Winnipeg Attendance

[Love]

Why should people be expected to pay $250 to watch a hockey game they could watch for free at home when they can’t even pay their bills? The real wonder is why any of these games are sellouts

 

[Bondurant]

Another Winnipeg attendance thread? It's becoming the new "quietly".

 

[Galactico]

Lol why are people always saying that Winnipeg is a larger market than Quebec City? It is not. Quebec Metro population is higher that Winnipeg and is 2 hours away from Montreal. Winnipeg is in the middle of no where.

 

[tarheelhockey]

The Jets flirt with winning a round or two every season. From at least those who I talk to, from an entertainment point of view that doesn’t mean much. They trot out the same team every season, we all know how it will end.

That basically means they’re getting average results, if not a little above average.

Turning one’s nose up at playoff seasons is all fun and games until you experience a 500-game rebuild.

 

[TheNumber4]

Turn in your Canadian citizenship Winnipeg. Embarrassing.

 

[jokesondee]

True North sees bump in Winnipeg Jets season ticket sales

The Winnipeg Jets have started the 2024-25 season undefeated on the ice and have seen a bump in season ticket buyers off of it.

winnipeg.ctvnews.ca

Going in the right direction, nothing to see here.

Flames had 16242 last night in a 18400 arena, oh no! Where is their thread?!?
Redwings had 17510 last game in a 19515 arena, oh no! Where is their thread?!?
Sabres had 16644 last game in a 19070 arena, oh no! Where is their thread?!?

Enough already.

 

[TheDoldrums]

True North sees bump in Winnipeg Jets season ticket sales

The Winnipeg Jets have started the 2024-25 season undefeated on the ice and have seen a bump in season ticket buyers off of it.

winnipeg.ctvnews.ca

Going in the right direction, nothing to see here.

Flames had 16242 last night in a 18400 arena, oh no! Where is there thread?!?
Redwings had 17510 last game in a 19515 arena, oh no! Where is there thread?!?
Sabres had 16644 last game in a 19070 arena, oh no! Where is there thread?!?

Enough already.

There was a Red Wings attendance thread actually. For some reason it got closed tho.

 

[Voight]

It's absolutely tiring as f to keep reading some Canadians talk shit about Cali/southern US teams and their attendance with impunity. However I'm not that petty.
Winnipeg has a team, should have a team and it's hockey country. A few games doesn't change that.

Funny cause I've seen former Thrasher fans (as well as fans of other teams) post a bunch about Winnipegs low attendance numbers last season, like they cant get over the fact that they lost their team 13 years ago.

 

[Monkey D Luffy]

Boston lives rent free in our heads. TBL pays a heavily subsidized rate. Why is Winnipeg in Leaf heads?

On topic, for the record I'm not at all concerned that the Jets in any kind of financial or re-locating risk from what I read, and all the best to them, would never want to seem them leave. Love the playoff white-out, doesn't get old.

That's funny because when the Jets beat the Leafs and they made some throw away chirp in the dressing room after about beating the Leafs, Leafs fans were salty about it for at least a year.

 

[Sigh]

Considering the economy and the fact that the entire province of Manitoba has like 1.3M people, that doesn’t seem too bad.

 

[Monkey D Luffy]

Jets were second in the Western Conference last year and have made the playoffs 4/5 past seasons. That shouldn't be a hard sell for fans, they're right there in it.

What happens when it's their turn to go through a Sens-style rebuild where they make 0/5 last playoffs? Ottawa averaged something like 30% more attendance than the Jets last year in spite of that.

Tickets are middle of the pack pricing for Canadian teams.

Maybe Winnipeg just can't support a modern NHL franchise, I don't think you can blame pricing or the team's performance for lack of attendance.

Bro. It's very simple. The team started out with everyone and their dog racing to get season tickets and it was just your average middle class families for the most part (many of them shared). Very little in terms of corporate support. Contrast that with other big markets where at least half of the building is corporate.

Covid destroyed a huge number of the existing season ticket base.

 

[a mangy Meowth]

Yeah I personally don't give a shit if they never sold out another game. My team too.

Why are people on here always so worried about the pocketbooks of the owners?

 

[Mountlaine]

Maybe the audience doesn't like that the national anthem is sung in Punjabi these days

 

[Dr Pepper]

Maybe the audience doesn't like that the national anthem is sung in Punjabi these days

....No it isn't.

Do better.

 

[Tasteless Beaver]

Maybe the audience doesn't like that the national anthem is sung in Punjabi these days

 

[Masked]

True North sees bump in Winnipeg Jets season ticket sales

The Winnipeg Jets have started the 2024-25 season undefeated on the ice and have seen a bump in season ticket buyers off of it.

winnipeg.ctvnews.ca

Going in the right direction, nothing to see here.

Flames had 16242 last night in a 18400 arena, oh no! Where is their thread?!?
Redwings had 17510 last game in a 19515 arena, oh no! Where is their thread?!?
Sabres had 16644 last game in a 19070 arena, oh no! Where is their thread?!?

Enough already.

All of those teams would have been sold out and turning fans away if they had an arena the size of Winnipeg's. But Winnipeg couldn't sell out for a game against Connor Bedard or a division rival in Minnesota.

 

[Tasteless Beaver]

All of those teams would have been sold out and turning fans away if they had an arena the size of Winnipeg's. But Winnipeg couldn't sell out for a game against Connor Bedard or a division rival in Minnesota.

Bedard game: because 33,500 of our sports attending fans (and thousands more watching it on TV because it was sold out) were on the other side of the city watching a Bomber game hoping they would clinch the division.

Minnesota game: because it was f***ing thanksgiving dinner. Take your low effort, low intelligence trolling elsewhere. We could make jokes about Ottawa only selling out because the other team’s fans pack the arena, but we don’t.

 

[VivaLasVegas]

Yeah I personally don't give a shit if they never sold out another game. My team too.

Why are people on here always so worried about the pocketbooks of the owners?

Fans of crappy on-ice teams trying to feel better about themselves by looking at a meaningless off-ice data point.

Pathetic in so many ways, but at the same time quite amusing for the rest of us who enjoy watching insecurity complexes rise to the surface and flop around.

 

[3074326]

Love all the Canadien fans getting super defensive after shit talking American markets for attendance for years.

Why can’t you guys fill the barn? Must be time to move the franchise. Don’t deserve a team if nobody shows up. Just repeating the same things you guys say about USA teams.

Note that I don’t feel this way and am just pointing out how pathetic it is. And many of you are guilty of doing this. I’m also not talking about Arizona.

The double standard is pretty obvious to everyone outside of Canada.

 

[Tasteless Beaver]

Love all the Canadien fans getting super defensive after shit talking American markets for attendance for years.

Why can’t you guys fill the barn? Must be time to move the franchise. Don’t deserve a team if nobody shows up. Just repeating the same things you guys say about USA teams.

Note that I don’t feel this way and am just pointing out how pathetic it is. And many of you are guilty of doing this. I’m also not talking about Arizona.

Winnipeg is one of the few places that know what it’s like to lose their team, and our fans largely don’t wish that pain on anyone else. Take this shit elsewhere, we’re not the lightning rod for other fanbases being awful to struggling markets.

 

[Razamanaz]

I truly, truly believe that the (home-)crowd is a non-factor in NHL.

The sound of silence ... no real support at all.

Maybe baby in the Play Offs.

Look, just look, when a player is sent off in a NHL-game - when the camera zooms in the background you se a plenthora of "fans" that stare down at their mobile phones.

Rather sick.

And not just the chicks.

Why on bloody earth do they even pay dear money - to stare down at their ever so boring mobilephones?!

Do that at home, please.

.

 

[Razamanaz]

Most of the European hockey-crowds can outsing a NHL ditto - and that rather easy.

 

[Skidooboy]

this thread and entire conversation is idiotic.

85% attendance with above NHL average ticket prices, a below average corporate support.

get over it. the Jets are Fine.

 

[Beukeboom Fan]

Yeah I personally don't give a shit if they never sold out another game. My team too.

Why are people on here always so worried about the pocketbooks of the owners?

Because in many cases over if the owners pocketbook is bad over the long term, the team is gone.

 

[Razamanaz]

Even a club (supporters) like Rauman Lukko can outsing any NHL club and that easy, I mean real easy.

Raumam Boja.
Remember in a Finland hole like Rauma where there only lives 38 959 people!