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Originally Posted by strombad
They need a new rink, but not for the reasons you're supposing.
Calgary needs a new rink because theirs is outdated, and it generally affects the revenue streams outside of hockey.
Winnipeg needs a new rink because even if they sell out their current rink their attendance would rank in the bottom 10 teams of the league.
Higher need: Winnipeg
If the average ticket price for those 4500-6000 seats they are missing is say... $150 (assuming none of them would be lower bowl, etc) then Winnipeg is costing themselves approximately 675,000-900,000 in revenue EVERY GAME. That's generally over 30 MILLION dollars they aren't getting every year.
That's downright embarrassing. It's one thing if you have the space and the people don't come, it's another if you don't even have the space.
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Originally Posted by New Era
That is true. Let's rework the numbers then, based on the average ticket prices and potential revenues just from seat sales.
Flames have a capacity of 19,289 @ 262.10 X 41 games = $207,281,522.90
Jets have a capacity of 15,004 @ 276.69 X 41 games = $170,209,727.16
A difference of $37,071,795.75. Off by a little less than $6M.
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Where are you guys getting these numbers from? (1)check the price list...how many seats in the dome cost $200+ per game? I doubt the average face value per seat is anywhere near $260 a game (2) the flames have 14k season tickets that they get season ticket price revenues on, they're not getting door prices on 75%+ of their seats, but sell them at a discount to sths (3) the Jets are missing the most marginal seats...so $25 a ticket. So why you're basing numbers on avg pricing is a mystery (4) an average stadium in the NHL seats around 17k, the dome fits more because they have fewer luxury seats...and luxury seats are the highest revenue seats, so the flames are have more cheap seats but less expensive seats (5) Winnipeg purposely wanted a small stadium to increase scarcity value because it lowers the likelihood people will give up their season seats b/c when their is a wait list there is a lower probability of getting the seats back when the team so good: aka contributes to a stronger primary market and gives more stability when the team sucks. The largest value of having season tickets is the playoff rights, and the value increases with the length of the wait list.