When I first bought my season tickets, back in 2004, my friend and I were probably paying about 1400$ per seat at the time for a total of $2800 roughly. Beers at the time were 5$ each.
Today, our seats are roughly 6600$ for both.
So in 14 years, the beers more than doubled, and the cost per seat more than doubled. When I first had season tickets, I was single. Now I have 3 kids and a wife. To take one of my kids to the game, its costs me around $200 by the time we get home. Its insane, especially considering the product has diminished, more so in the last five years.
It is very difficult to justify this cost year after year, and to be honest, I am enjoying the games less and less every year right now, yet the cost in increasing. There is a lot less emotion in hockey, and less entertainment value IMO. I love the speed of the game, but the heart and emotion is lacking a lot of the time, which really irritates me most nights.
I was at the game on thursday vs Pitt. In a 9-1 game, the Flames didn't even show any emotion. Zero f$%^s given. I was embarrassed to be a Flames fan to be honest. Our "Core" group of players, is probably the softest, and least emotional group in the NHL, outside of Tkatchuk.
Things like this, is why the Dome does not fill up on the regular anymore. Price point is one thing, but if we had a great product, the seats would be full regardless of the cost.
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