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Category Archives: Pro Hockey Ticket Pricing

The Selling of a Six Pack to a Southerner

3 October, 2008

A brand new colleague in my office, Victoria, not yet six weeks in her new gig, hails from Gulfport, Mississippi. She’s a young twenty-something, bright and engaging, and while college on the West Coast and two brief employment stints in D.C. have well dulled her Mississippi drawl, it’s still abundantly clear that she’s a seriously [...]

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It's a Saturday Night in April, and We're Playing Seriously Meaningful Hockey

5 April, 2008

On Stubhub this morning, the cheapest ticket to the game tonight was $206 for a single seat in the club level. Lower bowl seats there were $353 each. Over on Craigslist, desperate ticket searchers posted ads claiming their willingness to pay “$250 per ticket.” On Ticketmaster’s ticketexchange site, two seats in section 401 were¬†fetching $313.50, [...]

Also filed in Media, National Hockey League, Washington Capitals | Comments (0)

The Branding of a Winner in Washington, the "Good Hockey Market"

12 February, 2008

Little commented upon during this Capitals’ Renaissance is how many people around town are taking notice:
Lots.
Suddenly, the downtown rink is packed. The team’s new look is a red-hot hit with the home crowd. The sports section fronts of the city’s newspapers are each week ablaze in full-color hockey victory imagery. Even the TV numbers are [...]

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Death by Late-Night TV

17 October, 2007

In Monday’s New York Times, in her “Sports of the Times” column, Selena Roberts posits that baseball itself is largely culpable for its death as a participation sport in the U.S. She noted that by the time MLB got around to sanctioning the first pitch of an American League playoff game last Saturday night, the [...]

Also filed in American Hockey League, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Print | Comments (7)

The Hurricanes Open Their Doors, Wide

7 August, 2007

It’s supposed to be about a million degrees today in D.C., so necessarily I’m insulating myself with frigid thoughts. Specifically, I have Sunday, September 16 on my mind. It’ll still be mild-to-warm then, especially in Raleigh, North Carolina, but Hurricanes’ management is doing something wonderfully frosty for the Research Triangle community that day: it’s authorizing [...]

Also filed in Morning cup-a-joe, NHL Lockout, National Hockey League | Comments (6)

More Foul Winds Under Wirtz

31 March, 2007

Today’s Chicago Tribune details what is perhaps the nadir of the Chicago Blackhawks under Bill Wirtz: free tickets there can’t even be given away:
“One of the National Hockey League’s charter franchises, the Blackhawks have been so desperate to attract fans to a half-empty United Center that the organization has been offering free seats through numerous [...]

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Maniacal About Their Small-Town Hockey

16 March, 2007

Maine is a massive state which is massively underpopulated — blissfully so, many of its residents allege. According to 2005 Census Bureau data, the populations of Maine (1,321,505) and Fairfax County, Virginia, (1,006,529) are comparable. Maine’s northern-most county, Aroostook, is so large in sheer size that it betters the combined sizes of all of Maine’s [...]

Also filed in CHL, Entry Draft, Los Angeles Kings, Old Time Hockey, Sweaters | Comments (4)

Caps Go After Niedermeyer (and Otter)

24 January, 2007

Consistent critics of pro hockey ticket prices, we also praise well-conceived and meaningful discount schemes, and the Caps have a new one. Targeting the poorest among us (college kids), the Caps this week announced that for the remainder of the season those in possession of a valid college ID can get into the team’s [...]

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