As previously stated, Louis and I had season tickets for the Caps. I was really surprised at how cheap they were (for season tickets anyway). I had it in my head that they were thousands of dollares (many more than the $2500 a piece that we paid). We didn't have the seats on the glass. We were the mezzanine end balcony 2nd row. Face value for the tickets were $35. These are the same seats that I got for the B's game that we went to. Except that I paid twice that. Full season plan for those seats puts it at $17 a game. Not bad at all I think. I have no idea what the price for season tickets at Boston are but I'm sure that they are not as reasonable as the Caps.
I agree with the cuts that you would make. I know that the Whalers were undersupported in Hartford so a move made sense (also that would make the markets way too close together). It's strange when you talk about teams that are close together and kind of hits a place in my heart. The Baltimore Colts left in the dead of winter. Loaded up everything and moved to Indy. It was heartbreaking for every Baltimore Football fan. We saw teams leave other markets and they would have a new team (either through expansion or through a move) and we would be left. Tagliaboo always said that it was because the Baltimore Market couldn't support a team (because Washington was so close and that it would take away from the Washington fans (The Washington Redskins don't actually play in Washington (haven't in a long time) the play in Maryland in the same area that the Caps/Bullets played before they built the new rink)). Well Baltimore got a team. They seem to be thriving and the Redskins haven't filed for Chapter 11 yet. The one thing that this tangient says is that if the market is a large market and there are people that are passionate about something (Baltimore is a football town (they cant' fill up that baseball stadium to save their life)) they will come. So the Seattle team (even though it's pretty close to Vancouver) makes sense.
Here are a couple more.
1) Move or cut Phoenix. They have the worst attendance in the league despite having one of hockey's greatest at the helm. They have the most PIM in the league too.
2)Move or cut a team out of Florida (and let it be the Panthers). They were dumb enough to trade away Luongo so let them be gone.
3) Get rid of the Thrashers. No more second chances (this rule would not apply to places that actually have ice). Why did the Flames move?
4)Do people actually watch the Blue Jackets or the Blues? Maybe move them their team name is too similar.
5)They shouldn't move a team to a market that has never had a hockey team. Apparently the Stars move to Dallas was something of a phenomonen but that's it.
6) Move the Devils. They are building a new rink in Newark which will create the New York triangle of hockey.
7) Move the teams out of L.A. They lost all their football teams. Besides I still can't take a team seriously born out of a movie that starred Emilo Estevez.
Markets that I think could support a team: put a couple in Canada (the birthplace of hockey). Maybe they can put one in Saskatchewan and call them the Bigfoots
. Wisconisn (Milwaukee) didn't they win the NCAA last year?, and Seattle.
I also forgot to say that rigging electrodes to refs sounds like a great idea. There should be a penalty for refs who intefere with the games. There was a game that I was watching where someone on the team had a breakaway (not clean but could have easily beaten the blue liner that was back there) if only the ref didn't hold him and then make him fall. It was crazy. All the refs and linesman should have to sit out for 2 mins then there would be 2 minutes of no holds barred hockey. That would draw the people in.
It's really nice to have someone to talk about this with. Thank you for being my hockey friend. BTW sorry I haven't sent your soap. I will get to the Post Office today and ship it off.
