NHL General Discussion

[Eli26]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

Dude, go to a NFL game..

And these guys are talking about massive strong hockey markets. The better the hockey market the more people will pay.

It's like that in any big market league area... NHL, NBA, MLB, NFL... etc.

So who wants to go to Florida? lol

 

[SixMillionDollarMan Guy]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

The NFL doesn't rely on ticket sales to support their league.

 

[Deeznutz6]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

The NFL doesn't rely on ticket sales to support their league.

Bingo, they are not as over priced as the other leagues

I will agree that NHL,NBA MLB has stupid ticket pirces in large markets

I plan on hitting up Florida next year, play some golf and catch a cheap Panthers and Bolts game

 

[SixMillionDollarMan Guy]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

One interesting part of this 48-game schedule is if a team plays a bad stretch of hockey (8-9 games), the playoffs are in jeopardy.

 

[SixMillionDollarMan Guy]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

Bingo, they are not as over priced as the other leagues

I will agree that NHL,NBA MLB has stupid ticket pirces in large markets

I plan on hitting up Florida next year, play some golf and catch a cheap Panthers and Bolts game

The NFL tv contracts alone pays all the bills. Also, gambling and fantasy football has taken that league to the next level.

The worst thing that happened to the NHL is when they left Espn and lost that immense national exposure.

 

[The Ringer]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

Looks like Pronger is now officialy done. Giroux will carry the C well.

 

[bicoid18]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

Man that sucks. You may hate guy playing against your team, but you gotta respect the hell out of him. I just hope Pronger will be able to live a normal life. Such a shame for a warrior like him to go out like that.

On a concussion related note, why are the Leafs pressuring Gardiner back so soon?

Also smdh at Komisarek hitting JVR on his good foot with his shot. Dude is just bad luck.

 

[xjamiex]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

Looks like Pronger is now officialy done. Giroux will carry the C well.

Woah, awesome! Well deserved too- I knew it had to be either Danny B or G but I'm happy it's G. Obviously Danny B will be his right hand man though, he practically raised Giroux.

 

[Eli26]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

I call BS on the NFL tickets not being expensive. And a big I get and know where they get most of their revenue from (it's well documented to even those few in the not-so-know), but there are some damn expensive tickets out there as well....

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--most-expensive-nfl-tickets-2012.html

Don't kid yourselves, the NFL makes a lot on tickets and the sales of those tickets. I could look up the low end, but I am up far past beyond my bed time. My point was that big league sports in big markets in general come with an *** raping, and it doesn't matter the league. lol

Also getting tired and bored of the same song and dance how the NFL has a much better TV deal than the NHL. It's a tired comparison. I only made a comparison because it seems that all other leagues are exempt of such an *** raping comment. The NHL gets knocked on pretty harshly, but those prices are set appropriately to their markets. Thus why those vary markets constantly produce sell out games and have wait lists that extend outward to around 15,000. The bar on the prices maybe set unrealistically high, but how unrealistic is it when people continue to pay those so-called unrealistic prices? For their respective markets, they are quite realistic. Having said that, I agree they are excessively high, and I still say that these eye-gouging and soul-sucking prices are across the board when it comes to big market pro league teams. I honestly am not a fan of it. Yes, I have season tickets with an NHL team, but I seldom go to the games. I sell most of them. I knew with the craze and excitement behind getting the Jets, there would come huge demand for those to see the games. I rather be in the bubble looking out vs outside looking in. This way I get first dibs on the games that are priorities to me like your Pittsburgh Penguins, Philadelphia Flyers, and your Washington Capitals. Just a few teams as examples. Unfortunately we won't be seeing any Western teams this year. If we do make the playoffs, and that's a BIG IF, I doubt we go far enough into them to see any.

 

[Eli26]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

And please SMDG, sign up for a team! It will be fun.

Remember, part of hockey pools is luck. I won't lie, it helps to know a lot, but even the best team on paper can implode due to guys having off years and injuries. The person(s) who drafted Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin last year was hoping for probably around 200 NHL points between those two guys alone. Instead they got 102 points between them, which works out to 51 points each. Boo-urns. I won my one hockey pool missing out on a lot of key star players. Or so I thought. However, all my guys broke out at great times... Daniel Sedin led the league in scoring despite missing out on his brother who got 10 less points, and Corey Perry won the Rocket Richard and MVP honours over a Ryan Getzlaf who failed to produce 80 points that season for me. I wanted Henrik Sedin and Getzlaf. I belly ached how I kept missing the better Canuck and Duck. lol

 

[Valfar]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

I wonder how much that lower bowl ticket would cost to see Toronto play in their arena?

https://mapleleafs.nhl.com/v2/ext/2011-2012LeafsPricingMapPrices.pdf

It is pretty nasty.

Last time i had free tickets to a game at ACC the face value was priced at $265 per ticket for platinum(side).

 

[Eli26]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

Valfar, you going in?

 

[xjamiex]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

Hmm first move of Nonis for the Leafs- Lombardi to the Coyotes for a draft pick. Not bad!

 

[SixMillionDollarMan Guy]

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https://mapleleafs.nhl.com/v2/ext/2011-2012LeafsPricingMapPrices.pdf

It is pretty nasty.

Last time i had free tickets to a game at ACC the face value was priced at $265 per ticket for platinum(side).

Thanks for that pricing chart. Wow, that's high.

Not surprised though. Toronto has always been considered a world city, thus, high prices for everything.

 

[xjamiex]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

Thanks for that pricing chart. Wow, that's high.

Not surprised though. Toronto has always been considered a world city, thus, high prices for everything.

You don't even want to know what the housing market is like... It's atrocious!

 

[SixMillionDollarMan Guy]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

You don't even want to know what the housing market is like... It's atrocious!

I've heard it's just brutal. Toronto is a beautiful world city like Paris, New York, San Francisco, Sydney, Singapore, London and Milan. No doubt along with that prestige comes higher prices.

 

[SixMillionDollarMan Guy]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

I call BS on the NFL tickets not being expensive. And a big I get and know where they get most of their revenue from (it's well documented to even those few in the not-so-know), but there are some damn expensive tickets out there as well....

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--most-expensive-nfl-tickets-2012.html

You do understand the link you provided has a fatal flaw. From the article....

The prices do not represent the face value of the ticket, but what they cost through resources like Craigslist, eBay, StubHub and TicketNetwork. These prices are aggregated by TiqIQ, the leading secondary market aggregator for event tickets online.

Eli, those are Average ticket asking price, not face value.

Don't kid yourselves, the NFL makes a lot on tickets and the sales of those tickets. I could look up the low end, but I am up far past beyond my bed time. My point was that big league sports in big markets in general come with an *** raping, and it doesn't matter the league. lol

Sure, some can and some do. Like I said before, the national tv contracts pay for almost everything. Sure, the NFL makes money on ticket sales but that's just gravy going into the owners and league pockets. The NFL isn't dependent on ticket sales to run their league like the NHL.

Also getting tired and bored of the same song and dance how the NFL has a much better TV deal than the NHL. It's a tired comparison. I only made a comparison because it seems that all other leagues are exempt of such an *** raping comment. The NHL gets knocked on pretty harshly, but those prices are set appropriately to their markets. Thus why those vary markets constantly produce sell out games and have wait lists that extend outward to around 15,000. The bar on the prices maybe set unrealistically high, but how unrealistic is it when people continue to pay those so-called unrealistic prices? For their respective markets, they are quite realistic. Having said that, I agree they are excessively high, and I still say that these eye-gouging and soul-sucking prices are across the board when it comes to big market pro league teams. I honestly am not a fan of it.

Eli, you have to remember the NFL season tickets are easier to swallow than NHL season tickets. You pay for 8 home games (and forced to pay for 2 pre-season games). The highest ticket to a Minnesota Vikings game is $143 ($1280 if you buy season tickets with discount). Of course, prices will be higher in New York and Dallas.

All I'm saying it's more affordable to go to NFL games than the NHL.

And yes, I do agree with you that prices are set appropriately to their markets.

 

[CriterionCollector]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

Zajac signed to a long term deal. Nice!

 

[SixMillionDollarMan Guy]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

Even though I'm not a Wild fan, I do live in the Twin Cities and follow the local sports scene closely. So I'll do my best to give occasional Wild updates for this thread.

1. The Wild scrimmaged tonight with teams split between the Wild and Houston Aeros. 18,000 tickets were claimed and it looks like everyone showed up.

2. Single day game tickets went on sale this morning and some folks camped out but were let into the building due to the cold. Some slept in the seats.

So much for the lockout, in Minnesota anyway.

-Mikael Granlund looked smooth out on the ice. So did Pierre Marc Bouchard.

-Jared Spurgeon is turning into a solid defensemen.

 

[Eli26]

Re: 2013 NHL Season

I admit, it probably wasn't my best post, or the best supporting link.. I read more into it and I see that now. It wasn't asking for prices.. again, this is why one shouldn't be posting at 4 AM in the morning.

A friend posted this concerning the draft...

I've got a list from my other league that is drafting tomorrow...also can't attend
So....do I send my list to someone?
Do I program it into... like Yahoo fantasy sports or something?
Hows this all gonna work?