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Caitlyn Jenner said:
Toronto st Michaels majors. Gone
Brampton Battalion. Gone
Mississauga Ice Dogs. Gone (new team back in Mississauga doesn't get any fan support, really)

Marlies. Not a big following

Leafs. I have never paid less than $150 for a ticket. Ever. That's top row, upper bowl, weekday game, lousy opponent. The secondary resale market is disgusting in Toronto. But prices will Never improve because leaf fans are easily the most loyal fans in all of North American sports. We will always fill the building
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To add to this the Winnipeg AHL team has nearly 1,000 more fans per game than the one in Toronto.
 
Caitlyn Jenner said:
Leafs. I have never paid less than $150 for a ticket. Ever. That's top row, upper bowl, weekday game, lousy opponent. The secondary resale market is disgusting in Toronto. But prices will Never improve because leaf fans are easily the most loyal fans in all of North American sports. We will always fill the building
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The Green Bay Packers say what's up.

Season ticket waiting list has 81,000 names and the average wait is over 30 years.
 
ForumNamePending said:
For the NHL/PA it is because those tickets have already been sold for big $, it's the secondary/resale market that is getting killed. The way things are going this tournament might single handedly bankrupt the ticket broker/scalper industry in Toronto... So I guess that's a positive.
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Most real scalpers didn't touch this thing after the WJHC - a lot of corporate in the lower bowl and a lot of amateur scalpers in the upper bowl getting destroyed.

As noted a few posts up, Toronto is a Leaf town, and then an event town, and that's it. Outside of Canada/US and whoever Canada plays in the knockout round, this isn't an event so it would never sell.
 
Caitlyn Jenner said:
Toronto st Michaels majors. Gone
Brampton Battalion. Gone
Mississauga Ice Dogs. Gone (new team back in Mississauga doesn't get any fan support, really)

Marlies. Not a big following

Leafs. I have never paid less than $150 for a ticket. Ever. That's top row, upper bowl, weekday game, lousy opponent. The secondary resale market is disgusting in Toronto. But prices will Never improve because leaf fans are easily the most loyal fans in all of North American sports. We will always fill the building
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And leave everything else to die.
 
theaub said:
Most real scalpers didn't touch this thing after the WJHC - a lot of corporate in the lower bowl and a lot of amateur scalpers in the upper bowl getting destroyed.

As noted a few posts up, Toronto is a Leaf town, and then an event town, and that's it. Outside of Canada/US and whoever Canada plays in the knockout round, this isn't an event so it would never sell.
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Screw scalpers. I hate it when people treat sporting events like an investment property. Don't gouge people's fandom. Any day a scalper loses money is a good day in my books.
 
Chileiceman said:
Screw scalpers. I hate it when people treat sporting events like an investment property. Don't gouge people's fandom. Any day a scalper loses money is a good day in my books.
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I'd say $145 upper bowls was the NHL gouge people's fandom enough
 
Ratings disaster in the Czech Republic

The second performance of the Czech team (game against Team Europe) had only 480k viewers!

For comparison, the matches of the Czech team at the IIHF World Cup in May watched almost always more than one million viewers.
 
Coinneach said:
The second performance of the Czech team (game against Team Europe) had only 480k viewers!

For comparison, the matches of the Czech team at the IIHF World Cup in May watched almost always more than one million viewers.
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I think we need some context here. A world championship game is shown in primetime in Europe. The World Cup is shown in the middle of the night. 480,000 viewers at that hour doesn't sound like a disaster to me unless I'm missing something.
 
Macman said:
I think we need some context here. A world championship game is shown in primetime in Europe. The World Cup is shown in the middle of the night. 480,000 viewers at that hour doesn't sound like a disaster to me unless I'm missing something.
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I think the earlier match must actually be at 9.30pm in the Czech Republic (in Finland it's 10.30pm, not too bad either).
 
llwyd said:
I think the earlier match must actually be at 9.30pm in the Czech Republic (in Finland it's 10.30pm, not too bad either).
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The timing is great for europe for the 1st game. NHL got that spot on.
 
What's canadas numbers? And how are we getting these numbers those stupid boxes that one person in a neighborhood has one and they use that to judge the group ? Nielson ratings or whatever
 
masa2009 said:
Exactly. Except the "Europe" team in the WCH is not an EU team.
This is EU minus the countries that the NHL on its own accord decided are lucrative enough to have their own team.
I would have been a bit more forgiving towards a true EU team, using the European flag, which this is not. The borders of this Euro team are just custom made by the NHL to fit its desired format and max revenue.
Actually do they even play the European Union anthem before the games? I'm pretty sure they don't.

The West Indies cricket team started during British colonial rule when the entire region was considered an administrative entity. When the islands were granted independence, they first became known as the West Indies Federation, before that Federation fell apart and they became separate microstates.
So while the West Indies country does not exist anymore, those islands at least have a common cultural and political history.

The NHL has done things tastelessly without any regard for either.


Please, you should know that the Britons have a peculiar and fluctuating notion of what constitutes a nation within their sphere of influence, which is often reflected in the national teams of traditionally British sports.
National teams for Scotland and Wales today, national teams for the Dominions of Canada before it became independent, national team for Hong Kong...
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In a true EU team, Norwegian and Swiss players wouldn't be able to play.
 
theaub said:
Most real scalpers didn't touch this thing after the WJHC - a lot of corporate in the lower bowl and a lot of amateur scalpers in the upper bowl getting destroyed.

As noted a few posts up, Toronto is a Leaf town, and then an event town, and that's it. Outside of Canada/US and whoever Canada plays in the knockout round, this isn't an event so it would never sell.
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I bought a ticket package to the WJHC in Toronto because I wanted to ensure that I had tickets to the final few games, what a mistake that was. I would have been way better off to just buy scalped tickets to the games I wanted to see. I could barely give away some of the games, I think I even donated a few to charity for a tax receipt.
 
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