tom_servo
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An announced crowd of 18,786 - 33 fewer than a sellout at the Air Canada Centre - watched Canada's top line of Lemieux, Iginla and Sakic put on a show.
http://tsn.ca/world_cup_hockey/news_story.asp?id=98018
Strange.
An announced crowd of 18,786 - 33 fewer than a sellout at the Air Canada Centre - watched Canada's top line of Lemieux, Iginla and Sakic put on a show.
tom_servo said:
monkey_00 said:Thanks for the link to that article........
Most of those fans are Leafs season's tickets holders and those guys have a phobia called; "FEAR OF SUCCESS"...........they don't know how they would be able to handle themselves if one of their teams actually went all the way and WON the whole thing.............
I noticed quite a few empty seats in the stands tonight there as well........ALOT more than the 33 they were claiming too.
Cheers!~
monkey_00
BAuldie said:Toronto is a horrible choice to host the majority of these games.
Alexander the Great said:The seats are pretty expensive and with that along with Canada facing Slovakia which isn't exactly a marquee match up I can't blame people
I was thinking the same thing.Hockeyfan02 said:Guess some Canadians can stop ragging on Minnesota for not selling out now like they were in the US/Russia game thread....
leafs4thecup said:Edmonton? Calgary? Vancouver? Ottawa? These places aren't that loud when their teams are having losing seasons. Especially Edmonton. I find it to be the most overrated atmosphere in hockey. Probably better than any team in the States, and Vancouver also, but still overrated.
leafs4thecup said:The building was sold out guys. People didn't choose to come, or whatever, but 33 seats are all standing-room only. Trust me, Toronto has never not sold out any important game in 50 years. Only one or two games per year, ask fellow leafs fans, are not sold out at game time. Doesn't mean people don't buy, just that they don't go.
Plus, tickets are very expensive, so Toronto is a good place to make money. In the other 5 canadian cities, the prices of tickets to leafs games/other hockey games, are almost tripled. Thus the reason for money.
Edmonton? Calgary? Vancouver? Ottawa? These places aren't that loud when their teams are having losing seasons. Especially Edmonton. I find it to be the most overrated atmosphere in hockey. Probably better than any team in the States, and Vancouver also, but still overrated.
thome_26 said:Are you kidding me? There is a reason that even our biggest rivals right now (Stars) have players that admit Edmonton has the loudest fans. We went through a slump in the early 90's, but that's because of Pocklington. Would you want to support some a$$ owner who just sold of some of the greatest names in hockey history and replaced them with a last place team?! Everybody was rather bitter that our owner sold players because he was losing money else where and in turn ended up costing the city atleast 3-4 more cups in the next 5 years.
Except, doesn't Montreal have a larger capacity? 21000+ compared to Toronto's 19000-20000 seat capacity? Wouldn't that translate into more money if they played more games in Montreal?oilerlova said:i hope u are kidding seriously, u are saying edmonton is not loud when u toronto fans got showed up by the montreal fans give me a break, now i live in vancouver so i only saw one home game and trust me it was loud i would say if u were to host games Edmonton Montreal and Calgary would be the choices, but the money issue is a good point and an important factor
leafs4thecup said:The building was sold out guys. People didn't choose to come, or whatever, but 33 seats are all standing-room only. Trust me, Toronto has never not sold out any important game in 50 years. Only one or two games per year, ask fellow leafs fans, are not sold out at game time. Doesn't mean people don't buy, just that they don't go.
Plus, tickets are very expensive, so Toronto is a good place to make money. In the other 5 canadian cities, the prices of tickets to leafs games/other hockey games, are almost tripled. Thus the reason for money.
Edmonton? Calgary? Vancouver? Ottawa? These places aren't that loud when their teams are having losing seasons. Especially Edmonton. I find it to be the most overrated atmosphere in hockey. Probably better than any team in the States, and Vancouver also, but still overrated.
monkey_00 said:>>>what's that smell? oh, it's YOU Hamilton...
great rivalry eh? <<<
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arrbez..........
Smells just as bad in Toronto as it does in here in Hamilton and oftentimes it's even worse in Toronto........next time you make the drive into Toronto roll down your car windows and take a deep breath.........and do you know what the Indian name for Toronto is?........"The Big Smoke"..........heh heh heh...........Gotta hand it to those Indians for coming up with a name like that for Toronto waaaaay back then..........they were well ahead of their time....................
Next time stick to the topic at hand like the attendance figures that we were talking about.......at the time of hosting the Canada Cups back in 1987 and 1991 Hamilton set attendance records for the Canada Cup tournament which this tourney is also just under a different title that's all..........What's Toronto's excuse for it NOT having the sellout last night?
Cheers!~
monkey_00
BeLeafer87 said:What can I do? Even if you search ticketmaster for tickets and even enter for a single ticket you can't find a seat.