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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
Exchange rate plays a big role for sure. Don't have formal data source, but the math is pretty easy to do even to get directional.
Looks like Average Flames ticket price is $77 CDN or $59 bucks US. Average would be the right number to take for this calculation also, assuming the average is calculated correctly on all tickets sold.
Saddle dome capacity: 19,238
19,238 x $59US x 41 home games = $46.5M USD
NHL Salary Cap (to which the Flames are tight) = $81.5M USD
As stated, it's far more complicated than that, tones of revenue streams missing, but also tones of expenses missing. Point being, selling out the Dome for 41 home dates barely gets the team past 1/2 of the on ice Players Salaries. So I'm sure profits are slim if any, and totally puts a light on why teams might try to push for playoff dates, that gate revenue has to be gold.
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You don't really think a pint of C of Haze is actually worth $11.50 or the crummy nachos with plastic cheese are actually worth $8.00 or whatever they are going for, do you? The fact the team is actually halfway to covering player salaries without even getting into TV revenue, F&B sales, advertising and merchandise sales (all of which are enormous and typically not well reported) says a lot about the need vs desire element of raising ticket prices quite substantially once again.
Do I think the Flames are rolling in profit when it is all said and done, no. But if things were that tight, the team certainly wouldn't be up against the cap every year.