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Attendance issues at whatever our arena is named now
Pimlach replied to #freejame's topic in The Aud Club
No on the bolded. You not tracking me at all. Of course the schedule is independent of weather. My thought is make all Saturday matinees “kids day” with special pricing, giveaways, and special events. Grow fans. The rest of your tome is about counting tickets. I am pointing out that the people in attendance is typically much less than actual seats sold. Thus is a problem. Paying for a seat and not using it, or being able to re-sell the ticket, or even give it away - these are problems. These are list opportunities at best, snd detachment of the potential fan base more importantly. -
Physical play including fighting are missing from the game...
Pimlach replied to LabattBlue's topic in The Aud Club
Your classic avatar of Eddie Shack riding Gerry Ehman already puts you in the dinosaur category whether you like fighting in the game or not. Shack electrified the crowd in The Aud in those first 2 years. Not in the way that Gilbert did, but he really was just so painful to play against. He could score, check, instigate, fight - you never knew what he was going to do. Add in the fact that we traded him straight up for Rene Robert. I like to see a good scrap every now and then but those days are gone and not coming back. -
Attendance issues at whatever our arena is named now
Pimlach replied to #freejame's topic in The Aud Club
Paid attendance figures are much higher than who actually shows up. I went to the Florida Saturday matinee game. They sold over 11,000 seats but had maybe 8,000 show up. I was expecting to see a lot of young hockey fans and I was wrong. It wasn't even a kids day matinee, so why bother having the game in the middle of day on a Saturday when people were out enjoying the last good weather of the Fall season. Tone deaf marketing, or maybe no marketing at all.