so price sensitive when the if necessary playoff dates become real playoff dates.
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Post by hockeyfanatic on Apr 13, 2023 13:40:16 GMT -4
any thoughts on possible line combinations against halifax ? any word on Taibel ? was working last game so was wondering what the line combo's were ? Sounded like Labelle was with Loshing and Smith , and Beaudoin was with Barbashev, mercier ?
Moncton has average attendance for a city this size, check the attendance in the OHL , some of the city's around the GTA draw less.
Most of my buddies don't go out week nights and until the wildcats get into the later rounds and the buzz starts to go around town the attendance stays low. As far as the price it is average also, most people I talk too just stay home and watch/stream games , they don't say it's too expensive (except concessions).
It is a big venue and the city has to get their money back somehow. I find the taxes haven't gone up too bad since the new rink was built and I'm happy about that.
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Post by sliderz on Apr 13, 2023 14:12:25 GMT -4
I'm a Mooseheads Season Member so I don't have much knowledge on this but what did the Wildcats do for their season ticket holders for the playoffs? Did they increase per game ticket prices, or lower them?
Just asking as I'm paying $14 per game (versus $18 regular season) for any playoff game in my playoff package, I have my season prices frozen for next season and received 2 playoff shirts the 2 seats I have. By lowering the prices and providing incentives, I think the Moose made the playoffs attractive to the point that anybody on the fence was going to take the plunge to buy them and renew for next season. Wondering if anything was done for the fans who attend 34 games a season or even 15-20?
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Post by Penguins23® on Apr 14, 2023 11:39:11 GMT -4
I'm a Mooseheads Season Member so I don't have much knowledge on this but what did the Wildcats do for their season ticket holders for the playoffs? Did they increase per game ticket prices, or lower them? Just asking as I'm paying $14 per game (versus $18 regular season) for any playoff game in my playoff package, I have my season prices frozen for next season and received 2 playoff shirts the 2 seats I have. By lowering the prices and providing incentives, I think the Moose made the playoffs attractive to the point that anybody on the fence was going to take the plunge to buy them and renew for next season. Wondering if anything was done for the fans who attend 34 games a season or even 15-20? It varies by section but playoff tickets were around $21 as part of the playoff package compared to $18 for the regular season. There is absolutely nothing done for season ticket holders other than 15% off at the boutique and a couple of buddy passes and coupons for 50/50 and programs. Apparently they came out with an app for exclusive discounts and nothing was on there all season. Mooseheads are organizing a bus trip for game 4 so that should help the attendance at least. |
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Post by lirette on Apr 14, 2023 21:22:03 GMT -4
Let's goooooo! I honestly can't believe that game. Steinman was unbelievable. Credit to Grenier for the beauty goal, should help his confidence. Really hope this gives a nice boost to Wednesdays crowd
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Post by WhiteTyAffair on Apr 15, 2023 6:02:04 GMT -4
Let's goooooo! I honestly can't believe that game. Steinman was unbelievable. Credit to Grenier for the beauty goal, should help his confidence. Really hope this gives a nice boost to Wednesdays crowd Those Wildcast Podcast idiots (especially Jeremy) called it. They said Moncton would win game 1 because of the fresher game legs. Usually I don’t believe a thing those guys say but they got this one right. |
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Post by Arnold Slick on Apr 15, 2023 9:16:11 GMT -4
Let's goooooo! I honestly can't believe that game. Steinman was unbelievable. Credit to Grenier for the beauty goal, should help his confidence. Really hope this gives a nice boost to Wednesdays crowd Those Wildcast Podcast idiots (especially Jeremy) called it. They said Moncton would win game 1 because of the fresher game legs. Usually I don’t believe a thing those guys say but they got this one right. You know what they say - even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. My expectations for this series are already exceeded with that win. Whichever Ontario scout found Steinman deserves a raise. |
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