Season Tickets Are Sold Out.

[BattleBorn]

If you were waiting to pull the trigger, you've waited too long. 16,000 season ticket deposits have been collected.

From a Vegas Is Hockey press release via Sinbin.vegas:

The Las Vegas NHL Franchise announced today that it has received deposits on 16,000 season tickets, which represents all of the season tickets available for the 2017-2018 season. This momentous achievement was reached approximately 18 months after the ticket drive — which had an initial goal of 10,000 tickets — was launched. More than 5,000 tickets were sold within two days and 9,000 season tickets were sold within a month of the launch of the ticket drive.

I can't find the press release online, but here's the Sinbin article:
http://sinbin.vegas/season-tickets-sold/

ETA: And here's the press release/wait list information:

https://www.vegasishockey.com/news-detail?recordNum=190

Click to read more...

 

[The Feckless Puck]

Story about it in USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nhl/2016/09/19/las-vegas-expansion-team-ticket-goal/90702078/



Can't wait!

 

[derriko]

While Im happy for the team, my schedule doesnt allow me to go to many games. So I'll be paying out the ass the 5-6 games or so I do go to.

Oh well...really happy to be cheering for a cap team as Ive been under Melnyk's tight wallet for 15 years now.

 

[HanSolo]

"Vegas will certainly be a failure"

Yeah all right.

 

[Primakov!]

I'll admit I might be overly sensitive here, but it sure reads to me like the author is implying how much better it would have gone if the team was located in a "real" hockey market like Quebec instead.

Talking about how it took Las Vegas 18 months to sell out the 16,000 season tickets is fine, but was it then necessary to add a closing remark about how it only took Winnipeg 17 minutes to sell 13,000 tickets?

To keep it truly relevant they could have talked about how the initial ticket sales went for Columbus, Nashville, and the other expansion teams to keep the comparison on an apples to apples basis. Especially since Winnipeg was the relocation of an established club so the fans were not investing in an expansion team that still needs to be created from the ground up.

 

[VanIslander]

I wonder how many seats were bought by casinos to comp their VIP guests.

 

[The Feckless Puck]

Talking about how it took Las Vegas 18 months to sell out the 16,000 season tickets is fine, but was it then necessary to add a closing remark about how it only took Winnipeg 17 minutes to sell 13,000 tickets?

Of course it's necessary... for the hockey media, that is. Never mind the apples-to-oranges comparison they made between a sales pitch that started before the expansion process had even begun in a city that currently has no top-level professional sports teams and a sales pitch made in a Canadian city that already knew it was getting a team back for the upcoming season.

Unfortunately, as your neighbors down here in AZ have learned over years of painful experience, this little perk that comes with being in a non-traditional market is something permanent that you'll have to put up with as a price of doing business with the NHL.

I wonder how many seats were bought by casinos to comp their VIP guests.

A percentage, maybe, but the fact that 91% of the T-Mobile Center's inventory is sold out before the team even has a name is remarkable regardless of how it was done.

I wonder why people keep asking about this but don't keep asking about how many tickets are corporate purchases at the Maple Leafs' barn.

 

[nobody important]

I'll admit I might be overly sensitive here, but it sure reads to me like the author is implying how much better it would have gone if the team was located in a "real" hockey market like Quebec instead.

Talking about how it took Las Vegas 18 months to sell out the 16,000 season tickets is fine, but was it then necessary to add a closing remark about how it only took Winnipeg 17 minutes to sell 13,000 tickets?

To keep it truly relevant they could have talked about how the initial ticket sales went for Columbus, Nashville, and the other expansion teams to keep the comparison on an apples to apples basis. Especially since Winnipeg was the relocation of an established club so the fans were not investing in an expansion team that still needs to be created from the ground up.

Looks like the post is gone, but I do need to correct some facts. 13,000 tickets were not available for sale to the general public when crazy time hit. Thousands were sold in the days ahead in pre-sales, primarily to Moose season ticket holders. They said up to 8000 seats could have been purchased in pre-sale, and I would be surprised if they didn't hit that number.

Sure, it was heartening to see the support the city threw the team's way. And it would not have made any difference if it was relo or expansion. We were hungry to get a team back, any team. However, that much demand also made a lot of people unhappy. Both frustrations with the ticket ordering system during the big public sale, and afterward when those that got tickets were basically told, here are your seats, take them or leave them. We have a waiting list of 8000, so we aren't too worried about them selling.

You have done very well, but there will always be naysayers waiting to pounce. We even have it in our forum. Oh, the Jets aren't really selling out, I see lots of empty seats. Oh, I can't sell my games anymore because the demand isn't there. Oh, just wait till they have a few more losing seasons and nobody wants to go to the games.

It can be tiresome. Best advice: stay out of the BoH, where the Moriarty's of the world run amok.

 

[KenSinBin]

Here's for all the people out there saying "these are just deposits, wait til they have to pay in full."

http://sinbin.vegas/sold-out-means-sold-out-no-matter-how-skeptical-you-are/

 

[airbus220]

I wonder how many seats were bought by casinos to comp their VIP guests.

There are also agents who buy tickets for all events like on other arenas because they are more interested in concerts and if they can't sell hockey those tickets show up on stubhub. A sold out arena with many empty seats.

 

[willy702]

There are also agents who buy tickets for all events like on other arenas because they are more interested in concerts and if they can't sell hockey those tickets show up on stubhub. A sold out arena with many empty seats.

This arena works differently. MGM has a season ticket type product for the boxes and the better seats. However they specifically do not include NHL because of the separate effort for tickets. They do include the Frozen Fury games and supposedly if they get NCAA games in the future not organized and sold by the Knights they will be included. So in this particular case the broker or agent who can't sell the games actually will not have the tickets. Of course some brokers surely are part of the season ticket list and will sell tickets, but it will be a different pool.

 

[5 Minute Major]

Good for you guys! The NHL made the right choice. Looking forward to seeing your team next fall!