Another very simple concept: Over 30% of the ACC is owned by small business and corporations, mostly lower bowl. These are mostly automatic renewals at increasing rates on a year over year basis. So, let's say only 15,000 seats left for the rest of us. 7 million people in the golden horseshoe alone, you can imagine how big the basic local fanbase will be, and, what percentage of them are naive supporters who have no concept of what is actually happening, and who could not give a ****, they just want to say they went to a leaf game. Will the suits boycott? no. Will these naive average surface supporters boycott? no, they don't care enough to. Will the ACC seats be filled out every night? yes. Why? Because suit/weakhand demand will always be 100x larger than supply, while the diehard boycotter is a large minority.
But, if we had more than one professional hockey team in the city things may change.. and MLSE obviously knows this. There is NOTHING we diehard fans can do about impacting their profit line, thanks to the every day idiot you run into the street who says, "oh well, better luck next year", or, investment banker who is paid to shmooze their overseas clients during the game.
When I worked for TD, the managing director of my trading division (born in NYC) had 8 corporate platinum tickets to the ACC, and, he was a Montreal fan somehow. He was absent to about 75% of games but refused to sell tickets because he was too busy and filthy rich. This actually did impact my decision to quit, which I did last May. **** him and **** TD.
we are a select few that see the real problem at hand.
