"Last Night's Attendance" Thread II

[golfmade]

You cannot stop stupidity, you can only hope to contain it.

That's a never ending uphill battle.

 

[nomorekids]

15,100 in Nashville tonight, not great, but better than it had been during football season during the week, especially for an out of conference game vs the Leafs.

Also, every weekend game for the rest of the season is now sold out.

Sure enough, 17,113 tonight at the GEC

 

[Hawker14]

Sure enough, 17,113 tonight at the GEC

a recent article claims the preds up until recently were averaging 12,766 in per game paid attendance, and needed to average 16,080 in paid attendance for the remainder of season to meet a 14,000 requirement in their lease.

If the Nashville Predators don't boost paid attendance by one-fourth for the rest of the NHL season, owner Craig Leipold will be able to ask for about $2 million in help from the city and lay groundwork for a possible departure.
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070210/SPORTS02/702100338/1028

in the "By the numbers" section, it also states the preds' give away an average of 1800 free tickets per game. leopold has said it's 1,500. in any event, with the 17,113 seat arena, the Preds will need to significantly cut back on freebies to a thousand or less per game or else there is no possibilty of reaching an average of 16,080 paid fans per game for the rest of the regular season.

 

[nomorekids]

a recent article claims the preds up until recently were averaging 12,766 in per game paid attendance, and needed to average 16,080 in paid attendance for the remainder of season to meet a 14,000 requirement in their lease.



in the "By the numbers" section, it also states the preds' give away an average of 1800 free tickets per game. leopold has said it's 1,500. in any event, with the 17,113 seat arena, the Preds will need to significantly cut back on freebies to a thousand or less per game or else there is no possibilty of reaching the 14,000 paid attendance figure.

i doubt they give away tickets to weekend games, especically at this point in the season...and when they've been sold out for some time. as mentioned, every weekend game from now until the end of the season is sold out.

 

[Hawker14]

i doubt they give away tickets to weekend games, especically at this point in the season...and when they've been sold out for some time. as mentioned, every weekend game from now until the end of the season is sold out.

i agree it makes little sense to give away free tickets to in demand games. others may make that argument for whatever their reasons may be, but it doesn't make sense to me.

of the remaining 13 home dates, 5 are saturday's which nashville draws well. it's good to hear they are all sold out.

of the rest, 1 is a monday, 3 are tuesdays, 1 wednesday, and 4 are thursdays - all days that have been relatively weak for the Pred's this season. i think the first couple weekday games should give a better idea if they'll be able to reach the 14,000 level.

 

[Jarnberg]

of the rest, 1 is a monday, 3 are tuesdays, 1 wednesday, and 4 are thursdays - all days that have been relatively weak for the Pred's this season. i think the first couple weekday games should give a better idea if they'll be able to reach the 14,000 level.

We'll have a hard time getting good numbers for Wednesday's game (Valentine's Day) and the early President's day game (people still working when the game starts). Good to the weekend attendance go up.

 

[Hawker14]

Feb.13

Los Angeles @ Carolina 15,765
Edmonton @ Boston 16,449
NY Islanders @ Toronto 19,600
Florida @ Montreal 21,273
Phoenix @ Tampa Bay 18,019
Anaheim @ Colorado 17,512
Atlanta @ Calgary 19,289

San Jose @ St. Louis 9,235
whatever they're doing in St.Louis isn't working. Even Boston got 16,000+ tonight. Could people care any less about the Blues ?

 

[Ted Hoffman]

San Jose @ St. Louis 9,235
whatever they're doing in St.Louis isn't working. Even Boston got 16,000+ tonight. Could people care any less about the Blues ?

Could you please at least try acquaint yourself with things like the weather raging in the Midwest (including the St. Louis area) first before firing off half-cocked allegations about ............... ah, never mind - you haven't bothered any other time, why should I expect you to start now?

 

[Jarnberg]

Could you please at least try acquaint yourself with things like the weather raging in the Midwest (including the St. Louis area) first before firing off half-cocked allegations about ............... ah, never mind - you haven't bothered any other time, why should I expect you to start now?

Don't forget that they only post attendance nights where one of their choice cities to bash has a "bad night".

 

[Hawker14]

Don't forget that they only post attendance nights where one of their choice cities to bash has a "bad night".

LOL. what are you talking about. the blues last two home games were 11,200 and 9,500. it's an obvious recent trend even if the apologists try to use every excuse they can come up with to deflect the fact attendance is horrible.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

LOL. what are you talking about. the blues last two home games were 11,200 and 9,500. it's an obvious recent trend even if the apologists try to use every excuse they can come up with to deflect the fact attendance is horrible.

The problem with drawing a conclusion based on two points:

1. Yesterday it didn't snow at all.
2. Today, 7 inches of snow fell.

Illogical conclusion: in 5 days we'll get almost 3 feet of snow

Again ... please try to read and learn instead of interjecting an opinion that isn't necessarily supported by the facts.

 

[Lou's Koolaid]

We'll only get about 5,000 tonight in Jersey my guess is about 10,000 to 12,000 tickets were sold but were having all kinds of weather issues today snow/sleet crappy roads etc. Sometimes during these situations we do a turnastyle count.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

We'll only get about 5,000 tonight in Jersey my guess is about 10,000 to 12,000 tickets were sold but were having all kinds of weather issues today snow/sleet crappy roads etc. Sometimes during these situations we do a turnastyle count.

Sorry, that's not an acceptable reason to not have a sellout. Clearly if you can't pack the place in an ice storm/blizzard/etc., you're clearly not supporting your team and thus don't deserve to have one.

 

[Timmy]

Sorry, that's not an acceptable reason to not have a sellout. Clearly if you can't pack the place in an ice storm/blizzard/etc., you're clearly not supporting your team and thus don't deserve to have one.

Winnipeg, here we come!

 

[Jarnberg]

LOL. what are you talking about. the blues last two home games were 11,200 and 9,500. it's an obvious recent trend even if the apologists try to use every excuse they can come up with to deflect the fact attendance is horrible.

You've missed the point. You ignore nights where your choice of teams do well in terms of attendance numbers but then cherry pick days where a team you like to bash doesn't do well attendance wise without looking at why that team didn't sell well.

 

[AdmiralPred]

Winnipeg, here we come!

Not yet. See, I called St. Louis yesterday and they assured me it did not appear to have snowed from where they sat. I then called the NHL office and they told me that NHL attendance, in fact, has no correlation with snow.

 

[Timmy]

Not yet. See, I called St. Louis yesterday and they assured me it did not appear to have snowed from where they sat. I then called the NHL office and they told me that NHL attendance, in fact, has no correlation with snow.

Lovely.

So, no link from you, I gather?

 

[GSC2k2*]

You've missed the point. You ignore nights where your choice of teams do well in terms of attendance numbers but then cherry pick days where a team you like to bash doesn't do well attendance wise without looking at why that team didn't sell well.

In fairness, Hawker has stayed away from that practice more recently.

 

[Nashville108*]

13,826 in Nashville tonight for the Preds' 5-0 win over San Jose.

 

[Stevedude530]

7,515 in NJ, but we had snow and ice all around. CAA is a pain in the ass even with good weather.

 

[nomorekids]

13,826 in Nashville tonight for the Preds' 5-0 win over San Jose.

almost 14K on a wednesday valentines day...a snowy one at that...is a lot better than I expected. Not great, obviously, but this was one of the ones we figured was going to be dreadful...in the 11-12 K range.

 

[Pens75]

13,826 in Nashville tonight for the Preds' 5-0 win over San Jose.

7,515 in NJ, but we had snow and ice all around.

17,000+ sellout in Pittsburgh tonight despite all the snow and ice.

But don't tell Don Cherry that.

 

[Nashville108*]

almost 14K on a wednesday valentines day...a snowy one at that...is a lot better than I expected. Not great, obviously, but this was one of the ones we figured was going to be dreadful...in the 11-12 K range.

It wasnt snowing

 

[nomorekids]

It wasnt snowing

It did throughout the day, and the roads weren't\aren't great.

 

[Seth Lake]

It wasnt snowing

It was snowing (flurries) from the time I walked out of the HOP till the time I just got home (I stayed late for the post-game show in the Jack Daniel's Club).

Regardless, snow was not a factor in tonight's attendance, but I'm sure the cold kept some of the walkup fans away (still not an excuse).

As NMK said, it was a better crowd than I had actually expected and I thought the crowd was very loud all night long and was really behind the team 100%.

For Valentine's Day and a Wednesday night (big church night here in the Bible Belt) drawing just under 14K isn't that bad. Honestly, I doubt 1,500 tickets were given away tonight either, but there is no way to tell...

Very happy with the Nashville crowd tonight and kudos to those in NJ and Pittsburgh that battled the winter weather to get to their games tonight as well.