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Originally Posted by stone hands
The market is Calgary. The product is the flames. Unless we see a young guns type collapse of the on ice product, cse can charge whatever the hell they want and it won't matter
"Market forces" have no impact in a monopoly
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I completely disagree with the bolded above. Would you pay $200 to go watch the Flames vs. Coyotes on a Tuesday night? As a STH with decent seats, both in price and location, I can tell you it's extremely difficult to sell this game even below STH cost. There's always a price at which the market won't bear.
You do raise a good point though that in a monopoly, there's a distortion in the market and no doubt we see this distortion in ticket prices. Though I would also point out that while the Flames clearly have a monopoly on the pro hockey market - they compete with all other forms of entertainment in our city.
I will continue to believe in the theory that a ticket tax is a burden on the Flames, until someone can convince me otherwise
