Quebec wouldn't fight for relegation, they'd be a solid team. They even have 2.5 million more inhabitants than for example Finland.
WJC: Attendance
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Quebec wouldn't fight for relegation, they'd be a solid team. They even have 2.5 million more inhabitants than for example Finland.
Rocko604
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Wow. This season aside, I usually find the CFL more entertaining, and I'm also a big NFL and college fan.
Would love to hear your opinion on the college football and the prices for the College Football Playoff, since they're not pros and ESPN just rams it down everyone's throat.
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Personally I find the NFL more entertaining because it doesn't favor offence so much. It also has the higher level athletes. The bigger end zone, wide receivers getting a running start make it easy for offenses. The 5 yard space on returns.
As for attendance at the bell centre, if you made a team Quebec and charged the same prices, it would be just as empty
it's not about patriotism, it's about charging the same prices / or greater for junior games as they do for pro games.
I know my nephews were given the choice of attending a team Canada game or watching at home and getting a PS4. We're all watching USA-Russia now and we'll be playing some ps4 during intermission.
As for attendance at the bell centre, if you made a team Quebec and charged the same prices, it would be just as empty
it's not about patriotism, it's about charging the same prices / or greater for junior games as they do for pro games.I know my nephews were given the choice of attending a team Canada game or watching at home and getting a PS4. We're all watching USA-Russia now and we'll be playing some ps4 during intermission.
jeangauthier
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Watched pretty much every game that didn't over lap and $1000 bucks richer...............I guess I'm not a real fan......
And I don't blame the Americans that live 45 minutes south not showing up either........that border thing and all.........
And I don't blame the Americans that live 45 minutes south not showing up either........that border thing and all.........
The fact is that the New Years Eve game was the biggest sporting event in Canada last year and Montreal didn't sell it out.
Personally I find the NFL more entertaining because it doesn't favor offence so much. It also has the higher level athletes. The bigger end zone, wide receivers getting a running start make it easy for offenses. The 5 yard space on returns.
As for attendance at the bell centre, if you made a team Quebec and charged the same prices, it would be just as empty
I know my nephews were given the choice of attending a team Canada game or watching at home and getting a PS4. We're all watching USA-Russia now and we'll be playing some ps4 during intermission.
but at a hockey game you cant get hacked.
jeangauthier
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Personally I find the NFL more entertaining because it doesn't favor offence so much. It also has the higher level athletes. The bigger end zone, wide receivers getting a running start make it easy for offenses. The 5 yard space on returns.
As for attendance at the bell centre, if you made a team Quebec and charged the same prices, it would be just as empty
I know my nephews were given the choice of attending a team Canada game or watching at home and getting a PS4. We're all watching USA-Russia now and we'll be playing some ps4 during intermission.
I'm at my lake house which is 20 minutes from Ft.Covington,NY and was invited to watch the games there today with friends
I asked why weren't they in Montreal to watch this once in a life time event?.............I guess those 10 million Yanks that live in Vt.,NY and NH within 3 hrs. Are not real hockey fans either............where are all these real hockey fans from?
Classified
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And they still cant sell out. Halifax would sell out at tickets that price.
I know you cant compare the rinks but.
Rocko604
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Until the ratings come out, that title still belongs to the Grey Cup. 4.1 million viewers averaged, 10 million tuning in at some point with 54,000 in attendance. Coincidentally though, Vancouver had a tough time selling it out because of ticket prices.
The CFL is been around for about 60 years. Some of the clubs have been around 100 years.
TSN has only been around 25 years. TSN took the CFL into the TV age but no league would be around this long if it offered a sub par entertainment value and wasn't managed pragmatically through all the ups and downs the CFL has gone through. CFL teams have managed to survive while we seen the likes of the WHA, numerous soccer leagues, Expos & Grizzlies fall by the wayside.
Rocko604
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2.4 on Boxing Day according to the post on the last page. I'm sure NYE passed 4 as well.
jeangauthier
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Rocko604
Sports will break your heart.
CH4
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2000$ for a pair of tickets is the reason why it wasn't sold out, nothing to do with loyalty.
if people of halifax were ready to spend that much good for them. let them host the next tournament round robin, then play the finals in Montreal, we'll see who sells and who doesn't. I understand very well montrealers who didn't go.
CH4
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congrats, I paid that amount for one season tickets here in Chicoutimi and I think it's too costly.
playoffs games goes for 25$ and I see the same hockey that you do but I see over 40 games for the price of one.
everyone has their priorities.
ClasslessGuy
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This is just plain stupid and by the way what token players are you talking about?
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You mean game 5 of the presidents cup final when they won? Funny, I think I paid $16.75/seat for two in the lower bowl right from ticket atlantic. I did see a few posts on kijiji for expensive tickets, but if anyone was stupid enough to pay that, I don't know.
Come on dude, I get the point your trying to make about having the event here, but there is no way to compare the two. In Halifax, that is the event of th year, in Montreal, it's just another event. Let's not forget about the Habs deep playoff run this year, if I was a Montrealer with a limited sports budget I would have paid my money in May and sacrificed the world juniors.
I went to see two games, finland/usa and slovakia/finland.
There were decent crowds, but tocket prices are atrocious.it should be a tournament showcasing hockey to young people but Instaed its way too expensive. Montreal isn't a rich city people don't have 200-600 bucks to watch one game let alone 3-4.
There were decent crowds, but tocket prices are atrocious.it should be a tournament showcasing hockey to young people but Instaed its way too expensive. Montreal isn't a rich city people don't have 200-600 bucks to watch one game let alone 3-4.
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