BigGoalBrad
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southcoasttoday.com
WILMINGTON -- Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs said yesterday that his team's ticket prices are too high and he hopes the next collective bargaining agreement with players will keep them from rising again.
The current labor contract expires next September. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has indicated that owners need a way to contain salaries that now cost them 75 percent of their revenue.
The Bruins increased ticket prices for the coming season by an average of 2 percent to — percent. Their $99 top price is one of the lowest in the league Bruins spokeswoman Heidi Holland said.
"Ticket prices are too darn high. Our prices are high. We've been chasing away the fans with it over the last couple of years" Jacobs said. "For every dollar that we've increased ticket prices we've spent more than two on a player.
"So we recognize we've got a problem. I hope that the commissioner in the next CBA is able to reach an agreement that allows us to stabilize the ticket prices and perhaps even lower them because I think we are chasing away a lot of our ticket base."
We honestly were the Oakland A's of the NHL looking up to the Red Wings like the Rays look up to the Red Sox.
Can't believe the bungle of the first lockout JJ orchestrated (and having noone under contract for the rollback i.e. Gonchar/Thornton/Nylander for 70 cents on the dollar) didn't set the team back decades.
Fenway in your opinion how much better is the current TV deal than what the NHL had during the Outdoor Living Network days adjusted for inflation and everything (but not in comparison to the other 3 sports of course?) It was sort of ingraned in us that it was peanuts and payroll had to be met with ticket/hot dog sales.