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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
That's your right - and I don't disagree that those upper deck seats are far from ideal.
The question is how badly do you want season tickets? Right now the team sucks, and you're probably going to have an easier time than at any point since 2004. If you want to roll the dice and keep waiting, hoping you get offered something good, then so be it. But it can be a 3 year wait (or it was for Malcolm). And if the Flames become a hot ticket, you're going to be looking at a much longer wait.
If you want to get to your "optimal" seating as soon as possible, I'd say buy the bad seats, sell them off during the season if you don't want them, but get yourself listed as a STH as quickly as possible. After that, life gets much easier.
Plus, you'll want to be in on the ground floor for the new building when it comes.
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I still find going to the games > not going to the games. I have seasons in section 306 row 5 and love them. Sure the sightlines aren't the greatest but I can watch the play develop and keep an eye on players - things I can't do watching on even the biggest screen TV.
There is only one row in front of me and it is usually unoccupied so I don't have to worry about people blocking my view. Plus I am almost directly at center ice.
The atmosphere of a hockey game is simply amazing. I never cease to be awed by it, I rarely ever got to go to games as a child and therefore try to never take that experience for granted.
I was on the wait list for lower bowl seats and was offered the "while you wait" seats last season. I have since taken myself off the wait list and chosen to keep these seats permanently with the hope of moving into the first 3 rows at some point. At the end of the day even in the "Press Level" I am still watching the same hockey game in the same building as the people with better seats, and saving tons of $$$ in the process.
And IMO going to a hockey game is better than not going to one. Even having just moved, I am hanging onto my season ticket rights and just selling the games to a buddy, so I can come back for the playoffs
Just my .02