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Looking At The Average Fan
by Paul on 12/07/06 at 09:33 PM ET
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from Wes Goldstein of CBS Sportsline,
This season, all but five of NHL’s 30 teams raised ticket prices, and while the biggest increases have generally been for the premium seats that usually belong to corporate interests, it suggest that the NHL is moving closer to becoming inaccessible to the core base it has relied on.
“Teams are run on luxury boxes and club suites,” said John Vrooman, a Vanderbilt economics professor who focuses on sports economics. “The marginal fan is becoming less and less important because the arena structure has turned hockey demand upside down.
“It used to be the regular fan was important. Now the corporate fan is what counts. The marginal fan in upper deck, the one you see on the videotron, doesn’t really matter.”
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