RaginRonic
The Ragin' One. with the big shoulder chip.
(A bit of a warning for length here...I want to do this post right.)
For a little while, I've been doing some thinking on how to make the Stanley Cup Final Championship Series a bit better, and after a bit of refining, I think I've happened on something.
As we know, that series is always played in the usual 18,000+ seat venues where each team involved plays their standard games. However, I also know that such demand for tix for that series is intensely high.
Well, what if there were a way to have more of them available? I think that's possible, but there's only one way I see it happening that way.
The way to do it, would be to turn that series into, in terms of size and scope, into the NHL's version of WWE's WrestleMania event. That is, to host the Cup Final in closed-roof football stadiums, with the ice in the middle of the building.
My idea would see an entry ramp for all the players to walk down attached to a large stage at one end of the building, where on the stage, during the 2nd intermission, a live band would play some songs for the crowd from Games 1 to 4, with those performances airing live on both CBC/Sportsnet and NBC.
The stadiums that would be used would be ones with either fixed roofs, or ones that could close. For Canada, they would be B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver, Rogers Centre in Toronto, and, yes, Olympic Stadium in Montreal. For the U.S., they would be venues like Safeco Field, the Superdome, Ford Field, U.S. Bank Stadium, Lucas Oil Stadium, Tropicana Field, AT&T Stadium, University of Phoenix Stadium, and whatever others exist in that fashion.
The venues would be assigned based on geographic distance(i.e. Montreal and Ottawa would be at Olympic Stadium, the Leafs at Rogers Centre, and the 4 West Conf. teams at B.C. Place, and the U.S. teams playing wherever they're closest to).
The ticket rules I'd use for this type of super-sized Cup Final series would be that all season ticket holders from both franchises involved would get to attend each game in both stadiums, with their airfares/trainfares, hotels, and meals paid for. The rest of the tickets would be split between more fans for each team and neutral fans, with all celebs and family members sitting in private boxes.
This type of Cup Final would, for lack of a better term, make the NHL a LOT of cash, and allow for the event to become a bit bigger in prominence. However, I'd also put the normal rinks the teams play in to work, setting up viewing parties for all games, and having regular activities for those places continue as normal, while the fans in those places would watch the games on the scoreboard screens, and also have some intermission entertainment for those arenas.
Would this sound like a good idea to anyone here?
=P
For a little while, I've been doing some thinking on how to make the Stanley Cup Final Championship Series a bit better, and after a bit of refining, I think I've happened on something.
As we know, that series is always played in the usual 18,000+ seat venues where each team involved plays their standard games. However, I also know that such demand for tix for that series is intensely high.
Well, what if there were a way to have more of them available? I think that's possible, but there's only one way I see it happening that way.
The way to do it, would be to turn that series into, in terms of size and scope, into the NHL's version of WWE's WrestleMania event. That is, to host the Cup Final in closed-roof football stadiums, with the ice in the middle of the building.
My idea would see an entry ramp for all the players to walk down attached to a large stage at one end of the building, where on the stage, during the 2nd intermission, a live band would play some songs for the crowd from Games 1 to 4, with those performances airing live on both CBC/Sportsnet and NBC.
The stadiums that would be used would be ones with either fixed roofs, or ones that could close. For Canada, they would be B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver, Rogers Centre in Toronto, and, yes, Olympic Stadium in Montreal. For the U.S., they would be venues like Safeco Field, the Superdome, Ford Field, U.S. Bank Stadium, Lucas Oil Stadium, Tropicana Field, AT&T Stadium, University of Phoenix Stadium, and whatever others exist in that fashion.
The venues would be assigned based on geographic distance(i.e. Montreal and Ottawa would be at Olympic Stadium, the Leafs at Rogers Centre, and the 4 West Conf. teams at B.C. Place, and the U.S. teams playing wherever they're closest to).
The ticket rules I'd use for this type of super-sized Cup Final series would be that all season ticket holders from both franchises involved would get to attend each game in both stadiums, with their airfares/trainfares, hotels, and meals paid for. The rest of the tickets would be split between more fans for each team and neutral fans, with all celebs and family members sitting in private boxes.
This type of Cup Final would, for lack of a better term, make the NHL a LOT of cash, and allow for the event to become a bit bigger in prominence. However, I'd also put the normal rinks the teams play in to work, setting up viewing parties for all games, and having regular activities for those places continue as normal, while the fans in those places would watch the games on the scoreboard screens, and also have some intermission entertainment for those arenas.
Would this sound like a good idea to anyone here?
=P
