BLB: Cause for concern?

[Raimu]

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but 1685 attendance for a playoff game with a contending team is a bit concerning.

http://theqmjhl.ca/video/game-1-voltigeurs-1-armada-3

lots of empty seats there. Reminds me a lot of the attendance numbers of the Montreal Junior.

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[edguy]

Probably just looking into it too much. Let compare its numbers to teams like Bathurst and Baie Comeau's numbers and compare before we think its cause for concern

 

[tigervixxxen]

Weekday games dont tend to do well, probably didn't help that they didn't start on a Friday. Plus this is round 1, if say round 3 didn't get much attention that would be an issue.

 

[IceCapsHabs]

Weren't they one of the teams that might be moving to St. John's ?

 

[Sidekick]

There is usually a league-wide dip in round 1.

BLB has big problems though, because of Laval.

 

[Thebesthockey]

hello rockets bye bye BLB

 

[Raimu]

Reflecting on this a week later, even Halifax's attendance was pretty pathetic for game 3. I guess there is a dip for the first round, I don't get why, lol. The casual fan is a strange and fickle creature.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

Reflecting on this a week later, even Halifax's attendance was pretty pathetic for game 3. I guess there is a dip for the first round, I don't get why, lol. The casual fan is a strange and fickle creature.

Because a large amount of season ticket holders are corporations that don't pony up for playoff tickets. I would also suspect that the average joe season ticket holder knows when a weak halifax team is playing a power house like the Huskies that it might not be worth his time going in on some playoff tickets.

 

[Shmookpup]

Sorry about being really late here, but I've considered this issue for months.

- The game was on a Thursday, with a guaranteed game 2 the following day, a Friday. If you're a middle-class family, (which is the majority of the Armada crowd) for the sake of your kids and starting your weekend well, you'd rather spend the money on the Friday game.

- The casual fans, since the Dubois/Boulet acquisitions, expected us to blow through Drummondville with little effort. They'd rather save the money until we inevitably play in round 2, which happened. Then in the Bathurst series, we had good general attendance, except for game 7, which fell on a Tuesday. No casual fan goes to a major junior game on Tuesday.

- As mentioned by Fixed To Ruin, there are some season ticket holders that don't show up. I have a friend who sells tickets at the arena. She showed me the chart of the season ticket holders on her computer screen and I was shocked. Those season tickets alone are enough to have a strong foundation for how many people you'd expect at a game. Unfortunately, some of these corporations don't care whether it's the regular season or playoffs, unless it's a big game (Saint John series).