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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Are you a STH?
My tickets cost $10k for the pair (and some people pay double that), rising at about 5% per year. Which is my choice to pay, obviously.
The experience, for that $10k, includes way over-crowded concourses, ridiculous bathroom lines, freezing cold water in the bathrooms, terrible concessions, small seats with too little leg room, and little to nothing in the way of restaurants and other establishments around the rink for before and after.
I would not say those are minor issues. If you are a STH and feel that way, that's fine. But I get tired of people who aren't - who watch games for free and feel they deserve a team - telling me those aren't big deals.
If you want people to buy tickets and support having a team here, you have to offer them reasonable value for their money. And when I compare the experience at the Saddledome to that of any other rink I have been to, well there is no comparison. It's embarrassing.
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I don't know. I brought my Dad up to Edmonton for the last Flames/Oilers game, and we were both in shock at the lack of concourse concession options (at least at the 2nd deck concourse), as well as bathroom and beer lines that were arguably worse than some I've experienced at the Saddledome. Oh, and the seats were smaller and much tighter.