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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
No it doesn’t. Housing and entertainment tickets work on two very different systems. None of what you said here is relevant.
And it’s a bit more complicated than “basic supply and demand” (which is always a funny phrase to watch people trot out). One of the biggest and most obvious differences is that the NHL cannot charge the maximum the market will bear if that pricing does exclude families (like WhiteOut said) or puts them out of competition with other entertainment options. Ensuring people can afford to bring their kids to games is essential in building out the next generation of ticket buyers. This is already an issue for most major sports, where younger generations are happier experiencing them solely through a screen or not at all. It’s a problem that will get worse the longer it goes on, especially for hockey where actually playing the game is also prohibitively expensive for a lot of families.
The NHL can’t just follow “basic supply and demand.” A lot of businesses can’t. There are things like building and protecting culture and a future customer base that needs to be factored in, which includes pricing structures and accessibility.
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Well it's a little more complicated on the other side than simply pushing up prices as high as they can. They are just as aware as you are that future demand is part of the equation. And it isn't like there aren't multiple tiers of seat pricing. Also, there is more than one way to grow demand for future generations, including different platforms of streaming and online viewing, merchandising (lots of new and variant uniforms), etc.
So yeah, simply saying that they are pricing out families is pretty naive. It has also been a constant complaint for decades, and yet we're all still here.