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Date: | Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:06:41 -0500 |
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Erik Biever writes:
>Perhaps the WCHA is discovering the maximum price that fans are willing to pay
>for tickets. The tournament package cost $75 plus TicketMonster fees, a
>substantial increase over last year. No more than 5000 ticket packages were
>sold as of a week before the event. Probably a bunch of them went to UND
>fans,
>who counted on their team's appearance. Fans of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and St.
>Cloud, uncertain whether their teams would make it, appeared unwilling to buy
>in advance.
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>There is a hard core group of fans (myself included) who go to the WCHA
>tournament, wherever it is, whoever is in it, and whatever the price. But,
>that group isn't large enough to fill a 17,000 seat arena. Tickets may
>now be
>too expensive to attract the more casual fan. If the WCHA measures success by
>the number of fans it attracts, greed is getting in the way.
Wow! $75 for four games over three nights. We got "club seats" for $20 a
night at the Fleet Center for the HE semis and finals. These places are
pricing themselves above the market. Sad to see.
Greg Ambrose
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