Sportsnet report on ticket price plans for all 30 teams

[ColoradoHockeyFan]

Does anyone have the ticket prices for Toronto... the price/location for each price level in the building, at season ticket holder rates? I might be missing it, but I can only find the seating chart without prices on their website. Thanks.

 

[Scoogs]

Does anyone have the ticket prices for Toronto... the price/location for each price level in the building, at season ticket holder rates? I might be missing it, but I can only find the seating chart without prices on their website. Thanks.

Unless there are games available, they don't have a list. Once a schedule for next season is released you'll see a list created either on www.ticketmaster.ca or www.theaircanadacentre.com

 

[Weary]

All Bettman promised to achieve from this lockout was affordable ticket prices?

Sorry for not being adequately clear when I wrote that. I should've said "..all he promised with regards to ticket prices. However he did make other promises which did not relate to ticket prices. In using the word 'all,' I use it only in reference to the subject of this thread: ticket prices." I'll try to write more precisely in the future.

He's going to set the market in all thirty cities?

I want you to know that I am committed to fixing the problems that face our League and to delivering an economic system that will bring you exciting, world-class NHL hockey at ticket prices you can afford. -- Gary Bettman​

 

[shakes]

Does anyone have the ticket prices for Toronto... the price/location for each price level in the building, at season ticket holder rates? I might be missing it, but I can only find the seating chart without prices on their website. Thanks.

lol... why have prices when none are available.

 

[ColoradoHockeyFan]

I want you to know that I am committed to fixing the problems that face our League and to delivering an economic system that will bring you exciting, world-class NHL hockey at ticket prices you can afford. -- Gary Bettman​

But there's the rub. At ticket prices you can afford. Clearly the people attending the games can, by definition, afford to. So if you're in Toronto or Colorado, you're going to continue to see astronomical prices.

 

[Poddubny]

Thanks to a corporate client, I sat in sec 109/row 15 (blue line) at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto in Feb 2004. The ticket price was $197 Cdn.

 

[ColoradoHockeyFan]

lol... why have prices when none are available.

They're capped here too, but they still publish the prices... they just note that they're sold out. I was just curious if anyone had the Toronto prices handy... maybe from season ticket mailing insert from last year or something.

 

[mr gib]

as for the canucks - there is no plan - ( we won't raise them ) wow

 

[Scoogs]

Thanks to a corporate client, I sat in sec 109/row 15 (blue line) at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto in Feb 2004. The ticket price was $197 Cdn.

Yes yes...$197 for mine as well. Sec 108, Row 21...

Absolutely incredible. I got these seats from a doctor in my moms office...

One problem with these prices. Only the business associates and suits go to these games. These people aren't passionate fans. You can tell by the amount of noise they make at the games:

"chirp chirp chirp..."

Yea you gotta really pay attention. I hope MLSE takes notice on the huge sacrifice we as Leaf fans took this past year... I know it's probably not going to happen, but they have no excuse NOT to drop ticket prices.

 

[hockeytown9321]

Thanks to a corporate client, I sat in sec 109/row 15 (blue line) at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto in Feb 2004. The ticket price was $197 Cdn.

What were the Leafs' highest prices for a potential Finals game? IF the Red Wings had made the Finals last year, the top price would've been $500.

 

[Scoogs]

What were the Leafs' highest prices for a potential Finals game? IF the Red Wings had made the Finals last year, the top price would've been $500.

If not, more!

 

[nhlfan79]

A big boo hiss here to our new owners here in Atlanta. They're "maintaining" the pre-lockout price increases that would have gone into effect for the 2004-05 season. In my book, that's not maintaining prices. That's an out-and-out increase, and it's BS and no way to placate fans in a delicate market. All I know is that I'll be paying 10% more for my next game than I did my last game.

 

[ColoradoHockeyFan]

What were the Leafs' highest prices for a potential Finals game? IF the Red Wings had made the Finals last year, the top price would've been $500.

Still, that's one exceptional event. Overall, we in Denver (along with the folks in Toronto, I'm sure) would kill to have the prices you have in Detroit.

http://www.freep.com/sports/redwings/metro8e_20040708.htm

Your tickets are $85, $76, $44, and $22. As has been noted before, that top Detroit ticket price of $85 won't even get you out of the upper level at Pepsi Center.

 

[mr gib]

can you imagine the owners glee right now

 

[Scoogs]

Still, that's one exceptional event. Overall, we in Denver (along with the folks in Toronto, I'm sure) would kill to have the prices you have in Detroit.

http://www.freep.com/sports/redwings/metro8e_20040708.htm

Your tickets are $85, $76, $44, and $22. As has been noted before, that top Detroit ticket price of $85 won't even get you out of the upper level at Pepsi Center.

So... envious... I can't believe it... More successful team in Detroit, and ours are still more than double Detroits...

 

[Poddubny]

Still, that's one exceptional event. Overall, we in Denver (along with the folks in Toronto, I'm sure) would kill to have the prices you have in Detroit.

http://www.freep.com/sports/redwings/metro8e_20040708.htm

Your tickets are $85, $76, $44, and $22. As has been noted before, that top Detroit ticket price of $85 won't even get you out of the upper level at Pepsi Center.

In Buffalo, season tix run from $69 to $10. And they've started a variable pricing plan that will see ticket prices fluctuate based on the opponent.

 

[Scoogs]

can you imagine the owners glee right now

If any owner is unhappy with this deal, they should honestly be shot.

 

[ColoradoHockeyFan]

So... envious... I can't believe it... More successful team in Detroit, and ours are still more than double Detroits...

Sucks, doesn't it. But this entire thing is simply driven by market demand.

 

[Icey]

So if I interpret this article correctly:

Teams...

Reducing Ticket Prices: 11 Teams

Not Reducing Prices: 6 Teams

To Be Determined: 13 Teams

So right now just over 1/3rd of the league plans on reducing ticket prices. I would imagine that at least half of the 13 TBD teams will also reduce prices. So that total would be 17 to 18 teams to reduce pricing.

Furthermore no teams said they were going to raise prices.

So for those who said that this CBA will not have a direct impact on ticket pricing *cough* Spector *cough* I will have to disagree. Multiple team statements in this article directly link the outcome of the CBA to what their actions will be in regards to ticket pricing.

He really wasn't wrong. He said that ticket prices are a result of what the market will bear and supply and demand not player salaries. And that is still correct. If it were based soley off of player salaries then no team would be lowering ticket prices until they knew for sure what the salaries would be. And then teams such as Colorado, Toronto, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Dallas would be cutting their prices by 40-50% since that is how much their payroll will drop by. But that is not what is happening at all. Teams realize they need to win the fans back. They know, with the exception of a few teams, the fans will not be lining up at the door to buy ST at the same price as they did last season. So the prices are a result of what the market will bear and supply and demand and very little to do with payroll.

Ticket prices are not dropping because of the CBA they are dropping because of the damage the lock-out has done to this sport. Wait two years and lets see how many teams raise their prices back up to the 2003-04 season prices.

 

[reckoning]

All Bettman promised to achieve from this lockout was affordable ticket prices?

He's going to set the market in all thirty cities?



I did not know this.



I thought he was trying to achieve cost certainty in order to keep all thirty teams alive going forward in the medium to longterm future.




My bad.

Why should those poor kind-hearted philahthropists feel the need to pass along any of their savings from the new CBA to the greedy, selfish fans who support the teams?

 

[Jaded-Fan]

Where are you located, Jaded-Fan?

As stated, Pittsburgh. Bought a full season, 43 games, for $645 a seat (two seats), $15 a ticket. http://www.pittsburghpenguins.com/tickets/season.php Those prices are fully half of what the same seats cost in 2003-3. And other areas are also half of prices from 2002-3, the C section end seating has been reclassified and prices lowered to one half as well. The one thing that I am not sure of is whether these prices will fall even more. I think that these prices reflect the lowering from 2002-3 to 2003-4. Mario promised across the board lowering of prices so these may even fall more.

They are really not bad tickets at all. Certainly not for slightly more than the cost of a movie. On the seating chart they are first row of the overhang right over the goal the Pens shoot at 2 periods of 3. F-16. The Pens have nice feature on their site, that some other teams have as well, where you click on the arena, then the location of the seat, and it shows you a photo-view of your view.

 

[KL*]

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/shownews.jsp?content=h070504A

For anyone needing help with translating the Colorado response:


Translation: "We've never reduced prices, we've only raised them, and in spite of the fact that few--if any--teams have as high a true average ticket price as we do, it's hard to imagine why we would lower them now."

The Avalanche are an NHL hockey team. NHL hockey teams are businesses.

My Comcast bill has never dropped either. I am not going to whine about it on a messageboard though.

 

[A Good Flying Bird*]

The Avalanche are an NHL hockey team. NHL hockey teams are businesses.

My Comcast bill has never dropped either. I am not going to whine about it on a messageboard though.

No. WHine about to a congressmen.

Cable is a con

 

[Scoogs]

Cable is a con

Don't get me started... Don't EVEN get me started..

 

[topshelf331]

Colorado's ticket prices aren't bad at all I would think. My season tickets are $58 a seat in the front row of the third bowl. I've been to games in L.A., New York and St. Louis that were much more expensive than that in comparable seating.

I think youve got that wrong on stlouis. There are 24 sections where we only pay $8 per seat per game as season ticket holders. Thats $368 per seat for season tickets. Thats hard to beat. The best seats in the upper bowl(we only have 2 levels) are only $45 a seat. So I dont know where you are getting your totals at.