I went to the first day of training camp and was at the tryouts.. honestly, not impressed. Corbeil looked okay, but I expected more. Moss looked terrible in the scrimmage, McFarland looked good but I guess had a bad practice; the others were mediocre at best.
Forwards wise there are 2-3 fast guys, but most of the others were ungodly slow. Surprisingly slow for guys who played mostly pro last season. There was no urgency to the scrimmage.. like the guys didn't care.
Ticket prices are terribly expensive.. was hoping the cheapest tickets would be in the $8-$10 range. Was thinking of getting season tickets, but at over $300/seat for the crappiest of crappy seats, I can't afford to even get two seats to take one of my sons each game. For the homeopener I'm going to take two of my sons, and it will cost me over $60 (they're 6 and 4, btw), not including parking, and those are for the better of the crappy seats.
In comparison, when the Otters were here I went to a good 10-15 games and paid maybe $15-$20 for good, middle of the ice seats about 10-15 rows up from ice level. Those same seats are $32 now. For $32 I'll go see the Blues. Even worse, with 3 season pricing they've essentially pigeonholed themselves into charging that much for the entire season and thereafter.
I was really, really excited about the Chill, but I'm so down about the team now thanks to prices I simply won't be able to go to more than 2-3 games with my boys or with friends and sit in even adequate seating. Agreed with CrazyEddie that the team won't last past two seasons, if not one. Lower the ticket prices drastically (to meet the level of hockey) and then we'll talk.