I mean, it doesn’t matter how YOU look at it. The NHL is a business, albeit a poorly run one, but a business nonetheless.Tage Thompson is a zero whose name should never occur in the same sentence with Gretzky's, and you know squat about European hockey.
Exactly. In a country with incomparably higher incomes.
You mean business sense. Hate to break it to you, but here in Europe we still like to look at sports primarily from the perspective of sports, not business. If your main goal in life is to make loads of money, do business – don't meddle in sports.
I'm an NHL fan, but I'm saying: keep it on your shores, no need to bring it over here as an overpriced circus for the select rich and crowds of foreign tourists.
Cheapest Readily Available Ticket to NHL Games in Prague: € 160
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Shark Finn, always tells it like it is and never sugar coats things no matter who the poster is
Czechboy
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Pretty much all of this.
Leafs tickets are how much?
Now do the Marlies...
Extraliga is not on the NHL level. This is a special attraction like Taylor Swift or pearl jam coming to town.
Once again, mentioning Pearl Jam and Buffalo Sabres in the same breath is blasphemy. The Sabres are something like your local bar band.
(The comparison to musical acts is patently wrong. There's only one Pearl Jam and only so many concerts they can give in any given year. But there are over 1000 regular season NHL games every year. It's a non-unique event – humdrum regular season games between two non-playoff teams from last season. Price them accordingly, or keep them in America.)
Mattilaus
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Everybody wants the cap to keep going up, but then they complain when ticket prices increase. The NHL is still largely driven by gate revenue due to bad TV deals. Want the cap to keep increasing so your team can afford their young stars? Well.....
Aladyyn
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Don't go then.
Czechboy
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They should think a bit about the local people if the idea is to bring the NHL to a country where it isn't available every week. The NHL doesn't care about its fans, it cares about their money. There'll be people who'll pay these prices to see a pointless regular season game and it'll probably be plenty of people (because it's easy to fly into Prague from other cities in Europe) there but it's not the way to grow the game. The NHL isn't about growing the game though. They just pretend they do and like all capitalists take out huge chunks of money for themselves.
He's right and even if he doesn't go someone else will because of how easy it's to get to Prague from other European cities. The game should be for everyone, not for a selected few.
This is why the atmosphere sucks at these games.
It is aunique event in Prague.
The other 998 games are played in north America.
My eldest will be going. He was going to be in Prague with his bestie to see his bestie's GF and so he's taking them to their first ever NHL game there. It's going to be a high bar to get over for usual NA games for them now too.
Czechboy
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I've actually reached the age where I have no interest in parking, driving, paying 12 bucks a beer etc. I prefer the games at home and arguing with the fine posters on HF.lolMy eldest will be going. He was going to be in Prague with his bestie to see his bestie's GF and so he's taking them to their first ever NHL game there. It's going to be a high bar to get over for usual NA games for them now too.
However, I may be able to see Czechs vs Kazakhistan in Ottawa this year at the U20's! Something tells me those tickets will be cheap.. I may be the only fan in attendance.lol
I don't think they will be driving, but I do understand. When I had seasons, I luckily worked a few blocks from the arena and on days when I was WFH, I could take the light rail downtown easily (it was how I got to work too).
I'm excited for him to be going. We talked about it in the spring and I'm impressed that he's pulled it together. I on the other hand will continue to be struggling to pay my bills which means less time to argue with the fine posters on HF.
ITT: I learned communists are to blame for overpriced NHL tickets in Europe
DaveG
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I mean, not wrong on why the ticket prices are where they are, but they're most certainly banking on merch. They're likely banking on Prague being a major destination for NA fans and rich types that are fans of the league which... not wrong.
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Don’t spend big bucks buy nose bleeds and pick your spot after
Season ticket wise I personally don't mind missing out on 1 home game, there really are too many. I wish they would take the pre-season games and play them all at the AHL arenas. I hate paying for those games.
Looking at this chart my seats are actually the same price as they would be for the 2 games vs the Rangers since the Devils use variable pricing and those are the two most expensive games.
Here's a valid comparable for you all:
In a couple of weeks from now, Manchester City will be visiting my city to play a Champions League game. It's the world's wealthiest football club: its roster is worth over $ 1 billion (!). Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews would be poor relatives on that team. Both the Buffalo Sabres and the New Jersey Devils are absolute midgets compared to Manchester City. You can't get a better opponent than this.
And the ticket prices here? Double-digits in euros for most seats, so that regular football fans could afford them. Sold out immediately, and it would have sold out at higher prices, too, but that's just not how things are done here in Europe. It's an outrage that the NHL charges triple-digit prices in euros for some humdrum regular season games.
In a couple of weeks from now, Manchester City will be visiting my city to play a Champions League game. It's the world's wealthiest football club: its roster is worth over $ 1 billion (!). Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews would be poor relatives on that team. Both the Buffalo Sabres and the New Jersey Devils are absolute midgets compared to Manchester City. You can't get a better opponent than this.
And the ticket prices here? Double-digits in euros for most seats, so that regular football fans could afford them. Sold out immediately, and it would have sold out at higher prices, too, but that's just not how things are done here in Europe. It's an outrage that the NHL charges triple-digit prices in euros for some humdrum regular season games.
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Is hockey more popular in Prague than soccer is in Bratislava? Genuinely curious.Here's a valid comparable for you all:
In a couple of weeks from now, Manchester City will be visiting my city to play a Champions League game. It's the world's wealthiest football club: its roster is worth over $ 1 billion (!). Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews would be poor relatives on that team. Both the Buffalo Sabres and the New Jersey Devils are absolute midgets compared to Manchester City. You can't get a better opponent than this.
And the ticket prices here? Double-digits in euros for most seats, so that regular football fans could afford them. Sold out immediately, and it would have sold out at higher prices, too, but that's just not how things are done here in Europe. It's an outrage that the NHL charges triple-digit prices in euros for some humdrum regular season games.
I'm guessing Prague has a larger population of wealthy folks? It's like 3x the size and their hockey arena seats 5k less than Bratislava's stadium.
Those factors, plus the fact that the NHL visiting to play games is probably more rare than major Champions league games, all likely contribute to a higher price for the hockey ticket.
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Nope. Both countries are the same in this regard.
Prague is larger and incomes in Czechia are higher than in Slovakia, but not radically higher. (They are radically higher in Western Europe, Scandinavia, and North America.)
Absolutely not!
It's the first time in Champions League history that my team, Slovan, has qualified for it. We just got thrashed 5-1 in Glasgow last night, and we'll undoubtedly get thrashed by Manchester City in two weeks' time on home turf as well. It's gonna be the wealthiest football club against the poorest in this season's Champions League. Our roster is worth € 21 million, and theirs is € 1.27 billion. What can you do? 
Sparta Prague, too, is playing in the Champions League this season for the first time in 19 years. The tickets for their games are actually a bit cheaper than for Slovan's games (or so I heard).
These are extremely rare and highly prestigious sporting events, yet still reasonably priced for regular sports fans. Not cheap by any means, but not overly expensive, unlike this absurd pair of NHL games in Prague.
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Tage Thompson is a zero whose name should never occur in the same sentence with Gretzky's, and you know squat about European hockey.
Exactly. In a country with incomparably higher incomes.
You mean business sense. Hate to break it to you, but here in Europe we still like to look at sports primarily from the perspective of sports, not business. If your main goal in life is to make loads of money, do business – don't meddle in sports.
I'm an NHL fan, but I'm saying: keep it on your shores, no need to bring it over here as an overpriced circus for the select rich and crowds of foreign tourists.
1) Tage rules.
2) ..you don’t seem to get how American economic imperialism works. Which I’m honestly jealous of, but ya, telling a US business to keep their bullshit in their backyard.. too late, bud. I don’t disagree with your outrage, it’s just how it is- some yokel with more money and fewer shits to give will pay more, and that’s all the system cares about.
