golleafsgo_17 said:ahh, now i see, the key to winning the Stanley Cup is having the lowest average ticket price..
As has already been discussed, positioning on these types of lists is meaningless because the list is wildly inaccurate for some teams who do not report figures that accurately reflect the actual prices in the building. This is a perfect example... here we have Minnesota listed at #5 and Colorado listed at #19, in spite of the fact that Colorado's ticket prices are much, much higher. It isn't even close. In fact, Minnesota has some extremely reasonable prices:triggrman said:Minnesota has one of the highest ticket prices
ColoradoHockeyFan said:As has already been discussed, positioning on these types of lists is meaningless because the list is wildly inaccurate for some teams who do not report figures that accurately reflect the actual prices in the building. This is a perfect example... here we have Minnesota listed at #5 and Colorado listed at #19, in spite of the fact that Colorado's ticket prices are much, much higher. It isn't even close. In fact, Minnesota has some extremely reasonable prices:
http://wild.com/tickets/SingleGame.html
And those are their single-game prices... season-ticket prices are obviously going to be even lower.
This is exactly why lists like this are worthless.
Precisely. I wouldn't go so far as to necessarily say "most," but definitely at least a few are choosing to define things in a way that results in a drastic misrepresentation of actual ticket prices (and Colorado is a prime example). And that's the point. When some teams are doing this, these lists become worthless.cup2006sensrule said:Perhaps Minnesota honestly answered the questions while most teams fudged their answers or outright lied.
gscarpenter2002 said:EVERY team does giveaways, kdb. Even the mighty leafs give tickets to charities. They also give them to radio stations and other media outlets for promotional purposes. I am still dubious about the numbers, mind you, but let's not get carried away.
As well, players' wives and (sometimes) families get tickets. I have certainly heard of athletes in other sports getting tickets as part of their compensation. I am sure that used to be the case, although I think the new CBA has stamped that out except for traditional practices that have been expressly retained(wives, parents to first game, etc).
As for the Leafs, keep in mind that the quoted figures are in US$.