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Hockeytown my @$$

Pearls&StonesPearls&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 PainPhantom 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 KidSlip Kid Posts: 1,175
    if your ass is hockeytown than i need a new sport to follow
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  • blackredyellowblackredyellow 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 TribeStrangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    people have to decide between the Pistons and the Wings
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  • butterfly1butterfly1 Posts: 372
    Anr then there's that whole octupus tossing thing.
  • kenshuntkenshunt London, Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,863
    Prolly the fans that do show up are from Windsor On, Canada
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  • canuck_rockercanuck_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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  • HailHailVitalogyHailHailVitalogy Posts: 5,413
    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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  • scot88scot88 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 slimjackrabbit slim Posts: 564
    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.
  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    [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.
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    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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  • prljamgirlprljamgirl 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 becksmall 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
  • dirtdirt 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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  • given2fly10given2fly10 Posts: 485
    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&StonesPearls&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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  • Motown322Motown322 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 PattersonSkitch 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.
  • MotorCityMikeMotorCityMike 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.
  • prljamgirlprljamgirl 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.
  • xavier mcdanielxavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,305
    hasn't there all been a lot of job loss in michigan? therefore less disposable income to give to the millionaire owners.
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  • Pearls&StonesPearls&Stones Posts: 585
    MotorCityMike wrote:


    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.



    Then why aren't those seats available on Ticketmaster? If the economy is bad, I understand. But you can't even buy those tickets. Why is that?
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  • NOCODE#1NOCODE#1 Posts: 1,477
    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.
    its the style of play Detroit plays that their fans dont agree with. when you win as much as the wings do the fans have a right to be snobby. people from philly know nothing about this btw
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  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,689
    NOCODE#1 wrote:
    its the style of play Detroit plays that their fans dont agree with. when you win as much as the wings do the fans have a right to be snobby. people from philly know nothing about this btw
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  • drivingrldrivingrl Posts: 1,448
    Well, it's like I said - I would poke fun at Red Wings fans, but at the end of the day, they have to live in Detroit. :D
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  • western pearlwestern pearl Posts: 632
    drivingrl wrote:
    Well, it's like I said - I would poke fun at Red Wings fans, but at the end of the day, they have to live in Detroit. :D

    Have you even been there?
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  • Motown322Motown322 Posts: 465
    No... I'm sure she's never been here. It's an old bit that's been used for years (insert name of city here and presto!!!! instant bad joke)... But I've been to Dallas multiple times, and guess what? She ain't got much room to talk.
  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,156
    I went to my first game at Joe Lewis Areana for game 2 of the Colorado series. I think you will see a lot of empty seats for the first 5-7 minutes into each period because Joe Lewis has about four or five mens restrooms. That is why you see so many people scurrying up the aisles with 3 minutes left in each period.

    It took a whole intermission before me and my buddy made it though the line, and he came pretty close to just grabing an empty cup and using it in front of everybody.

    I live about 6 hours away, so it's tough for me to make it to a game unless it is a Saturday early game.

    Anyway, the only reason I can think of why there would be empty seats is that the big automakers human resource groups must buy them and then just forget about them. The fan base if very knowledgable about the game. They have a great history, and the current team is playing AMAZING hockey right now. Go figure.
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  • drivingrldrivingrl Posts: 1,448
    Motown322 wrote:
    No... I'm sure she's never been here. It's an old bit that's been used for years (insert name of city here and presto!!!! instant bad joke)... But I've been to Dallas multiple times, and guess what? She ain't got much room to talk.

    Yes, I've been to Detroit. Wearing my Stars jersey. :D
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  • dirtdirt Posts: 398
    drivingrl wrote:
    Well, it's like I said - I would poke fun at Red Wings fans, but at the end of the day, they have to live in Detroit. :D

    If I had to move to that side of the state, I sure as heck wouldn't mind living in Royal Oak, Grosse Pointe, Bloomfield Hills, or Birmingham -- just to name a few. My guess is you don't really know too much about Detroit. The area/city are not as bad as you think.

    And yeah, it is Hockeytown, so how bad can that be??? :D
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