If that's true, it makes me wonder why they keep coming back. Does Stacey get paid, or do they hoof her out the door before the opening faceoff?
I bet they would've been happy if you'd flown them down and put them up for a week at an all-inclusive. You only get married once (or so)!Damn, Hoosli's an option for weddings?! You make me wish I hadn't ran away to Mexico to do the deed
Also very crappy of TNSE not to do more for them. I mean, they were freaking amazing. Plus not a great way to inspire people to want to come back to sing the anthem
I bet they would've been happy if you'd flown them down and put them up for a week at an all-inclusive. You only get married once (or so)!
Yes that is a great question. Why did the NHL decide that Winnipeg with it's 15,300 seat arena, could make it a go long term with the increasingly high salary cap? I don't know.
I'll agree it won't last long term unless enough people are willing to pay the price of supporting a professional sports team in the modern era. It won't be cheap, but everyone should have known that back in May 2011. I for one will be a ST holder until the day I die or the team moves. When we got the team back I vowed I'd do whatever I could to ensure they never left again. Back when we lost version 1.0 there wasn't much I could do to help keep the team. I was early in my career, had just bought a house and was being crushed by a mountain of student loan debt. For people in that position I understand the cost of supporting a NHL team is unfathomable. I don't understand the need to complain about it constantly, but I understand that financially it is impossible.
I think they are in it for the long haul. True North's business plan also includes considerable real estate investments, which also hinge on the draw of an NHL team in downtown Winnipeg. They certainly knew that there were a finite number of seats and a finite price point where they could sell a ticket.
The team may sell a few more face value tickets for Friday night games against Original 6 teams, but not many people are ponying up face value for Tuesday night games against the Panthers. So if the base drops to 12,000 or 10,000, the Jets will have to move thousands of largely undesirable tickets every night. They do not want that.
Well, as often happens in these situations, the needs being catered to just switch from one small group of a few to a different small group of a few.
Perhaps @KingBogo can pay everyone's 5% increase over the next three years.
Interesting idea and I mostly agree and some of this is where I was going with some earlier posts. I don't think TNSE minds at all weeding out some current ST holders. I think they would like to open up opportunity for those on the wait list who are better suited to be long term stable ST holders. During the initial frenzy a lot of people bought into ST that were ill suited for the long term for any variety of reasons. Didn't have the time, didn't have the financial resources etc. Earlier I mentioned a retired friend of mine who is very well suited to be a ST holder who was just getting offered tickets after 8 years on the waiting list. He will get 2 seats and barely look at the invoice. On top of a pension he runs a lucrative consulting business and his wife is a very highly paid professional. He will go to about half the games and give away tickets to the other half of games to people who would not otherwise go either through business connections, boards he sits on etc. Many of this tickets would end up in the hands of underprivileged kids due to the nature of his work so he doesn't contribute to the flooding of the secondary market. This type of ST holder is much preferable to someone who is uncomfortable with the financial commitment no matter what the reasons.
