They do try to do that in Ottawa now as well. We had a very bad incident and my wife was absolutely livid. She won’t go back because of it. It was really bad.
Now they have General Admission tickets as part of a promotion on the lower side. If you like to sit low on the ends, you are screwed. I’d be forced to sit high in the middle which is fine but I prefer Aisle seats and there were never any of those available when I originally had to move my seats. That kickstarted everything. It was a nightmare for around 3 seasons. Watching people continually be pushed out of their seats was maddening. Those people would never come back leaving them more reliant on the clown show ticket sales.
Post Jeff Hunt 67’s OSEG has been a joke. Their focus is on the RedBlacks. They use grade one marketing strategies. They ignore the people that actually fuel secondary sales. I’m the guy that spends thousands in the restaurants before/after games, buys other in game stuff etc. Guys like us are inconsequential to their marketing. They bitch and whine about having to alter the schedule to not adversely affect the restaurants on game days. Yet, it is guys like me that are the ones that frequent them. Do you think he families are going to those places before or after games? No. Yet, they whine about lack of synergy at Lansdowne BECAUSE they focus on the lowest common denominator ticket sale that doesn’t fuel any secondary sales. They are a rinky dink marketing group. Very poorly run. It is a good thing they have strong hockey operations. If their hockey ops were run like their marketing/sales group, they’d be battling the Ice Dogs.
Having inhabited TD placw ehen it was teh civic center and understanding things there as well as looking at the KROCK.
I will say tht both of themhave a lot to be desired. However, there is more good at the civic center.
Yeah, the kids are a pain in the assets. Riley from the start had to have a handler due to the kids and the inability or desire of the ushers to assist.
The kids majority of hockey team kids are more interested in playing with their friends than in the game.
Parents are there only because it is a team outing and they have to be there to a pay for the ticket and "chaperone".
AS to the local restaurants it is interesting and while I can understand that they may have a loss as most families eat before they go to the game or go to Rotten Ronnies they were aware before they signed the lease that this was in fact gong to be an issue.
As to the KROCK (I know the name has changed but has the buliding) The set up sucks. One of the things that I ejoyed was going around to meet other people and having talks at gboth arenas. The KROCK stopped that.
While the original purpose of the Civic Centre was a home for jr hockey the city then morphed it to other things and then just let it go to crap.
The same to a certain extent can be said forhte M Centre.
Now the new arenas are built for other events. They city and owners knew that neither team could fund the buildings Jr hockey is a necessary evil that they need to bring in a pay check but also because they are part of the property.
OSEG saw dollar signs in developing Lansdowne park but the down side was tht they needed to keep the arena and the football field in order to get the deal done with the city.
Kington got the deal because of all the supposed business that it would bring to downtown hotels and bars. LOL
Neiother really had anything to do with Junior hockey and I really think that if they could sell the teams and move them away without a lot of outside noise they probably would. IN BOTH CITIES
I think they’ll try and push for 6 but whenever that falls apart they’ll do just that. Except they need to lock up 7. If they play Sudbury/north bay in playoffs they might get swept. Need to play brantford/Ottawa/Oshawa for the best chance of winning
Naw I think you can be happy with 7th and get ready.
