Is the WJC overpriced?

[Crosby2010]

Yes they are too expensive. Made much worse by the poor saps that bought tickets assuming Canada would be good enough to be in the gold medal game. Sure you expect that if you have that much money for hockey games then you can afford it, however what about the people that maybe took an entire year to save up for that package only to see quite possibly the worst Canadian team in WJC history.

 

[Golden_Jet]

For those listing the price paid , I’m assuming it’s Canadian dollars.

 

[tyhee]

I don't think most of us can relate to the early bird, all-session prices. Not many of us would be interested. I'm guessing the target market is NHL teams who wish to send scouts to games and those luxury buyers for whom price is pretty much irrelevant. For that market, maybe the price of an all-session ticket isn't unreasonable.

It will probably be easier to guess whether tickets are overpriced when smaller packages and single game tickets go on sale. Presumably they'll be priced to maximize total revenue which isn't necessarily the same as maximizing the number of seats sold, which will likely leave tickets for at least the more desirable games seeming overpriced to everybody except those 18,000 or so fans willing to pay the most for them.

 

[clevelandcane]

I'm not even upset at the price per game cost. For me, it's more the fact that I can't buy games ala cart. I want to buy a couple of days worth and that's it.

 

[Drake1588]

I'm not even upset at the price per game cost. For me, it's more the fact that I can't buy games ala cart. I want to buy a couple of days worth and that's it.

Indeed. Who in their right mind wants to pay to go to ~29 games over 11 days? Who has that kind of free time, especially into January?

Insisting that you subsidize the Kazakhstan-Bumf*** third-tier nation game, as that's the only way to go see the six/seven power teams, isn't cool.

They're banking on you not going to the bad games, but paying for them anyway so you can go to the premier games.

But they sell the tickets, in the end, so by definition it's not overpriced. It's priced to sell, evidently.

You always wonder if that will hold when it's not in Canada, but Minnesota will get both Canadian Prairie and diehard US college hockey fans. I expect them to do very well again.

 

[Chris Coutu]

I went to 6 games this year in Ottawa. Bought tickets same day on Ticketmaster . Paid $40-$50 for the non Canada games sat in 1st row of 2nd deck . For the 2 Canada games paid $130 and sat in 2nd row of 2nd deck…. Was pretty impressed. The hockey was good. Even Germany versus Latvia was entertaining. Beer at $15 was too much. Stayed in Carlton Place, 15 mins down the road for $200 a night.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

Hockey in Canada is a racket.

In other news, water is wet.

Apparently water is not actually wet. Or at least it’s a controversial subject in the scientific community

 

[daver]

It’s almost like, for being a horribly flawed system itself, the USSR’s alternate economic model kept the worst excesses of capitalism at bay. Its disappearance, and the rise of technology and monitoring capabilities coupled with a fracturing of social cohesion, have left us in a spot ripe for exploitation.

Anywho.. yes. That’s way too much.

Excess capitalism >> miserably unhappy populations and millions of deaths

 

[Fantomas]

I don't want to take this more off topic than it already is, but I would say it's less to do with that and more to do with the consolidation of all sectors into corporate controlled entities where the duty is to the shareholders rather than the communities they serve.

This is not mutually exclusive from what he wrote.

 

[TeamCanadaGoldChamps]

i went to 5 games, 4 at CTC (1 being Canada QF and 1 being gold medal game) and 1 at TD place.

round robin games at TD place were way overpriced, 50$ and up. non-canada games at CTC round robin were a great price, 25$ and up. QF game, yes i had to pay more, 150$. Gold medal game, i bought tickets the morning of the game for about 50$

before Canada lost QF, tickets were 400$ for semis and finals...

 

[MoneyManny]

I don’t really think so.

You could get full packages of the games at the Canadian Tire Centre for ~$1,000.00 in Ottawa this year (worst seats, though). That includes all Canada and USA games, plus medal rounds. Works out to under $100 per game.

It sucks that it’s that expensive for U20 hockey, but it’s a pretty popular tournament (at least in Canada). I don’t think it’s the worst price compared to other live sporting events.

It's extremely expensive for an amateur event where the main entertainers don't get a dime.

I know better than to fatten Hockey Canada's pockets, especially after all the scandals and the way they've been dealt with.