Canadiens tickets sellout streak

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$85 each... add the standard $15-20 in processing fees... that's pushing $200 for a couple to go to a hockey game. Not counting parking, food, anything. Just walking through the door. To see the last-place team in the league play the 3-4-1 Florida Panthers, in a game where Vincent Trocheck is the top statistical player involved.

Is this supposed to be "lol" level low pricing?

Meanwhile, Montrealers can see Jay-Z or Lady Gaga in concert for about half that...
$85 each... add the standard $15-20 in processing fees... that's pushing $200 for a couple to go to a hockey game. Not counting parking, food, anything. Just walking through the door. To see the last-place team in the league play the 3-4-1 Florida Panthers, in a game where Vincent Trocheck is the top statistical player involved.

Is this supposed to be "lol" level low pricing?

Meanwhile, Montrealers can see Jay-Z or Lady Gaga in concert for about half that...

The ticket prices in the reds for Florida vs Montreal tonight ,regular price is $152 to $215 each....
Depends on section red you want to sit in, section A B C or D..
(Section A $215.00) - (Section D- $152.00 )

When you see peope trying to sell them for 50% less,yes defiantly Lol pricing...
 
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tarheelhockey

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The ticket prices in the reds for Florida vs Montreal tonight
Regular price is $152 to $215 each....

When you see peope trying to sell them for 50% less,yes defiantly Lol

It's not the 50% reduced value that's "lol low", it's the face value which is "lol high".

Other than sheer scarcity of availability, can you explain what it is about attending a Montreal vs Florida hockey game in October that would be worth $430 just for tickets for you and your girlfriend to sit in the nosebleeds? I get it, there's magic in the building and all that. But seriously. $430 for nosebleeds to see the Panthers.
 
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Habaneros

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It's not the 50% reduced value that's "lol low", it's the face value which is "lol high".

Other than sheer scarcity of availability, can you explain what it is about attending a Montreal vs Florida hockey game in October that would be worth $430 just for tickets for you and your girlfriend to sit in the nosebleeds? I get it, there's magic in the building and all that. But seriously. $430 for nosebleeds to see the Panthers.


In Montreal it's LOL Greed.

LOL extortion

When it.cost ya $2000 dollars to take a family out for 1 regular season game...ya...


Don't forget it's regular season prices for all pre season games too..lol
 
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LeHab

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My point is Habs had a 10000+ 5years+ waiting list for season tickets. As long as that waiting list still exists, the team won't care. Because as soon as you let go off your seats, someone else in line will happily jump to take them.

Sure we know there is a waiting list of several years for season tickets which amounts for about 14 000 places. About 7000 are still available otherwise where demand is more sensitive to short term success of the team.
 

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As the ticket prices continue to rocket up, the waiting list gets smaller....IMHO
Over the last 5-7 years tickets have gone up a lot.Taken people off the list.

If the Habs do decide to go full scale Vancouver rebuild, well we already got season ticket holders this year in Montreal trying to sell tickets for 50% off the face value....Imagine 3-4 years of pain....lol

Vancouver had a 6000+ waiting.list years ago.....Look at them now...lol
Tryin to sell "mini" season ticket packages during the season with an empty rink.

You know what that tells me ?

It tells me there are people who HATE the team and the way they are playing now. But those same people hold very hard onto their season tickets, they hold so much on them they are trying just to not see them go away and them cover 100% of the cost...so they are offering them at 50% of face value, tickets they paid 75% of face value.
 

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The attendance the Habs reported to the NHL

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A pair of White can be had now for 92USD (all fees in) on stub for the game today while the face value is 197CDN
where tickets are still available

I try to go to a Devils game in Montreal each year, so I log onto the Habs site & maneuver through the September "waiting room" (which is typically a disaster) to get seats.

This was the first year I tried to buy tickets, where I actually pulled tickets, that I didnt buy them, since about 1998 or 1999.

I looked at the prices, and they seemed crazy. So I went to Stubhub while I was "on the clock" on some Devils/Habs tickets, and I noticed there were listed tickets that were ALREADY priced just below what the Canadians were asking on their onsale! And I'm talking WITH the fees! That. Is. A. Really. Bad. Sign. Needless to say, I passed.

If I decide to go to that game, and I probably will, I'll buy my seats on the secondary market, and I guarantee I'll pay less than the Habs prices.
 

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There seems to be a big concern with face value. But most people are paying face. A 30-40% discount off face might just reflect the season ticket holders per game price.
 

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Montreal is at a crossroads. Next spring it will be 25 years since the last parade down the usual route and they could be facing a rebuild.

Fans in the 300/400's sections at Centre Bell are fed up with the lack of renovations in the cheap seats. Unlike Toronto many of the Habs season ticket holders are individuals as Montreal corporate is a shell of what it was 30-40 years ago.

Canadiens’ on-ice woes translating into empty seats and cheaper tickets



The Canadiens recently reduced the price of some tickets for a game next Wednesday against Ottawa after several tickets remained available, a spokesman with the organization confirmed Friday.

Donald Beauchamp said the change affected only a few tickets, which were put at regular price instead of the "optimum" price usually applied to popular matchups.

"A week to 10 days before that game, in very few categories, we just lowered the price back to regular price instead of keeping it at optimum price," he told The Canadian Press in a phone interview.

Beauchamp described the price drop as a "one-off" and blamed the sluggish sales on the Canadiens’ packed home schedule, which includes 13 games at the Bell Centre from Nov. 7 through Dec. 9.
 

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What are many tickets unsold though? A few hundred? Or more? I can tell you many NHL teams will claim a sellout despite a few hundred seats still available on the primary market on ticketmaster less than half an hour prior to face off. I think that's OK but once you get to 500 or more it's a little disengeneous to claim a sellout.
 

LeHab

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What are many tickets unsold though? A few hundred? Or more? I can tell you many NHL teams will claim a sellout despite a few hundred seats still available on the primary market on ticketmaster less than half an hour prior to face off. I think that's OK but once you get to 500 or more it's a little disengeneous to claim a sellout.

Fenway article describes well how the Habs account for oversold corporate suites in their "sold out" claims despite side by side tickets remaining. Rather deceptive.
 

Killion

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^^^ So, nosebleeds top corner section, whereas the sections next to it appear to be filled. Heck, I used to see that at Maple Leaf Gardens in the 80's. Minor blip on the radar.
 

Habaneros

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^^^ So, nosebleeds top corner section, whereas the sections next to it appear to be filled. Heck, I used to see that at Maple Leaf Gardens in the 80's. Minor blip on the radar.

Many empty seats in the lower bowl tonight also..I bet 2000 empty
 

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