NHL Transactions, Injuries & Rumours

[hong57]

doans almost signed
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=404699

[Shep]

That city is just delaying the inevitable, year by year.

When your average ticket price is $36.15, and you only sell 72.5% of your seats on average per game (12,420), you're not going to last very long unless your owner loves losing money.

They have a great TV deal and that is the only reason that team hasn't moved already, according to some sources. It actually helps other teams, and without it Phoenix likely would have moved 5 years ago.

A survey of several current and former NHL governors - who would not speak on the record because commissioner Gary Bettman frowns on public discussions of league business - highlighted the league's need to keep the Phoenix market (the 12th-largest in the United States, according to Nielsen Media Research) in order to maximize a U.S. TV contract

(Sources said other factors included a league with 24 U.S.-based owners preferring to see the game grow within that nation's borders, the image of having a large U.S. market rather than a small Canadian one, and a desire to eventually move a couple of Eastern teams, like the Columbus Blue Jackets and Nashville Predators, out of the Western Conference.)

[Chuck Norris]

That city is just delaying the inevitable, year by year.

When your average ticket price is $36.15, and you only sell 72.5% of your seats on average per game (12,420), you're not going to last very long unless your owner loves losing money.

They have a great TV deal and that is the only reason that team hasn't moved already, according to some sources. It actually helps other teams, and without it Phoenix likely would have moved 5 years ago.

Pretty sure I read that centre ice tickets cost around $30 and that comes with a free hotdog AND a beer. Thats just the cost of parking at alot of Canadian arenas...

[Lee]

Yeah.. moving to Phoenix.

[armandtanzarian]

no, not that cheap. When we went last year in November against Blackhawks, we paid 68 bucks for third row corner/goalie. Amazing seats. It is empty enough that you can buy a cheap seat and sit wherever you want anyway...

[Shep]

That city is just delaying the inevitable, year by year.

When your average ticket price is $36.15, and you only sell 72.5% of your seats on average per game (12,420), you're not going to last very long unless your owner loves losing money.

They have a great TV deal and that is the only reason that team hasn't moved already, according to some sources. It actually helps other teams, and without it Phoenix likely would have moved 5 years ago.

Pretty sure I read that centre ice tickets cost around $30 and that comes with a free hotdog AND a beer. Thats just the cost of parking at alot of Canadian arenas...

I don't think that's right. Maybe centre ice, upper deck..

[armandtanzarian]

You might be thinking of the Panthers Chuck. I know they had a deal like that on last year.

[Chuck Norris]

You might be thinking of the Panthers Chuck. I know they had a deal like that on last year.

That could very well be lol. I don't remember for sure who it was that had that deal on...

[Lee]

Brad Marchand extended 4 years 4.5 per.

[Shep]

Ottawa Extends Zack Smith [4 Years, $1,887,500/year]

[The BBKL Insider]

not like fucking oiler tickets

Last year we paid 200 bucks a piece for 18 rows back at Rexall


this year (if we have hockey) our seats were almost 300 a piece (leafs vs Oilers Dec. 18th) but they are only 3 row back, right behind the oilers bench....how i wish we had the American prices.

[Phion Keneuf]

i swear Preds used to have 7$ tickets a couple years back .. probably nosebleeds, but still

[Nick]

Vancouver is brutal for tickets, insanely expensive and of course the scalpers are greasy

[Chuck Norris]

Vancouver is brutal for tickets, insanely expensive and of course the scalpers are greasy

All scalpers are greasy Nick

[Nick]

Honestly - in seattle going to a concert last minute, met a very nice scalper.

[Shep]

Vancouver is brutal for tickets, insanely expensive and of course the scalpers are greasy

Welcome to Toronto.

[kyuss]

'amazing', we don't have hockey but we are still served the bad part, injuries:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/flor ... 2807.story

[Lee]

Fuck me...

[Lee]

Kevin Paul Dupont @GlobeKPD

Seguin new deal. 6 years at $5.75m per. Confirmed by #Bruins.

[armandtanzarian]

Lol, hopefully the cap dont drop too much. Bruins could be in some trouble next year. Rask and Lucic RFA coming up. With Seguin and Marchand done, Chia is doing some locking up of the young guys.