I haven't seen the email yet, but I would bet STH's get first dibs at tickets. Same happened with the Stadium Series.Let's Go! The only downside that I see is that it's not a part of the season ticket package. Regardless I want to take it all in whatever the events are going on that week.
per Russo..I haven't seen the email yet, but I would bet STH's get first dibs at tickets. Same happened with the Stadium Series.
I've seen the Blues, Avs, and Jets as favorites for being the opponent. Watch it be the Jackets for the 20th Anniversary.
Hoping it's not the Jets. Game and atmosphere would be awesome, just see them driving the secondary market up to high. I'll try for the public on-sale but most likely will need to use the secondary market.
Much fewer tickets overall though, so the price is likely going to be higher.I haven't seen the email yet, but I would bet STH's get first dibs at tickets. Same happened with the Stadium Series.
I've seen the Blues, Avs, and Jets as favorites for being the opponent. Watch it be the Jackets for the 20th Anniversary.
Majka admits when the Wild struggled so mightily out of the gate this season (one win in their first seven games, four in their first 14), he started to worry the Wild’s joint bid for the Winter Classic could be derailed. But the Wild, even though TV ratings are a little down compared to last year, are perennially a top-five TV-rated team in the United States.
There’s obviously a huge revenue drop-off when you play the Winter Classic inside 39,000-seat Target Field as opposed to the 85,630 fans at Wednesday’s game at the Cotton Bowl.
So, the partners needed to brainstorm all sorts of ideas that would make up for that lost revenue by coming up with a weeklong Winter Festival rather than just one single outdoor hockey game.
There are the usual ideas and some really cool, outside the box ideas, and the Wild, based in St. Paul, want to integrate some St. Paul events into the week of festivities.
“I hesitate a little bit here because I don’t want to create expectations that all of which won’t come true,” Majka said. “But I believe that this market has the ability to pull off a truly hockey-oriented festival sort of atmosphere. It’ll be really fun to see how it all comes together and what actually happens a year from now.”
They’ve talked about college games, a youth hockey tournament and either an alumni game or some sort of history of Minnesota hockey luncheon or dinner or panel discussion where big hockey-name alumni would be involved. There will, of course, be the usual kid-friendly Fan Fair or Winter Carnival perhaps in multiple buildings and they’ve even discussed having things like a hockey arts exhibit and hockey movie festival. And to increase the lost revenue of playing hockey at a smaller ballpark rather than a football stadium, there very likely will accompanying concerts at Xcel Energy Center, even on New Year’s Eve.
“We want to make it more of a weeklong event rather than just a couple of days and activate Minneapolis and St. Paul so we give fans an opportunity to do a lot of different things,” Mayer said. “We’re trying to get creative. We’re going to have 86,000 in Dallas, and let’s face it, we’re almost half of that in Minnesota.
“So that’s a significant financial blow, and we’re not going to gouge the fans. That’s not what we want to do. It’s a little more expensive to go to an outdoor game than it is a regular game, but we also provide the fans with an incredible experience, music and fan fairs — a lot more than just a regular game.
“But just because we’re in a smaller venue, we’re not going to triple the price of a ticket. So you have to figure out creative ways to help pay for the event. Now, a lot of the thing won’t be NHL-driven. They probably will be Minnesota Wild-driven. We love when we could make it more than just a hockey game, and if we can do all these other things in your neck of the woods, we really feel people will respond to that stuff. So the more we can do, the better.”
Higher....yes. But they aren't going to triple the price or anything like that.Much fewer tickets overall though, so the price is likely going to be higher.
Much fewer tickets overall though, so the price is likely going to be higher.
Will be interesting to see how many of the guys in the picture above are on the roster for the game next year.
I bet all 6, for better or worse
Yeah, but we would have been guaranteed a win with the Hawks. Have you seen their outdoor record?Meh, better the Blues than the Blackhawks.