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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Was hoping to come down to see the baby Flames this year. Sucks that they aren't there until the last two games of the season.
How are the Barons marketed there? OKC used to be fairly hockey crazed when the Blazers were active.
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The Barons are horribly marketed... They are trying some gimmick of giving away 12 cars.... not a chance to win one but literally giving away a car almost every Saturday. Still we are only averaging about 3000 fans. The deal is they don't cater to anyone. I suggested selling colleges cheap ticket packs and having college night. Their answer is NO! If we do that it cheapens the product on the ice and that's why the Blazers went under.
The Blazers went under because Bob Funk wanted an AHL team IMO. Yeah the last few years there werent many fans. I remember selling out the arena when I was younger. I didnt like Hockey but I loved fights and people loved coin beer. When the Blazers won the CHL that arena was rockin for a few years afterwards.
As I said I have tried to help and give suggestions. It never helps, Im not saying I know a lot about hockey and promotion but I am saying I know more about hockey than most people in Oklahoma ( or Barons fans) and apparently more about promotion than the Barons
.... for example at the Equipment Sale I was talking to someone who did or does head up the Season Ticket Holder's committee ( or at least said he did) and he was talking about how much he knew and yada yada yada.. When it came down to it , he had no clue who Alexander Ovechekin is. " Oh I have heard the name , does he play for Philly?" WTF ?