Pointing you to a couple of places this morning addressing Wednesday’s Oil/Wing game, the crowd at JLA and the hit on Williams.
First, a dose of bitterness from Alanah at Hot Oil (a recent addition to the blogroll on the left).
Whenever I hear Detroit referred to as “Hockeytown” without a trace of irony, it’s all I can do to keep my head from exploding. Hockeytown, my ass. In a true “Hockeytown,” fans would stick around the arena until the final buzzer or, you know, actually sell out the games in the first place. In a true “Hockeytown,” the cheers when Winchester was knocked flat on his back tonight would have been deafening. In reality, all the TSN microphones were able to pick up were a few halfhearted “whoo"s. Pathetic.
I grudgingly see her point (although it would have been better received had it not come the day after the Wings dominated her team). Dead crowd, or so it appeared on tv, last night too. Two big rivalry games and a fairly mild audience. Before you blame the fans though, Alanah, you might want to point the finger at the organ-I-zation.
While we’re on the subject of the Oil/Wing game, we return to The Hit. I’ve expressed my opinion that I believe it was clean. Some of you disagreed, and I can see why. It’s turned into quite the debate. I’m going to point you to two different sites where opinions are being intelligently expressed. Matt Saler and Brian List are really nailing this topic at On The Wings, as is Jeff from SISU Hockey.
I suggest you visit both sites and read the accumulation of opinions on the Torres hit, and hits to the head in general.
As far as I know, the games continue to be sellouts. There’s a difference between tickets not sold and tickets not used.
This would be the logical place to claim that all those empty seats belong to the corporations that for whatever reason aren’t using their tickets.
While that may be part of it, I must say that in years past, whenever I sent out messages to those on my mailing list offering up my tickets for sale (I live a couple hours drive away and those weeknight games can be killers come morning), I’d always have my choice among several on whom to sell them. Such is not the case thus far this season.
I receive far fewer responses on average than previous seasons. And those that do respond are looking for a discount. (I never had a problem in the past selling them at face value).
There have been two weeknight games so far this season where I received no responses at all, thus the tickets went unused.
Maybe Michigan’s 49th ranked economy (thanks, Jenny) has something to do with it? I don’t know.
Posted by O-Joe on 11/11 at 01:39 PM