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Making Money During The Playoffs
by Paul on 05/05/08 at 04:33 PM ET
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from Ken Campbell of the Hockey News,
The first two rounds have attracted a total of 1,268,281 fans, compared to 1,195,387 through the first two rounds last spring and 1,205,415 through the first two rounds in 2006.
And when you take into account ticket prices for the playoffs have risen each year, that’s a tidy chunk of change for the partners to split up each season.
What’s even more encouraging for everyone involved is that through the first two rounds, league wide, there have been an average of 261 more fans per game than there were last season.
So what does it all mean? Well, there were 72,894 more fans through the turnstiles in the first two rounds this season than last. At an average price of about $150 a ticket in the post-season, that’s in excess of $10.9 million more in revenues without even taking into account the increase in ticket prices from last year, or all the extra concessions they sold at the American Airlines Center in Sunday night’s marathon.
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That’s Australian dollars, right? I could maybe see that as an average in the finals, but NFW is it that high over the entire four rounds.
Posted by shep from california on 05/05/08 at 03:46 PM ET