I Got to Get You in My Suitcase. It's Duty Free...
by blurr1974 on Jun 5, 2009 5:00 AM EDT
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PrintIt's Friday! Let's kick the day off right. In honor of MSP and his likeness to Gaz Coombes, here's some Supergrass for you to tap your toes to. Join me after the video for your usual link explosion.
- Although unverified (or is it? I didn't look too hard truth be told...) Leafs Leaks says Brad May is making a return in the Blue and White.
- More on the Sedins from Norman James
- Pavel Datsyuk let's slip the secret of becoming a Stanley Cup champion and world class athlete.
- TSM asks the unmentionable, thinks the unaskable, mentions the unthinkable. Holy mackinaw! I can't talk....
- Our own Euro insider Sleza broke this a few days back. The NY Times gives us the details on SEL's rejection of the NHL's player transfer proposal.
- For those of us on the wrong side of the 49th parallel, the NBC and NHL staying together is better than nothing.
- The much missed Loser Domi finally catches a dial tone on her modem and fills us in on a Pens trip to Denny's.
- Like a line from an overly sentimental and all around average movie, TO Sports spouts the mantra that could save the Coyotes.
- Down Goes Brown likes to show a lot of things happenin' at once.
- On Frozen Blog puts the word out on a worthy cause. Finally, a good reason to use my Twitter account...
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Oh, and the Pens won, too. WOOOO
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jun 5, 2009 8:15 AM EDT reply actions
Food for Thought
I keep hearing how people would love a second team in the GTA because Leafs tickets are too expensive.
Does anyone really think an ownership team in Hamilton won’t try to exploit a hockey mad market and price whatever the market can bear?
I mean I don’t think they will be as expensive as the Leafs (at least not to start off) but I can’t see it being significantly cheaper.
I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it. - Dogbert
Well the Leafs average ticket price is $76.15. As a comparison to other teams nearby Ottawa’s is $48.82 and Buffalo’s is $36.43. The league average is $49.66.
I figure a team in Hamilton can charge about the league average, more expensive than Buffalo and Ottawa, but at a significant discount from the Leafs.
More important than ticket prices though is beer prices courtesty of Puck Daddy . Toronto is $5.88 for 16 oz or $0.37 an ounce, Ottawa is $4.69 for 14oz or $0.34 an ounce and Buffalo is $5.00 for 16 oz or $0.31 an ounce. The League average is $6.06 for 16 ounces. At least that’s one area we’re not getting hosed.
(All figures in USD)
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Hamilton? It will be cheaper. Significantly? Probably not.
Second team in GTA cheaper? Yes. Significantly? No. Just a little bit? Maybe.
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yeah, if Toronto’s averge is $76, Hamilton’s will be $65, and a 2nd team in the GTA would be $70 (or exactly the same as the Leafs if they’re anywhere near downtown). they’re not going to tap into a ‘hockey-mad’ market and not milk it for all it’s worth
What about the beer/
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No, Not Possible
Haven’t you heard? This second team is going to be almost as profitable as the Leafs while delivering the average hockey fan from the evil clutches of MLSE.
I kind of want another team in Southern Ontario/the GTA just to laugh at the people that think it’ll be different. What’s Balsillie’s big renovations about? Getting 50 more luxury boxes. Who buys those? Why unemployed steel workers of course.
/rolls eyes.
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the main reason I want it (other than another chance to buy tickets to see leaf games) is to expose the bandwagoners from the Leafs, and more importantly from the Sens who used to be Leaf fans before that.
flush out the rats
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by JaredFromLondon on Jun 5, 2009 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions
exactly. “no one could possibly be as greedy as MLSE!”. except any other owner who that’s allowed to operate in the same market.
People act as if MLSE is the only greedy corporation, as if “supply and demand” means nothing.
Gordon Gecko “Greed….is good”
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Guh.
I don’t want to sign Brad May and give up another draft pick. His fighting days are over, and he’ll never put the puck in the net. What a plug.
38 GP with the Leafs. 1G, 1A.
I think any of the new free agency signings or draft picks would better fit his role on the team, and probably with a lot more energy too.
May’s reached the 1,000 game milestone (1,001 to be exact), I think it’s time to hang ’em up.
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by PPP on Jun 5, 2009 9:44 AM EDT up reply actions
Gotta be safe. Don’t want to pull a muscle.
Or do I….?
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just not your own
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by JaredFromLondon on Jun 5, 2009 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions
You betcha
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jun 5, 2009 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions
someone make her a spy avatar
"Life is just a place where we spend time between games. Hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death." - Fred Shero
by Karina on Jun 6, 2009 1:31 AM EDT up reply actions
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