Hockeytown my @$$

Pearls&Stones
Pearls&Stones Posts: 585
edited May 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
How can they call Detroit "Hockeytown" with all those empty seats clearly visible in the front sections during the playoffs? BTW there are still standing room tickets available for tonight's game.
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  • Phantom Pain
    Phantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    Tickets too high for Detroit-ians ?

    Don't they have like the highest ticket prices in the league ?
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  • Slip Kid
    Slip Kid Posts: 1,175
    if your ass is hockeytown than i need a new sport to follow
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    It's what you get when your team wins every year and prices keep going up. Look at the Atlanta Braves.
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  • Strangest Tribe
    Strangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    people have to decide between the Pistons and the Wings
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  • butterfly1
    butterfly1 Posts: 372
    Anr then there's that whole octupus tossing thing.
  • kenshunt
    kenshunt London, Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,863
    Prolly the fans that do show up are from Windsor On, Canada
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  • canuck_rocker
    canuck_rocker Posts: 108
    Phantom Pain wrote:
    Tickets too high for Detroit-ians ?

    Don't they have like the highest ticket prices in the league ?

    I'm pretty sure Toronto has the highest ticket prices followed by Vancouver. I saw the stat somewhere but I don't have the site. Seriously Canucks ticket prices are insane, I spent $160 on a ticket in the upper corner of GM Place in Round 2 last year.

    And really how could Detroit fans get bored of winning?? And really Minnesota is Hockeytown, those guys support hockey like crazy from highschool through to the NHL. We should consider making them our 11th province :D
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  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,020
    Phantom Pain wrote:
    Tickets too high for Detroit-ians ?

    Don't they have like the highest ticket prices in the league ?

    doesnt stop the rangers games being sold out every game

    hockey town is deffinantly between New York, Toronto, Minnesota, and Edmonton
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  • scot88
    scot88 Posts: 217
    HailHailVitalogy wrote:
    doesnt stop the rangers games being sold out every game

    hockey town is deffinantly between New York, Toronto, Minnesota, and Edmonton

    As much as I love the Rangers and seeing them play at MSG, I can't bring myself to call New York a hockey town. It's so diverse that the % of the population (8 million) that actually gives a shit about the team is probably small (or at least a lot smaller than any Canadian city.)
  • jackrabbit slim
    jackrabbit slim Posts: 565
    HailHailVitalogy wrote:
    doesnt stop the rangers games being sold out every game

    hockey town is deffinantly between New York, Toronto, Minnesota, and Edmonton

    i think you need a few more canadian teams on this list. Canada's spotscenter leads with hockey playoffs. Our stupid sportscenter leads with the friggin' NBA.
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    [quote="canuck_rocker Seriously Canucks ticket prices are insane, I spent $160 on a ticket in the upper corner of GM Place in Round 2 last year.
    [/quote"]


    it is brutal here for a game, you are right. the thing that i did last year is go 15 minutes before the game and if the canucks are doing shitty at the time, you will get in for 40 each. it doesnt work all the time. my girl and i go to games opportunistically, when they are losing, its cheap, when they are winning, go to a bar. prices need to come down here.

    i did score 14th row lowers for 150$ for the crosby game though!
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  • prljamgirl
    prljamgirl Edmonton, AB Posts: 602
    Pearls&Stones wrote:
    empty seats clearly visible in the front sections during the playoffs? BTW there are still standing room tickets available for tonight's game.



    This would never happen in Edmonton.....playoffs or not. We've had over 100 consecutive sellouts and even had a few bad losing streaks in there, still filled the place every night.
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    prljamgirl wrote:
    This would never happen in Edmonton.....playoffs or not. We've had over 100 consecutive sellouts and even had a few bad losing streaks in there, still filled the place every night.


    Next year I am coming up for a GAME!!! I can't believe I missed out this year and just think how great our Oil will be next season ?!?! :D


    Oy the Red Wings... and don't even get me started on their fans :p
  • dirt
    dirt Posts: 398
    Pearls&Stones wrote:
    How can they call Detroit "Hockeytown" with all those empty seats clearly visible in the front sections during the playoffs? BTW there are still standing room tickets available for tonight's game.
    Don't take it to be so literal. It's a tag a marketing firm came up with back in the 90's. Hockey runs deeeep in Michigan and Detroit. There's a lot more hockey going on in the state besides the Wings! But really, which NHL team has been more successful than Detroit over the past twenty years?
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  • given2fly10
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    blackredyellow wrote:
    It's what you get when your team wins every year and prices keep going up. Look at the Atlanta Braves.
    braves never ever sell out there were tix on sale back when they were in the world sersis. game day that is
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  • Pearls&Stones
    Pearls&Stones Posts: 585
    Now I certainly don't want to bash the folks in Detroit. I went there last year for a Tigers game early in the year (during the Wings and Pistons playoff runs) and I must say Detroit is one of the best sports cities I have ever been in. The people seem genuinely concerned about each team, which is good. But dozens of visible empty seats in the conference finals is ridiculous. I went to Ticketmaster today just to see if there were any seats available, and all that was left was standing room. Someone has all those seats and isn't using them?
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  • Motown322
    Motown322 Posts: 465
    prljamgirl wrote:
    This would never happen in Edmonton.....playoffs or not. We've had over 100 consecutive sellouts and even had a few bad losing streaks in there, still filled the place every night.

    Not a lot of competition for the sports fan's dollar up there, though... the Oilers and the Eskimos seasons don't really overlap.
  • Skitch Patterson
    Skitch Patterson Posts: 642
    They officially sold out 452 games- more than 10 years worth before last seasons playoffs... I understand "sell outs" are somewhat dubious, but no other team can claim that...

    and the fact is, the red wings have been an NHL elite team for nearly 12 years. 12 fucking years. I was in 7th grade when their dominance was beginning.... i now have a house, wife and child... and gray hair.... Unfortunately complacency can set in among the fans after years and years of success.
  • MotorCityMike
    MotorCityMike Posts: 73
    My not so random thoughts on this thread...

    Someone's been reading Mitch Albom or listening too much to Don Cherry, i think.

    yeah, it was a marketing ploy as stated earlier, a damn awesome one, obviously.

    I remember Minnesota's ugly ass green, yellow, and white seated stadium being pretty damn empty before YOU LOST YOUR FRANCHISE.

    Didn't some writer for a Denver paper state that after the 'lanche disposed of the Wings in round two that it would then be known as "Loserville"? Yeah...about that cute little team in the Rockies...

    Michigan's economy is HIT. Those bums in the olde english D sold a record amount of tix before the season began, and the Pistons are playing good playoff basketball right now, too. Yeah, lotsa options with as little cash to make the choice with as ever right now.

    Joe Louis Arena might look a little empty at the start of games, but i don't notice it later on. Anyone thats ever been there can attest that its the shittiest venue to get into ever. There are like 10 doors in a row on one side of the building and thats about it.

    Canadian franchises are so cute. You fans do deserve better than you get. All teams in any any sport that do any 'white-out' of any color are ripping off the old Jets and should be embarrassed, cause they did it best. i'm not sure you're ever going to see a Stanley Cup again. It's been 15 years..sheesh.

    I'm usually pretty pessimistic, but i can't see the Wings not winning it this year; they're just playing too well.
  • prljamgirl
    prljamgirl Edmonton, AB Posts: 602
    Motown322 wrote:
    Not a lot of competition for the sports fan's dollar up there, though... the Oilers and the Eskimos seasons don't really overlap.


    Even if there was, it still wouldn't happen.....I guarantee it.

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