I always get the price I want from scalpers if I just wait for 10 min of the first period to go by.
To quote the O-dog it doesn't matter for the average Joe who can't afford the tickets anyway.
Seriously, save your money, buy flight tickets to Tampa, and watch the Leafs for pennies on the dollar. Saw the Leafs play there for $12 once.
A lot of people are used to travelling to games and live outside the GTA. I have my pick of Leafs tickets at the ACC, but I still end up in Niagara, Buffalo, Hamilton, Detroit, etc.. to watch different teams play in the NHL/OHL/AHL.Boy, you guys will go way out of your way to save a few bucks eh? I'd rather watch a game downtown, grab a brew in the area then go home.
Boy, you guys will go way out of your way to save a few bucks eh? I'd rather watch a game downtown, grab a brew in the area then go home.
One has to wonder where the stupidity ends. I guess Corporate Canada can carry the Leafs franchise no matter how stupid the ticket prices get. And O-dog (whoever that is) is spot on. The average Joe doesn't give a crap because they aren't going anyway.
Last season the Leafs average ticket price was more than double that of the league average.
Last year...
Leafs avg. price = 124.69
NHL avg. price = 61.01
If we took the Leafs ticket price out of the equation, What is the average for the other 29 teams? I'll guess it's about 57
To quote the O-dog it doesn't matter for the average Joe who can't afford the tickets anyway.
If the the average joe doesn't give a crap, then how come they ***** and moan every time the ticket prices are increased?
Everyone can afford to go, its a matter of if you want to spend the money or not. I assume everyone on here works, and it doesn't matter what your job is as well. If you bring in a pay-cheque you are able to go. But most of us are smart with our money and choose not to pay the prices. I'm 26 years old and I don't have the best job around but I get paid every 2 weeks and I could afford to go to a game here and there, but will I...probably not when I can go to the beer store get a case of beer and watch from my house with a bunch of friends. I'd definitely love to go at least once but I refuse to pay those prices, has nothing to do with being able to afford tickets.
I went two years ago with two friends of mine (the game against Ottawa where Phaneuf decked Da Costa), we got our tickets from one of their friends, I paid 120 bucks for mine we were in the purples. It was also my buddies birthday so I bought him a few beers. All in all for the night out I put out probably 250 bucks. Like I'm willing to do that on occasion but not all the time. And I'm sure most of us on here feel the same way.
MLSE (owned by Bell/Rogers) are vultures for charging insane ticket prices in a salary cap era game. They just pocket all the excess revenue for themselves (since they can't spend it on player salaries) while the small market teams spend a large chunk of their revenue on player salaries in order to compete with the big market teams. Every team has went above the cap floor soon after the free agency window opened. So it's not just that teams are forced to compete. But they kinda have to in order to stay competitive so that their fans will continue supporting the team.
And Leaf fans are suckers for buying those over-priced tickets. If you want lower ticket prices, there's only one solution: boycott Leafs tickets until MLSE is forced to lower prices.
I actually tried this once. I went to the ACC and tried to get a pair of tickets. By the time the puck dropped, the only tickets available from any of the scalpers were $450 a pair.