I'm honestly surprised people are willing to pay what NHL teams in Canada are asking, particularly since HD TV came along.
It's hard to beat going to a great game where the hockey is meaningful and your team comes out with a win, but paying a couple hundred bucks - much more if you are paying for a family - to watch fat and sassy millionaires go for a leisurely skate and lose in glorious fashion (which happens a fair bit of the regular season at least) seems pretty crazy to me. Especially when you can put that a few games' worth of money into a nice TV, fridge full of beer, delivery pizza, and you get full authority to screen the other patrons.
But that's just me.
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