ECHL to Richmond
- Thread starter Barclay Donaldson
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CANADIENSFAN90
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Why not fphl standards are lowMy reaction if you are being sarcastic:
My reaction if you are being serious:
Barclay Donaldson
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I only respond to idiotic, nonsensical, and completely irrational suggestions if they have proper grammar and punctuation.
CANADIENSFAN90
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How many crappy places have the fphl been in they will put a team anywhere
Barclay Donaldson
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This is about the possibility of the ECHL going to Richmond. What does the franchise history of the Fed have to do with the OP?
CANADIENSFAN90
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They are building this a mile from my house, hopefully I can have a safe ECHL experience with plenty of fun.What’s next for Henrico’s GreenCity?
JMCx4
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Oh, yeah, just what a new (or relocated) ECHL franchise needs ... "a 17,000-seat arena."
Orlando plays in one, likely with the upper bowl curtained off.Oh, yeah, just what a new (or relocated) ECHL franchise needs ... "a 17,000-seat arena."
JMCx4
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Yes, Amway Center upper deck seats are curtained off for OSB games. As they are @ BOK Center-Tulsa. But both are make-do ECHL hosting arenas, so I guess a wishful GreenCity-Richmond ECHL franchise could join the make-do club as well.
ETA: Add Heritage Bank Arena in Cincinnati to that elite group. But I think they skipped the curtains & simply block access to upper tier seating sections.
CrazyEddie20
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Oh, yeah, just what a new (or relocated) ECHL franchise needs ... "a 17,000-seat arena."
A large arena does not necessarily mean unfavorable lease terms or bad attendance. If you have an arena manager that wants the dates filled (as they should, if they're competent - obviously, not all arena managers are...) and is willing to work with a team to come up with a good deal, the size of the arena matters less than the team and the arena's ability to market the games and provide a good fan experience.
It's when you have arena managers that charge ridiculous rents and pull dirty tricks (for example, not downloading the information from a ticket scanner or two to keep attendance below a certain threshold - and yes, that does happen a lot) that teams have difficulty, and that can happen in places like the Amway Center or the Cambria County War Memorial just the same.
JMCx4
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So maybe THAT'S why me 'n' the missus never encountered anybody scanning tickets when we attended a Ghost Pirates game last weekend.
CrazyEddie20
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So maybe THAT'S why me 'n' the missus never encountered anybody scanning tickets when we attended a Ghost Pirates game last weekend.
It's possible. It's an easy way for the arena operator to depress the drop count to get more money out of the team. Happens fairly regularly in the arena/concert business.
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CrazyEddie20
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The first pro game I appeared in was at the Richmond Coliseum against the ECHL Renegades. Those were the days...
JMCx4
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JMCx4
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Is this another trivia question, or an episode of What's My Line?
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GindyDraws
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Man, they had an entire plan but voters didn't want it. I'm just waiting for them to finally bulldoze the ugly thing and put up government buildings, just don't know what's taking so long.
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Yeah the whole navy hill fiasco was a shame. ECHL was practically guaranteed to come to Richmond if it had been successful.
Atlantian
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Not just practically. Didn't the ECHL grant them an expansion franchise on the contingency that the resolution passed?
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