^ I walked straight in to the dome during a game in maybe 1999 or 2000 without tickets, between the first and second, because I was late, thought I may get tix outside for a song, but the scalpers and door minders were gone, security was quite a bit less than it is now, and the material business was done for the night. Blew my mind, just walking in impeded into a NHL rink mid game
That’s how dire things were
Since then I have had seasons tix for many seasons, saw interest in the team rise and fall, after years eventually dropped them, and the world has changed. Now there is a lot more structure around managing crowd assembly that prohibits that situation from occurring again, but by and large the good will from 2004 is finally reduced to pretty much nothing
Lots of additional security staff going through the motions. Kind of like the Flames last season
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