HFDevils Official Tickets and Prudential Center thread

[Louskoolaid89]

I didn't buy anything but the lines for concessions last night looked really long and slow. With the prices of things I'll never buy anything but anyone have any reports on the quality?

Hmmm. They were hyping up that the lines wouldn't be long. Working out the kinks I guess. They should have an ordering Kios like most of your fast food restaurants now offer.

 

[D3vilsH0ck3y]

Looking for 3 Lowers tonight if anyone wants to sell

 

[Unknown Caller]

Interesting. When I worked for the Jets in 2011 and 2012 it was all-inclusive and called the 50-Yard Line Club. I was able to sneak wristbands to friends/family on occasion

At least for the Giants, the “club” on the away sideline was never all-inclusive or anything like that. The coaches club on the home sideline was always and still is all-inclusive.

My stadium series tickets indicate that they have coaches club access, so I’m assuming the usual club on the home sideline will be open.

 

[My3Sons]

At least for the Giants, the “club” on the away sideline was never all-inclusive or anything like that. The coaches club on the home sideline was always and still is all-inclusive.

My stadium series tickets indicate that they have coaches club access, so I’m assuming the usual club on the home sideline will be open.

Do the Giants have a vomitorium access club?

 

[Andre Palot]

Hmmm. They were hyping up that the lines wouldn't be long. Working out the kinks I guess. They should have an ordering Kios like most of your fast food restaurants now offer.

More digitization of everything. *shakes cane*

 

[Unknown Caller]

Do the Giants have a vomitorium access club?

You don’t need one when everyone leaves by halftime.

 

[Sarge18]

Some random notes from the first two home games....

The concession choices are laughable, hardly any choices anywhere so far. Every stand seemed to have maybe two or three choices. I just don't understand how this place can get concessions wrong year after year while pretty much every other venue in the country is light years better. The only thing I bought was popcorn on opening night and that was the best it's been in years. It had actual flavor and was freshly popped.

Last night I splurged and sat in the restaurant because of a ticket price I couldn't say no to. We were informed at the bar there that it's no longer the Yuengling sponsored restaurant and not only that, the arena dropped ALL Yuengling beer altogether and whatever is left in the arena is all they have. They've also dropped Coors. I also noticed the Heineken deck over 107 is gone. They did have a few draft beers at the restaurant as well as smaller 16 oz. bottles of Miller Lite for the low price of $11. The restaurant food was completely underwhelming and the selection was terrible in my opinion. You had a station of salads, one guy carving what they called ribeye that was edible but practically raw, and I'm a medium rare guy, some pasta, rice balls, the usual hot dogs, leftover chicken fingers from last year that they mixed in with the new ones, but they were all really dry and overcooked, and sliders that were an improvement over the past ones. There was a tiny assortment of Calandra desserts that were all awesome and pre-made ice cream cups they couldn't keep stocked. They also have a menu you can order from and I saw some pizzas being made that were a crime against humanity. The wings I saw people getting looked decent. The entire area was pretty disorganized. They had nothing but squeeze bottles of ketchup and mustard for the chicken fingers. In all, if I paid for a full season there I'd be ridiculously disappointed.

 

[NJDevs26]

Yeah the food thing is no skin off my nose since I'm not eating there anyway but I also couldn't help but notice the lack of variety and choices. They probably used their all their vendor money on that downstairs bar lol

Might as well have given us a food and beverage credit since with those prices we'd only be able to use it on five or six things regardless.

 

[HellOnIce]

What's weird is they are selling/promoting this NEW chicken finger but it's only at certain sections with huge ass lines, and other kiosks selling chicken fingers are like basic chicken fingers, not the promoted ones. How can you sell two different kinds, its' weird. I get that Booze makes money, but it's so annoying when lines are massive - and there are two booze stations open that are empty b/c how many people are buying cocktails? I've never seen someone with a cocktail in their hand.

 

[Satans Hockey]

This is all I want and there should be a protest by everyone not to buy anything until it happens. $5+ for a bottle of water is a disgrace.

I'm so jealous of what Atlanta has done...

ATL Fan Fare Menu | Food and Beverage at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA

| Menu of Food and Beverage options for ATL Fan Fare at Mercedes-Benz Stadium

www.mercedesbenzstadium.com

 

[HellOnIce]

This is all I want and there should be a protest by everyone not to buy anything until it happens. $5+ for a bottle of water is a disgrace.

I'm so jealous of what Atlanta has done...

ATL Fan Fare Menu | Food and Beverage at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA

| Menu of Food and Beverage options for ATL Fan Fare at Mercedes-Benz Stadium

www.mercedesbenzstadium.com

I think a bottle of soda is now like $7, a plain ass hot dog the other night was $7.50 I think. The food just isn't good enough to warrant these prices. If it was interesting, sure some extra bucks sure

 

[Louskoolaid89]

Some random notes from the first two home games....

The concession choices are laughable, hardly any choices anywhere so far. Every stand seemed to have maybe two or three choices. I just don't understand how this place can get concessions wrong year after year while pretty much every other venue in the country is light years better. The only thing I bought was popcorn on opening night and that was the best it's been in years. It had actual flavor and was freshly popped.

Last night I splurged and sat in the restaurant because of a ticket price I couldn't say no to. We were informed at the bar there that it's no longer the Yuengling sponsored restaurant and not only that, the arena dropped ALL Yuengling beer altogether and whatever is left in the arena is all they have. They've also dropped Coors. I also noticed the Heineken deck over 107 is gone. They did have a few draft beers at the restaurant as well as smaller 16 oz. bottles of Miller Lite for the low price of $11. The restaurant food was completely underwhelming and the selection was terrible in my opinion. You had a station of salads, one guy carving what they called ribeye that was edible but practically raw, and I'm a medium rare guy, some pasta, rice balls, the usual hot dogs, leftover chicken fingers from last year that they mixed in with the new ones, but they were all really dry and overcooked, and sliders that were an improvement over the past ones. There was a tiny assortment of Calandra desserts that were all awesome and pre-made ice cream cups they couldn't keep stocked. They also have a menu you can order from and I saw some pizzas being made that were a crime against humanity. The wings I saw people getting looked decent. The entire area was pretty disorganized. They had nothing but squeeze bottles of ketchup and mustard for the chicken fingers. In all, if I paid for a full season there I'd be ridiculously disappointed.

Spot on I'm changing my personal eating habits but, still the variety wasn't much of a variety. Like a big step backwards.

 

[peterrod16]

Prudential Lounge Review
I treated my wife to ice level seats on Friday vs Arizona in Section 21 Row 2 that had include prudential Lounge access. I was told we will have access to the former fire and ice Lounges.
The food in the Pru Lounge was similar to the club seating food. I enjoyed the beef and ziti with meat. Non alcoholic drinks are at the bar while water bottles were in a fridge. Our seats allowed us to go through the tunnel to our seats. Please note at the 3 minute mark during intermission tunnel access is closed. It will open once the new period is over.
The positive was access to the bathrooms in the lounge and in the tunnel(its a plus in my wife eyes). At 2nd period intermission I visited the club Lounge behind section 18. I was able to get pat lafrieda sliders, fries and chicken fingers. That food was fresh and good. Overall we had a good experience. My tips are arrive early. Visit the pru lounge early and during 1st intermssion. 2nd intermssion go to the club lounge. The pru Lounge is very new and hopefully they will at some devils items in the room. Enjoy.

 

[NjDevsRR]

Prudential Lounge Review
I treated my wife to ice level seats on Friday vs Arizona in Section 21 Row 2 that had include prudential Lounge access. I was told we will have access to the former fire and ice Lounges.
The food in the Pru Lounge was similar to the club seating food. I enjoyed the beef and ziti with meat. Non alcoholic drinks are at the bar while water bottles were in a fridge. Our seats allowed us to go through the tunnel to our seats. Please note at the 3 minute mark during intermission tunnel access is closed. It will open once the new period is over.
The positive was access to the bathrooms in the lounge and in the tunnel(its a plus in my wife eyes). At 2nd period intermission I visited the club Lounge behind section 18. I was able to get pat lafrieda sliders, fries and chicken fingers. That food was fresh and good. Overall we had a good experience. My tips are arrive early. Visit the pru lounge early and during 1st intermssion. 2nd intermssion go to the club lounge. The pru Lounge is very new and hopefully they will at some devils items in the room. Enjoy.

So as someone who chose this as a perk who has tickets in the 100s, I’d have to go up and down? I thought it had seating haha oops.

 

[Better Call Sal]

Anyone attend the autograph event today? Consensus seems to be that it was a nightmare

 

[NJDevs26]

Anyone attend the autograph event today? Consensus seems to be that it was a nightmare

Oh boy…I forgot about it entirely until just now but tbh after going to games Thursday/Friday and being at a friend’s wedding last night I was likely taking a pass anyway.

 

[My3Sons]

Oh boy…I forgot about it entirely until just now but tbh after going to games Thursday/Friday and being at a friend’s wedding last night I was likely taking a pass anyway.

Spelling?

 

[peterrod16]

So as someone who chose this as a perk who has tickets in the 100s, I’d have to go up and down? I thought it had seating haha oops.

A tip would be eat at the pru lounge before the game. Once you get hungry again walk into the club lounges.

 

[Colin226]

Anyone attend the autograph event today? Consensus seems to be that it was a nightmare

I think people go to those events with the wrong expectations. I feel like the complaints I see online, and have seen in years past, are all people who expected to get autographs from all of the big-name players they wanted. It's just not feasible to do given the limited amount of time that the players are signing for. And I certainly don't want our players signing for longer than they currently do, because it's got to be very tiring and tedious. Plus, even though they have signs everywhere saying "No pictures!", which is there to help the lines move quicker, there's always a set of entitled people who ask for photos anyway. And the players typically do it so they don't look bad.

I saw someone post that they divided their family up into multiple different player lines, and so they did get most of the big name players they wanted. But if you're only 1 or 2 people, and you want Jack, Nico, Timo, Dougie, Luke, etc., it's not feasible to get nor reasonable to expect that you should get all of them. You have to pick one big-name player and then a couple "ancillary" guys.

 

[Better Call Sal]

I think people go to those events with the wrong expectations. I feel like the complaints I see online, and have seen in years past, are all people who expected to get autographs from all of the big-name players they wanted. It's just not feasible to do given the limited amount of time that the players are signing for. And I certainly don't want our players signing for longer than they currently do, because it's got to be very tiring and tedious. Plus, even though they have signs everywhere saying "No pictures!", which is there to help the lines move quicker, there's always a set of entitled people who ask for photos anyway. And the players typically do it so they don't look bad.

I saw someone post that they divided their family up into multiple different player lines, and so they did get most of the big name players they wanted. But if you're only 1 or 2 people, and you want Jack, Nico, Timo, Dougie, Luke, etc., it's not feasible to get nor reasonable to expect that you should get all of them. You have to pick one big-name player and then a couple "ancillary" guys.

You're pretty much right. Though I will say, the event at CAA was handled in a way that made it seem achievable to an extent because they did the skate with the team at the same time. Now granted, half the team would be on the ice so you'd only have 50 minutes or so to try and get that half before they would switch. But I felt like it was organized better back then. Or I could be nostalgic about it because it was a big deal as a kid.

I went to the one in 21-22 and thought it was organized as well as could be given COVID restrictions were still somewhat in place and they basically had the players roped away at a distance like zoo animals so you couldn't get too close to them.

 

[TonySoprano]

A tip would be eat at the pru lounge before the game. Once you get hungry again walk into the club lounges.

Do we have club lounge access if our ticket says "prudential lounge"

 

[Satans Hockey]

I think people go to those events with the wrong expectations. I feel like the complaints I see online, and have seen in years past, are all people who expected to get autographs from all of the big-name players they wanted. It's just not feasible to do given the limited amount of time that the players are signing for. And I certainly don't want our players signing for longer than they currently do, because it's got to be very tiring and tedious. Plus, even though they have signs everywhere saying "No pictures!", which is there to help the lines move quicker, there's always a set of entitled people who ask for photos anyway. And the players typically do it so they don't look bad.

I saw someone post that they divided their family up into multiple different player lines, and so they did get most of the big name players they wanted. But if you're only 1 or 2 people, and you want Jack, Nico, Timo, Dougie, Luke, etc., it's not feasible to get nor reasonable to expect that you should get all of them. You have to pick one big-name player and then a couple "ancillary" guys.

I could handle it better than them by doing 4 simple things and I don't even go to these things cause I don't care about autographs or meeting the guys.

I also expect to have higher standards because even the lowest season ticket is not cheap. These should be run well, these guys get paid millions of dollars and aren't doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. It's a laugh to say sitting there for 2 hours signing things is exhausting.

(1) You split the event into 2 or even 3 different sessions depending on how many season ticket holders we actually have. The season is long, it's not unreasonable to me to ask for a few 2 hour sessions from October to April.

(2) You have a bunch of tables put together so everyone is in the same spot. Guardrails go a few feet in front of the tables so there is no just walking around the arena. People enter from the tower near the box office, get on line, gets them a chance to see every single player and gives a chance for guys who don't normally have longer lines to get to meet more people. People exit through the tower near the Marty statue.

(3) No transfers of tickets, no selling of tickets. Everyone here knows I'm all for the power of the ticket holder for games but this is a special event. It should be only for people who have season tickets of some nature. There's no reason people should be allowed to attend these things if you aren't a member. It also would cut down on the amount people cause not everyone can go. Also this falls back to the 2-3 session thing, you let people pick a date and when that date is capped than you can only pick the other dates remaining. If you can't make any of the dates? Oh well.

(4) You don't book it on the same weekend when you know there is a charity walk that has been the same weekend for years and make it inconvenient for almost everyone because roads are closed.

The front office on the ticket side is run by goofs. I've said it for years and I stand by it. People have come and go over the years and they all manage to be equally mid. They all get paid to do these jobs and they are quite shit at it.

 

[Colin226]

I could handle it better than them by doing 4 simple things and I don't even go to these things cause I don't care about autographs or meeting the guys.

I also expect to have higher standards because even the lowest season ticket is not cheap. These should be run well, these guys get paid millions of dollars and aren't doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. It's a laugh to say sitting there for 2 hours signing things is exhausting.

(1) You split the event into 2 or even 3 different sessions depending on how many season ticket holders we actually have. The season is long, it's not unreasonable to me to ask for a few 2 hour sessions from October to April.

(2) You have a bunch of tables put together so everyone is in the same spot. Guardrails go a few feet in front of the tables so there is no just walking around the arena. People enter from the tower near the box office, get on line, gets them a chance to see every single player and gives a chance for guys who don't normally have longer lines to get to meet more people. People exit through the tower near the Marty statue.

(3) No transfers of tickets, no selling of tickets. Everyone here knows I'm all for the power of the ticket holder for games but this is a special event. It should be only for people who have season tickets of some nature. There's no reason people should be allowed to attend these things if you aren't a member. It also would cut down on the amount people cause not everyone can go. Also this falls back to the 2-3 session thing, you let people pick a date and when that date is capped than you can only pick the other dates remaining. If you can't make any of the dates? Oh well.

(4) You don't book it on the same weekend when you know there is a charity walk that has been the same weekend for years and make it inconvenient for almost everyone because roads are closed.

The front office on the ticket side is run by goofs. I've said it for years and I stand by it. People have come and go over the years and they all manage to be equally mid. They all get paid to do these jobs and they are quite shit at it.

I can agree with most of that. I'm an introvert so the idea of meeting hundreds of people in a short time does sound exhausting haha. I think the reason players don't do many paid public signings outside of these team events is because they just don't like doing them.

I definitely think they should do the event a few times given I've been unable to attend the last 5 or 6 years. It's annoying that they just pick a date and if you can't make it, welp there goes that benefit. They've cut a lot of the ancillary benefits already.

 

[peterrod16]

Do we have club lounge access if our ticket says "prudential lounge"

Yes you do. I visited the old fire lounge at the second period on Friday.

 

[JrFischer54]

somewhat off topic but has anyone been to the new isles rink? seeing how its the closest new rink to open wonder if they had anything cool/feature that would be nice to updated pru center?