GDT: ECF Game 1: Panthers @ Hurricanes | 8:00 p.m. on TNT

[A Star is Burns]

Nice video....but.....IMO, disappointing ticket sales. Resellers aside, Dundon's 3rd round price points seem to have missed the market:

As of 1PM, over 1,300 tickets available (as it stands, brokers/ individual resellers are going to take a big loss):

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From the ESPN article.. did I miss some breaking news? A playoff trade deadline?

"Teravainen was an active participant in the Hurricanes' morning skate ahead of Thursday's Game 1 against the Florida Panthers. He took line rushes with center Eric Staal and winger Martin Necas."

Eric needs a Snickers.

 

[hockeynjune]

Tailgate assault vehicle

Bojangles got

Tunes tuned

Cooler loaded

 

[zman77]

Jaccob Slavin is a very under rated NHLer!!
He makes everyone around him a better player.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Hey, it's only taken Dom a million years to realize that Slavin is the best defenseman in the league.

Maybe he should consider reworking his model. Again.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

What if it wasn’t a thumbs up and his thumb is just stuck that way because he’s not fully healed?

I’m unbelievably excited for tonight. I think I’m officially a Caniac now.

 

[hockey diva]

Good luck y'all! I'll be cheering from Music City.

 

[Tryamw]

Hey, it's only taken Dom a million years to realize that Slavin is the best defenseman in the league.

Maybe he should consider reworking his model. Again.

Too much work

 

[Svechhammer]

At least ESPN is consistent with their bias against us

 

[Bunch of Jurcos]

Jaccob Slavin is a very under rated NHLer!!
He makes everyone around him a better player.

So the answer is so obvious I don't know how no one thought of it, we clone Jaccob Slavin. Since we're in the playoffs, salary cap doesn't count against us and since he was part of Jaccob, technically they were on the roster at the trade deadline. I'm going to science our way to a Cup baby.

 

[A Star is Burns]

At least ESPN is consistent with their bias against us

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Did they add a bunch after or did you really just crop this not to show the rest of the picks? They have Panthers with 13 picks and Canes with 12.

 

[ndp]

This is going to be a board battle for the ages. I think one difference is that FL likes to get pucks directly to the front of the net where their more physical guys like Tkachuk can do their thing, vs the Canes kicking back out to the point and letting the defense create opportunities in the o-zone.

FL doesn’t have the horses on the backend to run their offense like CAR does and if CAR can limit those front of the net opportunities from FL I really like their chances this series. It’s going to be all about winning board battles and clogging up those passing lanes. They’re going to have to handle FL’s physicality and find a way to get Bob rattled, which I’m sure they’re ready for.



And keep that all world PK going.



This should be a damn good series.

 

[Svechhammer]

Did they add a bunch after or did you really just crop this not to show the rest of the picks? They have Panthers with 13 picks and Canes with 12.

I had it sent to me and did f*** all additional research on it

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

I'd like to think of everything past this point as a bonus to a great season. But it's hard to stay in that mindset when we're so close.

Florida might be the best on-paper team left in the playoffs, as long as Bob is hot. People shit on Maurice but I think he's a good coach, especially in the playoffs. This will be a really tough series from the get-go.

It’s a big deal. Unlike the last runs (‘09, ‘19), it doesn’t feel like we should just be happy to be here. We’re real players at the table. If we were fully healthy we’d be the unquestioned favorite remaining. Even now, we have as good a chance as anyone. These runs don’t happen often and we’ve gotta cash in regardless of injury status. So I’m with you. We’re not playing with house money here. This is the (beginning of) the window, and we’ve gotta make it happen.

 

[stevewin]

I'm most excited to attend the game to be able to one day tell my grandchildren I once saw historic playoff legend Jordan Martinook play live in ECF

 

[Svechhammer]

No house money. This is our time, and now it's time to go out and prove it.

 

[Svechhammer]

JStew on the siren tonight

 

[tarheelhockey]

Nice video....but.....IMO, disappointing ticket sales. Resellers aside, Dundon's 3rd round price points seem to have missed the market:

As of 1PM, over 1,300 tickets available (as it stands, brokers/ individual resellers are going to take a big loss):

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I had an extra ticket for tonight. Tried to sell it on Stubhub, no takers. So I went over to the dark side and put it up for sale on Ticketmaster. Bearing in mind that this is a Conference Finals ticket being sold on gameday and I paid STM prices for the ticket, I ended up making a $9 profit. Nine dollars.

The tickets are really damned expensive for this market, and Ticketmaster makes it way worse. If they were looking for the point at which the market can’t bear any more increases, they found it.

 

[Svechhammer]

I had an extra ticket for tonight. Tried to sell it on Stubhub, no takers. So I went over to the dark side and put it up for sale on Ticketmaster. Bearing in mind that this is a Conference Finals ticket being sold on gameday and I paid STM prices for the ticket, I ended up making a $9 profit. Nine dollars.

The tickets are really damned expensive for this market, and Ticketmaster makes it way worse. If they were looking for the point at which the market can’t bear any more increases, they found it.

f*** ticketmaster. My own ticket rep has advised me to never look to resell on that app, because their own analytics say that secondary market is dead due to excess fees.

 

[chaz4hockey]

I had an extra ticket for tonight. Tried to sell it on Stubhub, no takers. So I went over to the dark side and put it up for sale on Ticketmaster. Bearing in mind that this is a Conference Finals ticket being sold on gameday and I paid STM prices for the ticket, I ended up making a $9 profit. Nine dollars.

The tickets are really damned expensive for this market, and Ticketmaster makes it way worse. If they were looking for the point at which the market can’t bear any more increases, they found it.

They’ve sold some since 1pm due to lowering the price via dynamic pricing (I also understand that students with a .edu email can purchase for $100).

That helps (although probably not as many University students still hanging around the triangle) but there are still a bunch of “cane direct” tickets left let alone resales (which also have come down in price).

If you want to go, head to the stadium & wait until around 6 and buy then.

Re: Ticketmaster-I’m a free market guy but when monopolistic pricing occurs I vote for Government intervention. They need to be reined in.

 

[HydratedByStormBrew]

Bojangles for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 7 parking lot brawls and a cheerwine later, I am ready for tonight.

 

[Sigurd]

I’m unbelievably excited for tonight. I think I’m officially a Caniac now.

 

[tarheelhockey]

f*** ticketmaster. My own ticket rep has advised me to never look to resell on that app, because their own analytics say that secondary market is dead due to excess fees.

That’s a huge part of it. Say I have an $85 ticket (which is what the cheapest seats are right now), I also have to pay taxes on that which comes to $91 and change. Say I go to sell that on Ticketmaster for $100, they’re going to take $10 of fees out of the the sale. I end up with -$1 on a ticket that went up in value by $15.


People that have never resold a ticket before… read that paragraph again. My ticket increased in value by nearly 20%, and I lost money between taxes and Ticketmaster fees.

Meanwhile, some guy comes along to buy my ticket. He’s paying $100 for the ticket, $7 in taxes, $11 in service fees, and a $5 processing free for a total of $124.

So the buyer is paying $124 for an $85 (or generously $91) ticket… but none of that extra $41 went to the reseller. In the series of transactions, the buyers paid $17 in taxes and Ticketmaster pocketed $26.

You want to know why there are empty seats at playoff games, this is why. It will be called a sellout because the tickets were actually sold to somebody, but they remain empty because there’s no resale market whatsoever at these price points. It’s not the scalpers that are the issue here, it’s Ticketmaster acting like a scalper while having (by their own measure) only $5 worth of actual investment in the process.

Congress should have broken up this bullshit a long time ago. TM is the most blatantly anti-competitive, anti-consumer entity since the big cable companies.

 

[zman77]

So the answer is so obvious I don't know how no one thought of it, we clone Jaccob Slavin. Since we're in the playoffs, salary cap doesn't count against us and since he was part of Jaccob, technically they were on the roster at the trade deadline. I'm going to science our way to a Cup baby.

Here's a question for our group.
Would any one of McDavid, Marner, Matthews or Nylander be an asset
to the 'Canes winning a Cup 'cause of Slavin and Company?
In other words, if Jaccob was playing for the Oilers or the Leafs would they
still be in the running for a Stanley Cup?

 

[tarheelhockey]

If you want to go, head to the stadium & wait until around 6 and buy then.

Good advice here folks. Prices are falling fast.

 

[zman77]