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Talking Avalanche Attendance
by Paul on 11/06/09 at 10:12 AM ET
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from Adrian Dater of All Things Avs,
Money, of course, was a top reason listed as to why people aren’t showing up as much right now, and I can certainly understand that.
But it’s obviously more than just money why people aren’t showing up right now to see what is a first-place team. Lots of people are tired at the lack of feeling that they are being heardby the Avalanche – be it by the team management or the ticket offices or the game-night entertainment staff or wherever.
A lot of you think the Avs just don’t care all that much about what you have to say. I think this can be more broadly accused, though, to the parts of the organization not having to do with the actual hockey operations. And I don’t want to just sit here and take cheapshots at them. There are a lot of good people who work with the Avs and they’ve been a pretty darn successful organ-i-zation over the years, and they’ve given back a lot to the community.
But I still hear complaints all the time about the lack of coherance about ticket prices/policies, etc. when they call the ticket offices. I hear a lot of complaints about the awful music that is blared into their ears at the Pepsi Center. I hear a lot of complaints about how nobody seemed to care when they, as a longtime season ticket holder, complained that lower bowl seats were sold to new customers at cheaper prices than they’ve paid for years – even in the upper bowl.
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Excuses are excuses, whether it’s October or Christmas or March. We Preds fans get told this repeatedly.
All those empty seats are all those empty seats.
Posted by Predneck from Hicktown on 11/06/09 at 01:47 PM ET
Proof the experiment of moving teams from loving markets that cherish and adore their teams has failed. Those 200 plus sellouts were only due to the fact they won the Stanley Cup. A real hockey town would support them no matter, they should move to Regina!
Posted by Nimrod on 11/06/09 at 09:11 PM ET
Dater’s solution is a flashy marketing campaign?
Great idea. Let’s ask Tampa Bay how the “Seen Stamkos” venture helped attendance figures (94.6% capacity in 2007-08; 85.6% in 2008-09; 72.5% in 2009-10).
Posted by PRC. on 11/07/09 at 10:16 PM ET
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Season tix sales has everything to do with attendance numbers. I’m sure season tix sales tanked after last year. You are not going to have walk up sales when tix are $100 or so....It won’t happen especially in October/November against Phoenix......Hockey season really starts around Xmas anyway. I’m sure the Aves will sell alot of tix as Xmas presents and attendance will be good in the second half of the season as long as they are still a decent team....when you crap the bed you are going to suffer in Oct/Nov at the gate. There is no avoiding it...All the STH whining whether justified or not doesn’t mean much
Posted by kevin from boston on 11/06/09 at 11:27 AM ET